Musician Quotes · Page 44

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.

— Freddie Mercury

The amount of exposure you get in India as a musician in Bollywood is so much better than what one gets independently.

— Amit Trivedi

You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste.

— Bradford Cox

Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever?

— Henry David Thoreau

Once the jazz musician learns all the fundamentals they can keep track of a lot of choices in an instant.

— Sheena Iyengar

Success is nice, but it shouldn't be the only reason why you're a musician.

— Chester Bennington

Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.

— Jimmy Page

The internet has a way of mainstreaming everything. Any artist, any musician, any sexual kink, any political view point, it's all there.

— Arthur Jones

I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I…

— Natalie Merchant

The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and…

— H. L. Mencken

I always wanted to be a musician, 100 percent, my whole life. I went to school, I did music theory, I did…

— Adria Petty

The artist knows he must be alone to create; the writer, to work out his thoughts; the musician, to compose; the saint,…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Im just lucky to have great parents. My sisters an actress. My brothers a musician. I found it hard growing up in…

— Grace Gummer

But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and…

— Geddy Lee

I loved the atmosphere of the dance studios - the wooden floors, the big mirrors, everyone dressed in pink or black tights,…

— Suzanne Vega

Surrounding myself with people I enjoy being with made the sessions effortless. Everyone came prepared and ready to play. All were great…

— Stanley Clarke

I didn't know if it would be a successful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as…

— Bruce Springsteen

When you get in the middle of a career and you're successful, people come and offer you things. My biggest fear was…

— Tim McGraw

She has her own glamour, Willy lad. All poets do, all the bards and artists, all the musicians who truly take the…

— Emma Bull

These people shred. That's what I was saying about Nashville-you can go to an open mic night at the Holiday Inn and…

— Lzzy Hale

Love is infectious. You know, God is infectious-God flowing through us and us being little-baby creators and s--. But His energy and…

— Kanye West

You discover over time that music can be overwhelming. Unless the musicians involved understand this they can lose audiences. Spontaneity and improvisation…

— Bennie Maupin

I was not part of the golden age of the record industry, when musicians and producers were making real money. So I…

— Gaspar Claus

I know some people really try to avoid music when they're writing and recording, but I am very inspired by so many…

— Devendra Banhart

I'm a horrible musician, but I've been fortunate enough to play great songs.

— Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein

Everything I hear influences me. I can't tell you all my influences as a musician.

— Lemmy

I have found that the best cure for self pity is to do something to help someone else.

— Carl Orr

We wouldn't be artists, writers, painters, musicians, if we weren't sensitive.

— Wayne Coyne

When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba.

— Compay Segundo

I see love in black and white. Passion in shades of “gris”. But when it comes to you and I, color is…

— Lady Gaga

I am an observer of life, a non-participant who takes no sides. I am in the regimented society, but not of it.

— Moondog

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

— Henry Moore

Apart from being a playback singer for films, I'm also an independent musician.

— Adnan Sami

I love anyone who breaks the rules, and musicians always break the rules - in an aggressive way.

— Donatella Versace

It's important for me to be with a musician or someone who has a creative mind.

— Amy Winehouse

I still have a hard time just calling myself a musician. If I'm talking to somebody and they ask me what I…

— Grant Evans

Any musician in any band - for a really good band - you know your part in the band.

— Duff McKagan

[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.

— Henry Adams

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better…

— Stan Getz

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

— Janis Joplin