Like many musicians, I don't look back much... only concentrate on what music I'm doing, and occasionally look ahead. — Tony Levin Copy Share Image
Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical… — Gary Burton Copy Share Image
Up-and-coming musicians can easily reach out and find a loving teacher, and that's definitely what happened to me. — Esperanza Spalding Copy Share Image
A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful? — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
I don't think you can be a good musician if you just listen to rap, or just the [type of music] you… — Freddie Gibbs Copy Share Image
I had to run away from home in order to be a musician. Because I came from a family of... my father… — Hugh Masekela Copy Share Image
Many jazz musicians affect a misunderstood-genius air when they play, which alienates the audience and breaks down the communications of the music.… — Gabor Szabo Copy Share Image
Too many musicians rush through everything with too many notes. I need time to take the picture. A ballad should be a… — Shirley Horn Copy Share Image
My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility. — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
When I came to New York, to Brooklyn, I met Alvin Ailey and Stanley Crouch and August Wilson. They were always putting… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
The planet is asleep and it's the fault of musicians who are untrue to themselves. — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life. — Mark Kozelek Copy Share Image
I just believe that young people need to be able to learn how to write in their own voice. Just like a… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
And there are certain songs that are really timepieces and shouldn't be touched. But some of them are a celebration of good… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
As a journalist, I never critiqued anyone. I never review books. I've never felt qualified as a musician to say whether someone… — James McBride Copy Share Image
I think most cartoonists are solitary, lonely kids who use their work as a way to try to connect with the world.… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
Books are frozen voices, in the same way that musical scores are frozen music. The score is a way of transmitting the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first… — George Bernard Shaw 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
The hardest thing for a musician to learn is how to play WITH people. That's what made the Basie rhythm section. — Jo Jones Copy Share Image
Apart from being a playback singer for films, I'm also an independent musician. — Adnan Sami Copy Share Image
