Musician Quotes · Page 42

A good film demands its own score, and if you are a musician, your conscience will never allow you to do something…

— A. R. Rahman

One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.

— Jon Anderson

I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn't trust your health to an electrician.

— Paul Bley

I just have never seen anyone build anything significant in any field without having a deep and detailed sense of what they…

— Pat Metheny

If you're a musician, you're a musician; you don't ever get that out of your bones.

— Alex Clare

We are musicians, entertainers. We can do it. We have the right tools. No worries.

— Pete Townshend

“Be yourself. Don't take anyone's shit and never let them get you alive.”

— Gerard Way

I used to pretend to be an expert on various kinds of music, even if they didn't really interest me.

— Fumio Sasaki

I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn…

— Donald Fagen

I'm a very typical yoga-practicing musician; I do it when I can. I'm not hardcore about it. A lot of my lyrics…

— Brett Dennen

I would say that the evocative qualities of music are usually put there in post-production in the reverb. It's really not much…

— Stephin Merritt

I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique…

— Billy Sheehan

Everybody always wants to meet musicians. You can go to any random bar around the world and be like, "I'm a musician,"…

— Patrick Watson

Drummers shouldn't just think of themselves as drummers. If you're going to be a musician, you should expand your horizons, compose things,…

— Stewart Copeland

We're all different. Some people are musicians, some people are actors, some people are agents and some people are accountants... We're all…

— Anthony Hopkins

“The greatest artists express their inner self; an artist paints her rage; a writer pens his fear; a dancer expresses her sadness…

— Gerard de Marigny

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds…

— Bill Bruford

I know some people really try to avoid music when they're writing and recording, but I am very inspired by so many…

— Devendra Banhart

I was not part of the golden age of the record industry, when musicians and producers were making real money. So I…

— Gaspar Claus

You discover over time that music can be overwhelming. Unless the musicians involved understand this they can lose audiences. Spontaneity and improvisation…

— Bennie Maupin

These people shred. That's what I was saying about Nashville-you can go to an open mic night at the Holiday Inn and…

— Lzzy Hale

She has her own glamour, Willy lad. All poets do, all the bards and artists, all the musicians who truly take the…

— Emma Bull

Love is infectious. You know, God is infectious-God flowing through us and us being little-baby creators and s--. But His energy and…

— Kanye West

When you get in the middle of a career and you're successful, people come and offer you things. My biggest fear was…

— Tim McGraw

I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was…

— Robert Moog

My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.

— Brandi Carlile

While my mother wanted me to be a musician, I wanted to become an electronic engineer.

— A. R. Rahman

The harp is an insipid instrument--no good for dancing, feasting, or marching, only for sitting primly in a parlor or on a…

— Mason Cooley

Whenever I heard a musician do something that I could not explain, I went back to the theory in order to figure…

— George Russell

I don't think you can learn to be a complete musician. That has to come from within, and it entails a lot…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing.

— Buddy Guy

The Daryls House thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way…

— Daryl Hall

I'm not in it for my health. I'm a musician and I wanna live the way I do.

— Levon Helm

As I grew in confidence, I was able to come out and say that I'm a musician.

— Shura

I didn't really intend on having a music career. It just kind of happened.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

There's a lot of different forms of communication, but music is absolutely the purest one.

— Duane Allman

It was like an exponential weed. And people treated me as if I was an established musician. I wasn't.

— Jack Tatum

When you have the opportunity to make music with great musicians, take it. That's it. That's the only reason I need, really.

— Joss Stone

I see myself more like a novelist or a polygamist than a musician in terms of my output.

— Mark Kozelek

You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville.

— Richie Sambora