Musician Quotes · Page 44

Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician

— Wynton Marsalis

The big corporations and the big companies turned musicians into factory workers on an assembly line.

— Ray Davies

You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves…

— Bob Marley

It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.

— Ellie Goulding

All of the musicians when I was young used to always say you had to tell a story when you're a musician.

— Dave Holland

The Red Comyns had always done well behind the throne. The king was but an instrument, as his father used to say.…

— Robyn Young

Pretty much every artist in Scotland - musician, writer, poet, actor - they're all part of a thing called the National Collective.

— Roddy Woomble

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

— Janis Joplin

I'm a man who believes that right is right and wrong is wrong. Treat me right, and I will give you my…

— Johnny Paycheck

I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that…

— Nick Cave

I've always wanted to do a cutesy little song with a guy and girl singing back and forth and thought that Regina…

— Brendon Urie

Art has been good for my soul. And it's been good for my brain. I think I'm a better painter now than…

— Anne Sweeney

I don't go around, the way many musicians do, with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just…

— Herbie Hancock

Not only did I get to play with these great international musicians, but I also had the opportunity to jam with the…

— Jeff Healey

If you are having trouble making a chord, get a book, that is how I learned. There are guitar tuning apps so…

— Joan Jett

Too many musicians rush through everything with too many notes. I need time to take the picture. A ballad should be a…

— Shirley Horn

It's just all love. That's what music is. That's why music is created. To make people feel good, to uplift people. That's…

— Bruno Mars

The source of inspiration can be any of the things:deep emotional experiences - say, romantic love or spiritual contemplation.I think such rare…

— Dave Brubeck

I decided I wanted to be a musician when I saw the movie 'Amadeus' around 1987. I was five years old, so…

— Mark Salling

Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It's funny how film is the slowest art form to adapt to freedom. It's had freedom all along. It could've done whatever…

— Guy Maddin

I've been a big believer in musicians turned actor, going back to Sinatra winning the Oscar for 'From Here To Eternity.' David…

— Peter Berg

I feel like I live in my own little world, to be honest. I mean, I love my record, but I don't…

— Dan Auerbach

The idea of actually taking sharp turns left and right has always intrigued me, but I've never really been bold enough to…

— Robert Plant

Any musician in any band - for a really good band - you know your part in the band.

— Duff McKagan

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better…

— Stan Getz

[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.

— Henry Adams

I still have a hard time just calling myself a musician. If I'm talking to somebody and they ask me what I…

— Grant Evans

It's important for me to be with a musician or someone who has a creative mind.

— Amy Winehouse

I love anyone who breaks the rules, and musicians always break the rules - in an aggressive way.

— Donatella Versace

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

— Henry Moore

Apart from being a playback singer for films, I'm also an independent musician.

— Adnan Sami

I am an observer of life, a non-participant who takes no sides. I am in the regimented society, but not of it.

— Moondog

I see love in black and white. Passion in shades of “gris”. But when it comes to you and I, color is…

— Lady Gaga

When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba.

— Compay Segundo

We wouldn't be artists, writers, painters, musicians, if we weren't sensitive.

— Wayne Coyne

I have found that the best cure for self pity is to do something to help someone else.

— Carl Orr

Everything I hear influences me. I can't tell you all my influences as a musician.

— Lemmy

I'm a horrible musician, but I've been fortunate enough to play great songs.

— Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein

The internet has a way of mainstreaming everything. Any artist, any musician, any sexual kink, any political view point, it's all there.

— Arthur Jones