Musician Quotes · Page 47

Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.

— Celia Thaxter

I didn't want to just be making music randomly and not have any direction.

— Mura Masa

I think of myself as a jungle musician because of my lack of formal training.

— George Harrison

I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians…

— Bradley Joseph

Musicians tell me, if what I'm doing is right, they should never have gone to school.

— Ornette Coleman

Ive always enjoyed the enthusiasm of the best studio musicians and, over the years, have collected so many inspired contributions from them.

— Michael Franks

For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.

— Virginia Woolf

For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.

— Cornel West

I loved the atmosphere of the dance studios - the wooden floors, the big mirrors, everyone dressed in pink or black tights,…

— Suzanne Vega

But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and…

— Geddy Lee

Im just lucky to have great parents. My sisters an actress. My brothers a musician. I found it hard growing up in…

— Grace Gummer

I always wanted to be a musician, 100 percent, my whole life. I went to school, I did music theory, I did…

— Adria Petty

The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and…

— H. L. Mencken

The artist knows he must be alone to create; the writer, to work out his thoughts; the musician, to compose; the saint,…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I…

— Natalie Merchant

Part of me believes that the completed record is the final measure of a pop musician's accomplishment, just as the completed film…

— Jon Landau

If I had lady-spider legs, I would weave a sky where the stars lined up. Matresses would be tied down tight to…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

The best musicians in the world were raised on the same kind of music I was raised on and that is black,…

— Ted Nugent

Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory; practice must settle the habit of doing,…

— John Locke

Poetry can explain individuals to ourselves, and change our attitudes, and help us see the complexity of the world, but the kind…

— Stephen Burt

Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and…

— Anais Nin

Well the artists that inspire me were, first of all I would say Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, John Holt, Alton Ellis, Errol…

— Gregory Isaacs

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

I don't remember things initially when listening to music. Like, I don't remember where I first heard a song, I don't have…

— Stephin Merritt

It never really occurred to me to seek out a female influence, a female musician.

— Nita Strauss

My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural…

— Ethel Merman

A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.

— Mary Astor

By and large, musicians respect New York audiences, and also are greatly concerned about New York reviews.

— Harold C. Schonberg

I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed.

— Elton John

Kenny Burrell is a great musician and his music has helped to make me what I am today.

— Stevie Wonder

Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.

— Chico Hamilton

Then you've a hunch what the music meant . . . hunger and night and the stars.

— Robert W. Service

I'd hit thirty, I'd sort of failed as a musician, I'd failed as an artist I felt at the time.

— Paul Kaye

That said, everything's important, and every musician who plays on the record is an integral part of it.

— Jerry Harrison

I'm not more than a musician that enjoys what he does and a Colombian that dreams and fights for peace in his…

— Juanes

I think every touring musician sacrifices aspects of their life to do it.

— Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

I love being a drummer but I love being a musician in general and I love the Foo fighters.

— Dave Grohl

I didn't entertain the idea that my music would ever become available in any of the ways that I had previously known…

— Nico Muhly

Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician.

— Tupac Shakur

An animal can learn to fight, but to sing beautiful things and make people believe them.

— Dalton Trumbo