Musician Quotes · Page 97

I'd been in a couple situations where I'd seen bands realize that they didn't have to get a good take in order…

— J. Robbins

When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a…

— Pat Metheny

Well, I've heard a lot of people, but I think I would say a Brazilian musician named Hermeto Pascoal was one of…

— Flora Purim

[Bach is the] reason I became a musician

— Glenn Gould

One thing about Kurt [Cobain] is before he was a musician, and before he was a rock star, he was an artist,…

— Brett Morgen

A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.

— Keith Richards

The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape.

— Haruki Murakami

I'm not a trained musician.

— Mike Patton

I was busy enough when I was just a musician. I wasn't making all that much money but I was busy.

— Scatman Crothers

I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

Session musicians kind of respected me because what I was talking about made sense. That all came from an education. Believe me,…

— Bobby Vinton

My family were symphonic musicians and in the opera. Also, it was my era, the love of radio. We used to listen…

— Francis Ford Coppola

And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

People don't run out of dreams - people just run out of time.

— Glenn Frey

TLC has helped me to know that as a musician, I can talk about anything; that there are no barriers, and that…

— Lil Mama

“Why I write music? Because it hurts not to.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

...The key to playing with any group is you listen all the time and you listen more than you play.

— John Scofield

I don't want to be looked at as just that guy with the best mixtape of the year. I want to be,…

— Logic

The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who…

— Nick Lowe

You decide to be a musician, you have to put in the time.

— Itzhak Perlman

Athletes and musicians make astronomical amounts of money. People get paid $100 million to throw a baseball! Shouldn't we all take less…

— Kid Rock

Monogamous musicians are like vegan hockey players.

— Rob Sheffield

School of Rock. The best music school anywhere. This whole idea of getting kids not just taking lessons and learning notes and…

— Dee Snider

There's a lot of different forms of communication, but music is absolutely the purest one.

— Duane Allman

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