Musician Quotes · Page 50

Music might tame and civilize wild beasts, but 'tis evident it never yet could tame and civilize musicians.

— John Gay

You should play with real musicians; the best music comes from real people interacting with each other.

— John Fogerty

Yes, I'm a musician. I also like to play with others, sometimes more, sometimes less.

— Klaus Schulze

I want to express my ideas through my music and on stage because I'm a musician.

— CL

“That is sacrilegious. You just totally dissed man code. If we don’t have man code, the world will fall apart." Kip Paxton”

— Sasha Marshall

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every…

— Richard Wagner

Making music, if youre a real musician, you carry on, regardless in this world.

— Joe Cocker

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

— Patti Smith

To me, groups of musicians playing together, not fighting each other, but playing a groove together is one of the most exciting…

— Phil Collins

If we want to be musicians, dancers or sportspeople, we can download a certain amount and watch DVDs and read books, but…

— Tenzin Palmo

I can tell for sure, the technologists have made it clear that they don't care about musicians. The arts have been sacrificed…

— T Bone Burnett

My interactions with musicians have been simply that: interactions with musicians. Issues of gender, or anything else beyond the music-making, have in…

— Michael Hersch

I think a politician would be very, very cool to play. Or an American musician of some sort, or like an American…

— Jake Abel

As a musician and a guitar player, I can noodle as well as anybody. But from my background as a session musician,…

— Richie Sambora

The bandleader is a musician trying to sell a mass commodity; and in order to do so successfully he must accommodate himself…

— Artie Shaw

I love playing anyone that does stuff that I don't do. The fun of playing an assassin is that I've never killed…

— Eric McCormack

For me, music is sort of my passion, more so than being an actor. I just never tried to make a career…

— Steve Kazee

To a large degree, we are still bound to the modern scientific spirit, that characterizes reality merely by its material and mechanic…

— Leonardo Boff

I've done an incredible amount of painters. It's an area, for me, where there's more mystery left. I've photographed so many musicians,…

— Anton Corbijn

I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life. Whenever there was a…

— Barry Manilow

I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life. Whenever there was a…

— Barry Manilow

I don't remember things initially when listening to music. Like, I don't remember where I first heard a song, I don't have…

— Stephin Merritt

If you make a suggestion and [musicians] don't know what you mean, you have to be able to do it yourself. I…

— Miles Davis

Well the artists that inspire me were, first of all I would say Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, John Holt, Alton Ellis, Errol…

— Gregory Isaacs

If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it.…

— Paul Stanley

I'm having to cope with the fact that some people might consider me a musician.

— Grant Evans

In my headphones, I led a life of romance and incident and intrigue, none of which had anything to do with the…

— Rob Sheffield

I started out with the guitar and was a studio musician back in the 50s, and then got shot in my finger.

— Dr. John

I never thought being a musician would be something I could make a career out of.

— Vidya Vox

Touring is my favorite part of being a musician. All the places I've traveled and lived affect me in many different ways.…

— Elle King

There's too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.

— Jimmy Page

Musicians more than most people are in the moment. That's the dual nature of that job.

— Gail Zappa

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Music itself is not going to let you down.

— Virgil Thomson

I just love to play and I get a chance to play with other musicians and I jump on it.

— Chad Smith

Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.

— Paul Westerberg

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

— Billy Joel

I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.

— Peabo Bryson

When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by…

— Jonathan Tropper

Critics or musicians who attack me are jealous of my success and the fact that I make people feel so happy.

— Andre Rieu

I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start…

— Damon Albarn