Musician Quotes · Page 49

All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion…

— John Coltrane

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

— Patti Smith

Making music, if youre a real musician, you carry on, regardless in this world.

— Joe Cocker

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every…

— Richard Wagner

I want to express my ideas through my music and on stage because I'm a musician.

— CL

“That is sacrilegious. You just totally dissed man code. If we don’t have man code, the world will fall apart." Kip Paxton”

— Sasha Marshall

Yes, I'm a musician. I also like to play with others, sometimes more, sometimes less.

— Klaus Schulze

You should play with real musicians; the best music comes from real people interacting with each other.

— John Fogerty

I think one of the things which always is forgotten in music class, is the first thing you have to do as…

— Hans Zimmer

Most true musicians don't do it for the money, they do it because they love it. When I did slam poetry, it…

— Jake Holmes

But I never imagined that I could ever have a career in music. I always thought it was like a mafia, that…

— Caroline Polachek

There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his…

— William Kingdon Clifford

“A good guitarist will always try to get the best out of the instrument that they are holding in their hands. The…

— André van Eck

Whenever I release a record, it's my record. It's not a selfish thought. I may work all year 'round for other people.…

— Eberhard Weber

It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware…

— Arnold Palmer

I'm a musician. I've done TV, but I've never really been a reality TV star, and it's not the route I'm looking…

— Tulisa

We're not just R&B guys. We can do pop, rock, blues . . . a wide variety. We are musicians and play…

— Damon Thomas

If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works - he has an idea and he writes…

— Brian Eno

A lot of musicians are super - insecure and they take forever and they obsess over the minutia and it's really stifling.…

— Dan Auerbach

What is scurrilously called ragtime is an invention that is here to stay. That is now conceded by all classes of musicians...…

— Scott Joplin

...I do like the low frequencies. It's from years and years of observing audiences when they hear a lower frequency coming from…

— Bennie Maupin

I got a chance to work with Miles Davis, and that changed everything for me, 'cause Miles really encouraged all his musicians…

— Herbie Hancock

My daughter Meredith Moon from my second wife has a band that does Appalachian music, with five-strong banjo, clawhammer style. I may…

— Gordon Lightfoot

So, I mean, there's still vast swaths of the city that are suffering from a lack of jobs and poor housing and…

— David Maraniss

Music might tame and civilize wild beasts, but 'tis evident it never yet could tame and civilize musicians.

— John Gay

Becoming a musician was all about escape. It was about getting away from the foulness that was me.

— John Grant

I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.

— Jamie Foxx

You know, any sane magician would never reveal his method of deception. And I don't think that a sensible musician would either.

— Van Dyke Parks

I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.

— Joan Armatrading

I'm lucky to have had the opportunity to perform with bands that have influenced me as a musician over the years.

— Joey Jordison

I think some musicians can almost forget that the stage is something to do something on, even if that thing is standing…

— Johnny Marr

Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.

— Brian Eno

The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians.

— Anonymous

Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his…

— Action Bronson

Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.

— Richard Wagner

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

— Travis Barker

I'll be right here in my spot wit a lil more cash than I already got trippin off you cause you had…

— Drake

I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I identify more as a musician than as a singer, because I play piano and percussion, and I engineer and produce everything…

— Janina Gavankar

I'd written songs since I was 16, but I never thought that I would be a musician full time.

— Shura