Musician Quotes · Page 57

The longer you've been acting, normally, the better you are at it. As a musician, it doesn't work like that.

— Larry Mullen, Jr

Down the road someone is practicing scales, The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails

— Louis MacNeice

Love , creativity, and opportunity is in the air. Take it in and do your thing.

— Lenny Kravitz

I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as…

— Bruce Springsteen

Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough.

— Ry Cooder

I'd seen musicians act, and it scares me. And they make more money than me.

— Tim Roth

I've made my pact with the Lord for the next lifetime. I would love to be a first-class musician. A super one.

— Julie Andrews

Art that only comes from the head isn't any good. Watch any good musician and you'll see what I mean.

— Austin Kleon

You know as I started as a shy young conductor, I always wanted to cooperate. To build up the musicians. To help…

— Kurt Masur

Every time I see a musician - it doesn't matter what age - that inspires me, there's always a secret little wish…

— Chick Corea

I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me…

— John Tesh

I think some of the musicians are more like punk rock musicians. It's like an art as opposed to being a musician.…

— Wayne Coyne

For me, the difference between a musician reading an arrangement on a piece of paper, and them closing their eyes and listening…

— Jose James

I was never ready to give up, but I did get words of confidence to move forward from a few musicians that…

— Lita Ford

The one mentality I've always tried to have is that no matter what stage in your career that you are in as…

— Nick Jonas

It's very interesting for me to listen to music with my wife. She's not a musician but she very often makes comments…

— Paul Lansky

I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond…

— Max Roach

One of the reasons my father ... became a dentist was so he could always be home for dinner and spend weekends…

— Dean Ornish

You should form your own opinions, and I think that's why social media is good because it's an alternative source of information…

— Ellie Rowsell

I'm often surprised by classical music and musicians. I've met a large number of them because my wife works for the Boston…

— James Taylor

There are many kinds of richness, and the man who is rich because of money is the lowest as far as the…

— Rajneesh

The Western music tradition is mostly addressed to a public that has a critical mind, and judges the quality of the writing,…

— Gaspar Claus

I'm not talking about what came later [after the American underground punk scene], indie music, or whatever you want to call it,…

— Ian MacKaye

I don't find a lot of people actually saying things through music any longer. They are not trying to say anything with…

— Robben Ford

The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.

— Dionne Warwick

Taylor is a musician who does things under her own name and tells her own stories-her songs and her albums are her.

— Emma Stone

My dad was a musician. He was a singer and he played the guitar, so music was always around.

— Kris Allen

“When you play music you discover a part of yourself that you never knew existed.”

— Bill Evans

I never became primarily a musician! I've always been a wanderer and I'm always bored.

— Charlemagne Palestine

The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I…

— Erykah Badu

So many policy decisions that effect musicians are being made without any input from musicians at all.

— Erin McKeown

This is Graceland. Home of the most famous musician in the world.” “Michael Jackson lived here?” “No, dummy,” Carter said. “Elvis Presley.

— Rick Riordan

I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune…

— Robert Wyatt

I have a great deal of respect for myself as a musician and a writer, even if I'm not doing it anymore.

— Billy Squier

“Last night I did things my mother told me not to with the people I shouldn't see in the places that I…

— Nick Santino

But God has a few of us to whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we…

— Robert Browning

Black musicians were either trying to be American or trying to play down their Caribbean roots.

— Jazzie B

I never considered a career in music because it was too unattainable. I just didn't believe it was possible.

— Lucy Dacus

A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.

— William Blake

Your uniqueness is your greatest strength, not how well you emulate others.

— Anonymous