Musician Quotes · Page 21

Bill Justis was a saxophone player, good musician, arranger, and friend of mine who had a big hit called 'Raunchy.'

— Ray Stevens

People expect you to be this weird cartoon sometimes when you're a musician. I hate that. I hate standing out. I hate…

— Katy B

Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace">Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love of…

— C. S. Lewis

The worst people on earth are not only those who commit evil, but those who stand by and turn a blind eye

— Emmanuel Jal

I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it's going to happen, but as musicians I think…

— Elton John

It is curious how people go on believing that the musician knows less about what he is doing than those that judge…

— Darius Milhaud

I've been a musician since I was nine. I think a ghost or goblin visited me in the night. Maybe aliens abducted…

— Alan Cohen

The goths are beautiful, a vast depth of subcultural, aesthetic and poetic ideas, and we would identify with that as we did…

— Peter Murphy

I often call Daptone the Motown and Stax of today. But in some ways, it's different. At Motown, a lot of the…

— Sharon Jones

You know, Equal Interest played at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival Awards and not one musician from that category was even thought…

— Joseph Jarman

No more painters, no more scribblers, no more musicians, no more sculptors, no more religions, no more royalists, no more radicals, no…

— Louis Aragon

And with a few moments like that, with doubt from here and there, and within ourselves we were just striving for excellence.…

— Jørn Utzon

Once the jazz musician learns all the fundamentals they can keep track of a lot of choices in an instant.

— Sheena Iyengar

I'm lucky to have had the opportunity to perform with bands that have influenced me as a musician over the years.

— Joey Jordison

Pride, on the other hand, is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of lucifer.... An instrument strung, but preferring…

— C. S. Lewis

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

— Thelonious Monk

If you make a suggestion and [musicians] don't know what you mean, you have to be able to do it yourself. I…

— Miles Davis

Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like…

— Marilyn Monroe

Stereotyping and generating brands around musicians I think contributes to their eventual demise.

— Squarepusher

I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn't especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my…

— Eric Avery

Colorism and racism don't stop when you're a musician or when you have wealth or when you're in any given position.

— Chance The Rapper

I've been programmed to be an actor. So when I figured out I wanted to be a rock star or a musician,…

— Jesse Rutherford

“We are here as a reminder that the world is not better off without you.”

— Frank Iero

This blend of musicians on '90 Millas' is historically significant on a number of levels. This is the first and quite possibly…

— Gloria Estefan

What do you think an artist is An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears…

— Pablo Picasso