Musician Quotes · Page 44

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

— Joan Armatrading

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

— Johnny Marr

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

— John Fogerty

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

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

— John Grant

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

— John Gay

A very few musicians passed across all decades. In terms of trumpet playing, Louis Armstrong does it of course but Sweets [Edison]…

— Freddie Hubbard

Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical,…

— Nat Wolff

One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really…

— Lisa Loeb

I play classical music almost exclusively. I never mastered jazz or gospel in the way that my mother did. She was a…

— Condoleezza Rice

A great hang is mandatory. But in all of my years as a traveling musician, on a whole it's been pretty damn…

— Shelby Lynne

Every orchestra is different. Sometimes, you're blown away by a particular musician. If I'm playing the Brahms concerto, it's crucial to have…

— Joshua Bell

The growth of a naturalist is like the growth of a musician or athlete: excellence for the talented, lifelong enjoyment for the…

— E. O. Wilson

I enjoyed living in New York City, I liked the premise of the show [Saturday Night Live], I liked working with a…

— Kevin Nealon

I think the other thing that's important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody…

— Brian Eno

I'm not a real musician. If you give me a bass guitar and you ask me to improvise something, or even be…

— Marion Cotillard

In America, the poor have been invisibilised, because obviously this model of success that has been held out to the world must…

— Arundhati Roy

I knew a gentleman that I had worked with over the years, who is no longer with us, and was a great…

— Andy Garcia

I haven't figured out how to do anything yet besides recording music - I don't even entirely know how to do that.…

— Willis Earl Beal

I often call Daptone the Motown and Stax of today. But in some ways, it's different. At Motown, a lot of the…

— Sharon Jones

Most of the EDM tracks right now are not very musical, they have one note that keeps playing. You really don't need…

— Cedric Gervais

Like musicians who can read and write complicated scores in a world without sounds, for us mathematics is a source of delight,…

— Gil Kalai

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

— Patti Smith

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

— Richard Wagner

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

— Joe Cocker

I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

— James Brown

Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s.

— Christian McKay

I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.

— Walter Becker

I played guitar when I was a kid a little bit. I can tool around with a guitar, but I'm certainly not…

— Matt Ross

I have performed all over the world to packed audiences. I don't have to be a trained musician to prove my singing…

— Atif Aslam

I want people to hear musicians like Joe Cuba. He has done things to whole masses of Puerto Rican people. The music…

— David Bowie

My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the…

— Anonymous

[Slogan of her 'Trouble Bureau' for needy artists and musicians:] Happiness is a change of trouble.

— Malvina Hoffman

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

— Tony Visconti

The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.

— Roy Ayers

We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

— Eddie Van Halen

I'm a compulsive musician, but it's also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else.

— Alexis Korner

I'm going to get drunk and insult as many musicians from the 80's as is humanly possible.

— Noel Gallagher