Musician Quotes · Page 53

People call me a bedroom electronic musician, which I suppose I am. But I hate most electronic music; I find it really…

— Max Tundra

The music has had a certain quality that people like just because it's a real true expression of how we are as…

— Matt Cameron

When I was 21 or 22, I realized I was never going to be something else - I had to be a…

— Chet Faker

There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.

— Sarah Vaughan

It's funny, there aren't too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There's a few - the really brilliant ones.

— Dave Grohl

I've had my bubblegum years and I did them well. Now it's time to come back as the woman, artist, and musician…

— Irene Cara

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

— Leopold Stokowski

Art was not created as a way to riches. Strive to become a true artist; all else will take care of itself.

— Robert Schumann

As a musician you fall into certain patterns that you're not conscious of, unless you start listening to yourself on tape a…

— Jerry Garcia

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? There is a brotherhood among…

— Pablo Casals

We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in…

— Franz Liszt

Being from a classical environment, I've always been provoked by classical musicians thinking that classical music is so much greater art than…

— Matias Tellez

The marvels of God are not brought forth from one's self. Rather, it is more like a chord, a sound that is…

— Hildegard of Bingen

We're doing all the shows as an eight-piece band. There's so many different kinds of palettes for each film that we've had…

— Stuart A. Staples

Riding a horse is a relationship with a foreign creature, and with musicians it's a similar thing: "OK, I'm going to put…

— Nico Muhly

I like being a musician that's also a fly on the wall. I like people coming in the room and doing what…

— Travis Morrison

The show is coming from the music. I get on the stage with the band, and I communicate with my musicians, and…

— D'Angelo

As musicians it's often difficult. You go to a dinner party and most people treat you like some kind of exotic animal…

— Brian Molko

Then, at age 20, I discovered theater sort of by accident. Quite quickly, theater became more important to me than music. I…

— Cillian Murphy

Music was literally in the air at the time, the Vienna of 1780. Everybody played music, classical music. There were in fact…

— Eric Weiner

I love those moments on stage, on screen and in life when you dispense with language, when you sort of transcend it…

— Cate Blanchett

I wanted to be a musician. I just wanted to be famous because I wanted to escape from what I felt was…

— Anthony Hopkins

I get so much from having the opportunity to interface with the younger people and to bring information to them and to…

— Wynton Marsalis

I am lucky to have the greatest band and when you add a symphony orchestra to the mix it brings all of…

— Olivia Newton-John

There have always been huge musicians and poets in Uruguay, but Uruguay is a well-kept secret.

— Steven Sater

For me, the one thing I've got going for me in terms of my attributes as a musician is vision.

— Devin Townsend

The musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Musicians coming together at a time of need is one of the great traditions in this country. It's like people taking charge.

— Mark O'Connor

When you find a waiter who is a waiter and not an actor, writer, musician or poet, you've found a jewel.

— Andre Soltner

While not a musician, my father was a music agent for years before becoming pop culture icon Famous Amos.

— Shawn Amos

I come to America because if you're a rock 'n' roll musician you should come here every chance you get.

— Gord Downie

As a musician, my job is incredibly easy, and it's a good one, but I've got to work at it occasionally.

— A.C. Newman

I think filmmakers all secretly wanna be musicians and all musicians secretly wanna be filmmakers.

— Win Butler

I speak my mind and come from a place of conscience, as well as have fun as a musician.

— Bonnie Raitt

The hardest thing for a musician to learn is how to play WITH people. That's what made the Basie rhythm section.

— Jo Jones

As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music…

— Edward Gardner

Just because a musician writes a great album doesn't mean they don't want to continue writing great music.

— Carlos Condit

I'm not a good enough musician to like completely master something in a couple of days and turn it around.

— Bear McCreary

I'm a musician - I'm always making music. Kobe Bryant is always playing ball. Well, Snoop Dogg is always recording.

— Snoop Dogg

A girl that's a musician is just such a turn-on. Creative people who are songwriters.

— Calum Hood