Mum’s a musician. She plays piano and has a beautiful voice, so she understands the creative need. Mum lights up when she… — Alex O'Loughlin Copy Share Image
There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it without power to save… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Any saxophone player will have those influences come through in their music in a very different way. I can listen to the… — Kenny G Copy Share Image
Everything that I do is limitation and complete intuition. I'm a human being. I'm not a musician. I'm not an entertainer. I… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
I think some of the musicians are more like punk rock musicians. It's like an art as opposed to being a musician.… — Wayne Coyne Copy Share Image
For me, the difference between a musician reading an arrangement on a piece of paper, and them closing their eyes and listening… — Jose James Copy Share Image
I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
Every time I see a musician - it doesn't matter what age - that inspires me, there's always a secret little wish… — Chick Corea Copy Share Image
I basically taught myself how to sing and play by copying records, and that's just how it was for me. I know… — Susanna Hoffs Copy Share Image
I think right now is when we need to hear different voices coming out of all parts of the world. You can't… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
I don't think that those things [so called common practice] ever truly existed in the way that we like to believe that… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
Everybody goes up and does something in the private sector that they feel that they can do, and obviously I'm a musician… — Sarah Brightman Copy Share Image
The most important thing to do as an artist is to get out of your comfort zone and work with different people:… — Katie Noonan Copy Share Image
I read to learn, tech myself stuff and teach myself math and do complex formulas, and it's very, very tough, but I… — Jeff Kendrick Copy Share Image
Acting is a creative process, and directing and music. I think creative people - and I take myself as a creative person… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
You know as I started as a shy young conductor, I always wanted to cooperate. To build up the musicians. To help… — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes… — Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Copy Share Image
I like acting and being a musician. It's like comparing apples and oranges. But I really like my day job. I've always… — Dennis Quaid Copy Share Image
I think the world is very much embracing this whole concept of musicians going out and playing their instruments and playing music… — Les Claypool Copy Share Image
The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I… — Moby Copy Share Image
I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
Lately, I'm spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream - almost dissolving into another world, musically. — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
From past experience I wouldn't go out with another musician. With song writing people can be a bit sensitive. Something completely different,… — Nina Nesbitt Copy Share Image
Beginning in the nineteenth century, with performers like Franz Liszt, were musicians who were able to excite an audience and communicate on… — David Finckel Copy Share Image
When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians.… — Sammy Hagar Copy Share Image
I know I'm always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That's for sure. It's about how you… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
I've sort of had an investigatory relationship with being a musician. I really wasn't sure what I wanted to do. I felt… — Eric Avery Copy Share Image
When I lived in Seattle and Oregon, we partied, which is a large reason I don't know drugs or alcohol now because… — Meredith Brooks Copy Share Image
I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
I guess a certain contingent of the musicians in London at the beginning of the '70s were fed up with denim and… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness, I think, only exists when you're a child and… — Andrea Corr Copy Share Image
Being a musician is to live, not to survive. Surviving is going to work every day and giving up your liberty and… — Richard Pinhas Copy Share Image
Athens, much like Austin, is a difficult music scene. There are so many musicians there that it is hard to get gigs… — Corey Smith Copy Share Image
I won't complain about touring, because I really do believe that a public-figure musician complaining about being a public-figure musician is just… — Moby Copy Share Image
I have never imagined doing anything other than football, but now, thinking about it coldly, if I hadn't been a footballer, I… — Ronaldinho Copy Share Image
I don't know where I would be without music. Even if I wasn't a musician, I think music is God. In a… — Allie Gonino Copy Share Image
I think a lot of actors, comedians, musicians, artists are drawn to this world, because you're allowed to excavate whatever it is… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
I think I always kind of wanted to be a musician but never dared to say it out loud because I never… — Sigrid Copy Share Image
... my songs speak for themselves. The musicians who play on them and the way they sound and where they were recorded… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
![“I don't think that those things [so called common practice] ever truly existed in the way that we like to believe that they do, the way we learn about them in music history class. Those things are defined at least decades after they happen. And even then, it's a fallacy because when you're in the…” quote by Missy Mazzoli](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f92/missy-mazzoli-30163_believe_i-don-t-think-that-those-things-so-calle_2568944.jpg)
