Musician Quotes · Page 29

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

— Louis MacNeice

That's one of the things about being married to a couple of musicians, I have got great iPods. That's what I was…

— Pamela Anderson

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

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

— Lenny Kravitz

I've been a musician since childhood, and music is my first love. I love it.

— Steven Seagal

I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.

— David Byrne

Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people…

— Langston Hughes

There are five things to write songs about: I'm leaving you. You're leaving me. I want you. You don't want me. I…

— Elvis Costello

I had a really nice association with Richie DeRosa, a great musician, a great drummer and composer and arranger. And I had…

— Jon Gordon

I love being alive and I will be the best man I possibly can. I will take love wherever I find it…

— Duane Allman

The hounding of a dog pursuing a fox or other animal in the horizon may have first suggested the notes of the…

— Henry David Thoreau

My brother is the lifelong musician; he made the choice to do that when we were very, very young kids. I remember…

— Kevin Bacon

I used to want to be a singer and a musician for years, from 6 years old to today. I'm not really…

— Tommy Davidson

The main thing a musician would like to do is to give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things…

— John Coltrane

We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat…

— Eleanor Robson Belmont

Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty…

— Robert Aris Willmott

That’s why I make music. When I listen to my favorite music made by other people, that’s what it does to me.…

— Moby

When I was a kid growing up in Kentucky, on lucky summer nights, my cousin would pick me up in his Chevy…

— Chris Frantz

What stood me in good stead was my upbringing. I had a musician father, a very religious mother who totally supported us.…

— Suzi Quatro

I would tell anyone, pick the person you love the most, the musician, the actor, public figure, whatever, and watch a bunch…

— Lilly Singh

I saw so many amazing musicians struggling to build something good. They would play and play... and play some more, but it…

— Dave Madden

But till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace. Rich she shall be, that's certain;…

— William Shakespeare

It was more about getting together with other musicians and playing live. I needed to suss out a full set [for the…

— Eleanor Friedberger

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

— Erin McKeown

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

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

— Robert Wyatt

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

— Rick Riordan

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

— Austin Kleon

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

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

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

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

— Anonymous

I actually started as a singer in Brooklyn, and I lived in a community. To get out of the ghetto of my…

— Charlemagne Palestine

I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because…

— Nat King Cole

I never believed - or knew for sure - if I would be able to make a professional life in music. But…

— Gordon Lightfoot