Musician Quotes · Page 54

I think musicians are always supportive of each other because they want the groove to keep going on. They just basically want…

— Linda Ronstadt

I don't know whether you [musician] can be all things to everybody, which is why there are different kinds of music.

— Gene Simmons

He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz.

— Oscar Peterson

I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.

— Bobby McFerrin

The beauty of being a musician is writing songs. That's the best part. It's therapeutic and honest and private.

— Gin Wigmore

The creative process for a musician is very different than for a filmmaker. I have an idea, and I can pretty much…

— Mike Patton

Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do.

— Miles Davis

All comics want to be musicians. There's a part of me that wants to be a serious musician. I love songs about…

— Sarah Silverman

“I don't have what it takes to inspire someone to become a "worldly" musician or rapper! I can't use the power God…

— Israelmore Ayivor

The musician lifestyle is not easy for most people to understand. This is something I'm struggling with. When you're on tour, people…

— Sharon Van Etten

God is the ultimate musician. His music transforms your life. The notes of redemption rearrange your heart and restore your life. His…

— Paul David Tripp

Like the musician, the painter, the poet, and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made. And he is…

— Celia Thaxter

There's something really natural to me about being what they call in the business a "hyphenate." Being a musician-actor or writer-musician-actor.

— Lola Kirke

A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the 'Modifier's Madness.'…

— Sufjan Stevens

You have to be open to the energy. If you can open your heart to the energy, that great love energy, of…

— Ray Manzarek

Music reflects the time that it's being made in, and so certainly, the music that's being made in 1986 by a 14-year-old…

— Chrissie Hynde

For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession…

— Anonymous

I'm not that type of musician where I can sit down at the piano and work out a song; I actually really…

— Dave Gahan

We musicians, like everyone else, are numb with sorrow at this murder, and with rage at the senselessness of the crime. But…

— Leonard Bernstein

I don't think I've ever been true to jazz. There's always a kind of jazz element to what I do. There are…

— Jamie Cullum

So if you can make it through, you know you've got something good, you can handle anything. We've been blessed to grow…

— Lizzo

He [Johnny Cash] was so fragile. We invaded Iraq in March, and he died in September. And because his health was so…

— Rosanne Cash

Many people think of me as just a riff guitarist, but I think of myself in broader terms. As a musician I…

— Jimmy Page

You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative; you may play the piano most brilliantly, and not be…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The hills are alive with the sound of music, with songs they have sung for a thousand years.

— Oscar Hammerstein II

Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.

— Ed O'Brien

You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.

— Zakk Wylde

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

— James Weldon Johnson

My new year's resolution: Never be afraid to be kicked in the teeth. Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.

— Lady Gaga

It is just that heavy metal musicians write in minor keys, and when you do that, you frighten people.

— Ronnie James Dio

I don't like heroin, unless you're a jazz musician and then you have to be on it because jazz is the sound…

— John Waters

Chris Martin is more of a musician and hasn't really put himself out there as a television host or anything like that.

— Ian Astbury

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by…

— Ralph Ellison

My father slapped my thighs with a variety of meats until I began to cry and sulked in the corner. I later…

— Thom Yorke

See it in terms of paint. We don't learn subject matter, we learn paint. The musician can play any score that is…

— Helen Van Wyk

I get to focus on being a musician sometimes, and I get to focus on being a vocalist sometimes.

— Britt Daniel

Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no…

— Georgie Fame

Nowadays it's hard to get somebody to invest the time - everybody wants to be famous rather than be a good musician.

— Joe Louis Walker

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue…

— Mike Figgis

Eventually, I had to figure out what the hell I was going to do with my life. I needed to find my…

— Christine McVie