Musician Quotes · Page 45

Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.

— Jimmy Page

Success is nice, but it shouldn't be the only reason why you're a musician.

— Chester Bennington

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

— Sheena Iyengar

Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever?

— Henry David Thoreau

You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste.

— Bradford Cox

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.

— Freddie Mercury

The amount of exposure you get in India as a musician in Bollywood is so much better than what one gets independently.

— Amit Trivedi

When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I…

— Don McLean

My husband, Gabriele, is a musician, and I love music, so you can bet it's a really important part of our home…

— Debi Mazar

When people ask me how they should approach performance, I always tell them the professional musician should aspire to the state of…

— Yo-Yo Ma

Every recording session and tour is a very valuable time to me in terms of getting to spend time with the musicians…

— Will Oldham

“Asking to hold a musician's instrument is roughly similar to asking to kiss a man's wife. Nonmusicians don't understand. An instrument is…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I once painted a concert singer and on the chestnut frame I carved the opening bars of Mendelssohn's Rest in the Lord.…

— Thomas Eakins

A lot of what inspired many musicians is celebrating differences, and people relate to that - more people feel like the unpopular,…

— Anonymous

Being a classical musician, you're doing many things anyway. One day you're doing Bach concerto and the next you're doing some avant-garde…

— Joshua Bell

I claimed identity as Jewish musicians for political reasons, because most of us were touring in Germany and, at this time, twelve…

— Marc Ribot

Jazz musicians like John Coltrane needed these very clear titles for their abstract music, and your decision to bring voices into your…

— Glenn Ligon

In order to function and pay our bills and our taxes and feed our families and stuff, musicians have to make a…

— Matt Snell

When I was a little bitty kid, my aunt showed me how to play a little boogie. It took me years. I…

— Dr. John

An actor uses his body as a tool and an instrument. In the same way a musician plays an instrument, the actor…

— Rob Minkoff

I've always thought that I'm not really a guitar player, but I just practised so much that I developed into a kind…

— Ritchie Blackmore

When I went, I hadn't had very much time to have hopes or expectations. I knew very little about Nashville, and I…

— Anna Ternheim

Music needs the juxtaposition of opposites to achieve its drama, so harshness and dissonance are simply part of the material a musician…

— Chuck Israels

And you realise you're doing a public service in making people happy - as a musician you can give people something a…

— Billy Ocean

Justin represents HOPE, that is his brand. Small town musician makes good. Fans want him to succeed. Many see themselves in him.

— Scooter Braun

Surround yourself with people who allow you the time to really discover what kind of a musician you truly are.

— Jack Savoretti

Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world.

— Pattie Boyd

I'm not a human interest story, man. I'm just a musician trying to make some small records and be happy, be peaceful.

— Mark Lanegan

[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.

— Van Morrison

There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an…

— John Philip Sousa

Every record, you've got more experiences to draw on as a writer and a musician.

— Jerry Cantrell

I'm supposed to be a musical genius, but I can't work the car seat that well.

— Kanye West

I regard myself as a true American musician, and I play every style that is my heritage.

— Michelle Shocked

“I like the smell of my Grandma's soap - I used to sit in the bath and eat it.”

— Carl Barât

I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other…

— Gary Burton

Chopin--Two embalmers at work upon a minor poetthe scent of tuberosesAutumn rain.

— H. L. Mencken

I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.

— Barry Manilow

Composers are in some ways the last frontier of musician that gets a paycheck for their musical services.

— Cliff Martinez

I'm a weird, bald musician who makes records in his bedroom and lives in the Lower East Side.

— Moby

Music can shoot through the musician like lightening through the sky if that music is unobstructed by thoughts.

— Kenny Werner