Musician Quotes · Page 37

Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.

— Norman Granz

Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

I wanted to be a musician but I didn't have the talent for it, so I decided I wanted to be famous,…

— Anthony Hopkins

Only become a musician if there is absolutely no other way you can make a living.

— Kirke Mecham

As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.

— Doc Childre

So many people I was at school with have all ended up being musicians and putting records out.

— Kieran Hebden

I think people don't realize how many hours of practice goes into becoming a musician and getting better.

— Emeli Sande

If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely…

— Toby Stephens

We not only grew up on Be-Bop; Be-Bop raised us. For my generation, Be-Bop came on like a light bulb going flash…

— Ishmael Reed

I love film, and I would love to be a part of something that people universally love as a piece of film.…

— Norah Jones

I think very frequently, musicians become a victim of every song they sing. I like all kinds of recreation. It's aggressive. I…

— David Lee Roth

You'll find little schools of musicians experimenting with different ways of making music in Brooklyn, all through Manhattan, in Queens, in Jersey,…

— Chick Corea

Anybody who'd expend energy preventing people from hearing music seems not to understand the basic principal of making music in the first…

— Jeff Tweedy

There actually had been a tradition within English music of the '60s of people looking eastwards, maybe in quite a naïve way,…

— Justin Adams

The fountain of youth with the youthful young musician is one meaning, and the fountain of youth with the youthful energy of…

— Roy Haynes

I go down to New York, do the project, and leave. I have no interest in participating in the rat race down…

— Paul Smoker

I put my name on that Occupy Musicians list because someone wrote to me and said, "Would you do this?" I said,…

— Ian MacKaye

I have always loved jazz music and as a teen growing up in New York City and then later on as an…

— Tony Bennett

The life of any musician really doesn't fall into a normal schedule at all. Every week there are different rehearsals, different days…

— Leonard Slatkin

As an improviser you need to experience the moment- and that includes everything in the moment. Observe the people around you-the bandleader,…

— Pat Martino

Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find…

— Jerry Lee Lewis

I started playing drums at a pretty early age because my parents were musicians. My dad was an amazing multi-instrumentalist and I…

— Billy Sherwood

There are no Jerry Garcias coming down the pike, anymore than there is a Jimi Hendrix or Bob Marley. They are all…

— Trey Anastasio

I grew up listening to my grandfather's stories of our musical past. He would often talk about the orchestras that played at…

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

The living thing is not the clay molded by the potter, nor the harp played upon by the musician. It is the…

— E.S. Russell

I just wanted to tell the story of a bunch of musicians who had never had their story told before. There's no…

— Michael Azerrad

I love working with different musicians in the studio, that's a real joy working with someone for the first time.

— Bob Seger

As a musician, language is almost like another instrument. Every word has a sound.

— Rosalia

I had abandoned my plans for priesthood and replaced them with dreams of being a musician.

— Jonathan Cain

In my imaginary utopian world there would be a greater allegiance between music writers and musicians.

— Emily Haines

As a musician I'm kind of nomadic, Waldo-like. I show up in different places, and I'm witness to unbelievable things.

— Yo-Yo Ma

Musicians exist independent of any of the marketing terms or the categorization.

— Dwight Yoakam

I'm a musician. I play harmonica for relaxation. A good way to relax and entertain people. An excellent way to have fun.

— Stan Musial

I hate saying I'm a new musician, because I've been doing this forever, but they like to put new musicians on a…

— Alex Winston

Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.

— Steven Curtis Chapman

Sometimes the best moment to sing a victory song is in the middle of your battle.

— Jeremy Riddle

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

— Joe Cocker

Playing live is such a total visceral experience, and really, as a musician, you're trained from the beginning to be a live…

— Geddy Lee

To be up on stage and interacting with musicians, that was a huge epiphany for me.

— Rene Marie

A thriller or an action movie would entice me. A sportsperson or a musician's biopic sounds exciting, too.

— Diana Penty