Every musician out there wants to be judged on the merit of their songwriting, the merit of their performing abilities. — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful. And if you think it's beautiful, maybe they… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
When I look back on my life, I don't have regrets about what I didn't do. If I'd become a musician, it… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
“While I am so afraid to fail so I won't even try, Well how can I say I'm alive.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well. — Andres Segovia Copy Share Image
The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A very talented player and all around excellent musician. I love hearing his records on radio! — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
As a youngster, I never dreamed there could be a career actually earning a living writing music. — John Williams Copy Share Image
People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn… — Roscoe Mitchell Copy Share Image
Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them… — Youssou N'Dour Copy Share Image
The goths are beautiful, a vast depth of subcultural, aesthetic and poetic ideas, and we would identify with that as we did… — Peter Murphy Copy Share Image
There's been this perception that Europeans still hold on to, that they discover the real talented ones in American culture and give… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
When I went off to college, I was expecting to be a concert musician. In music school I heard all of these… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The musicians are good and their music is catchy - it pulls the kids in in droves. Mike Bickle admitted to me… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
There are people who are really great musicians. I've met a lot of them. And I'm not a great musician. I'm adequate… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
It's definitely about the rhythm of the words and how they sound together, writing one sentence and then another and another and… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
In reality everybody has got musical thoughts. If you are able to overcome the part of it which is muscle training, which… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
In a certain sense, these were lessons I learned by playing with Indian musicians. The rhythmic forms that they use are very… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
For artists like me, I think the times that just say the 80's alone, you didn't have to worry about getting twenty-five… — Joe Louis Walker Copy Share Image
My attitude towards my time as a musician, is that I really wanted to completely reinvent myself and not be one of… — Kurt Ralske Copy Share Image
Learning to play the guitar is a combination of mental and motor skill acquisition. And to develop motor skill, repetition is essential...… — Howard Roberts Copy Share Image
Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also. — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it. — Charlie Parker Copy Share Image
As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future. — Dizzy Gillespie Copy Share Image
People who have gone, are still here, in us. Places we came from, are carried to the places we go. — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
Reinvention is the biggest gift I've been given. I've gone from graffiti artist to jewellery maker, urban musician to conductor. — Goldie Copy Share Image
I didn't take music seriously in the beginning. It just kind of a hobby to me. It was something that I love… — Yuna Copy Share Image
Everyone thought my first album would be instrumental, but I didn't want to do it - it took me eight months to… — Ry Cooder 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
Drugs and sex go hand in hand when you're a rock and roll musician. Whereas if I were a violinist, it might… — Slash Copy Share Image
A musician must lift up the souls of the listeners, and take them towards space. — Nikhil Banerjee Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
There was never really a Plan B for me - I always wanted to be a music artist. — Tinashe Copy Share Image
Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians. — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life. — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
I know this guy is a musician so I hope he can play us a tune that could get us the hell… — Joe Teti Copy Share Image
