Musicians Quotes · Page 5

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

— John Fogerty

“Music communicates to us emotionally through systematic violations of expectations.”

— Daniel J. Levitin

One of my favourite musicians in the world is Jaco Pastorius.

— Josh Freese

An element I love about the blues is jamming with other musicians.

— Gary Hoey

Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.

— Benny Goodman

I’m not all about money, but, like most musicians, I am about survival.

— David Byrne

The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.

— David Byrne

It's OK to be gay, and it's OK to buy an album by gay musicians.

— Manila Luzon

Big Red Machine is really a community effort: I guess it involves almost 30 musicians. It does come out of our friendship,…

— Aaron Dessner

I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a…

— Robert Wyatt

Under the umbrella of commercial music, there is music which majority of people remember. Then there are songs which only musicians can…

— Jonita Gandhi

Musicians have made incredible contributions to the conservation and environmental movement and continue to do so, more than ever.

— Paul Watson

All musicians should write poetry or at least read it if they want to improve their game. Except for people who believe…

— David Berman

Jodi Melnick is hotly self-absorbed. Her onstage musicians are much too loud, and like so many narcissistic performers, she goes on much…

— Robert Gottlieb

There are not many musicians from India who are working internationally in pop. My aim is to change that and show the…

— Ananya Birla

None of my kids want to be actors. They are actually very interested in being musicians. I think they like the process…

— Angelina Jolie

For me, actresses are constantly chameleons, and so they are taking a backseat to their own personality. I don't feel like we're…

— Jeremy Scott

The record company started as an adjunct to that, to give young composers their first recorded performances; to give young musicians their…

— Gunther Schuller

Rooney was like marrying a high school sweetheart. And then you're like, 'I think we need some time to see other people,'…

— Robert Coppola Schwartzman

It's not an accident that musicians become musicians and engineers become engineers: it's what they're born to do. If you can tune…

— Jack Canfield

I'm sure there's a subconscious 'go for it' thing with turning 50. You want to do as much as possible and there…

— Paul Weller

When it comes to independent music albums, you cannot put in 50 lakhs or a crore in each and every song to…

— Neha Kakkar

“The average artist has a naïve, unrealistic, and disconnected view of what the music industry is, how it works, what is involved…

— Loren Weisman

We all kind of dreamed about being musicians, but the narrative around being a musician is it'll never happen to you. It's…

— Clairo

“A nation forgetting its own laughter is in a sad state of affairs”

— Sherry Marie Gallagher

I am friends with the most amazing musicians that can do pop, rap, punk and jazz.

— Kenny Beats

My musicians know all of my music, and so that makes for something different.

— Dianne Reeves

It's neat to hear a new generation of musicians come up.

— Kevin Jonas

I think that there are some fantastic musicians out there - very, very talented musicians.

— Philip Bailey

MCs are authors, and rock musicians who write lyrics are authors, to a degree.

— Aesop Rock

All musicians and artists - we all got quirks that have to be put up with at certain times.

— Dickey Betts

“These babies ain’t just guitars; these babies are living, breathing instruments.”

— Brenda Sutton Rose

I woud definitely want to collaborate with Indian musicians.

— Chamillionaire

“You're too damn beautiful for your own good.Hell,you're too damn beautiful for my own good”

— Caisey Quinn

I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

Ignorant music makes money. Intellectual music makes sense.

— Jasari

All these petty problems are pop music but serious problems are heavy metall

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

What’d I tell you about musicians? That bad boy type will only break your heart.

— Stephanie Perkins

A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?

— Robert Glasper

Great musicians need great producers. The Beatles had George Martin.

— John Gourley