Musician Quotes · Page 48

There have always been huge musicians and poets in Uruguay, but Uruguay is a well-kept secret.

— Steven Sater

The musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

While not a musician, my father was a music agent for years before becoming pop culture icon Famous Amos.

— Shawn Amos

When you find a waiter who is a waiter and not an actor, writer, musician or poet, you've found a jewel.

— Andre Soltner

Musicians coming together at a time of need is one of the great traditions in this country. It's like people taking charge.

— Mark O'Connor

As a musician, my job is incredibly easy, and it's a good one, but I've got to work at it occasionally.

— A.C. Newman

I think filmmakers all secretly wanna be musicians and all musicians secretly wanna be filmmakers.

— Win Butler

I come to America because if you're a rock 'n' roll musician you should come here every chance you get.

— Gord Downie

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

— Brett Morgen

If I wrote something just for a musician and not for a soundtrack I would have no inspiration from scenes or from…

— Claudio Simonetti

First of all, I think that is true, if you are a musician, particularly on the come, that you do have to…

— John Sebastian

The fact I had my father as an adversary was such a powerful tool to work with. I subconsciously fought him to…

— George Michael

Playing the sex object may not be dangerous for Miley Cyrus, with her bodyguards to protect her, but for a 13-year-old girl…

— Keli Goff

Like most musicians, Im good at becoming immersed in the music that I am currently working on. We seldom lift up our…

— Tony Levin

Science will...produce the data..., but never the full meaning. For perceiving real significance, we shall need...most of all the brains of poets,…

— Lewis Thomas

Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand,…

— Honore de Balzac

You were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid — things you liked — on the…

— Ken Robinson

I grew up in a home filled with music and had an early appreciation of jazz since my dad was a jazz…

— Molly Ringwald

If they think they are doing something new, they ought to do what I do every day - spend at least two…

— Coleman Hawkins

My identity shifted when I got into # recovery . That's who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure…

— Eric Clapton

A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you listen, anybody…

— Miles Davis

I had to run away from home in order to be a musician. Because I came from a family of... my father…

— Hugh Masekela

The hardest thing about being a young musician on the jazz scene is that there are so many styles of music, jazz…

— Dave Kikoski

I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.…

— Billy Joel

As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music…

— Edward Gardner

The hardest thing for a musician to learn is how to play WITH people. That's what made the Basie rhythm section.

— Jo Jones

I speak my mind and come from a place of conscience, as well as have fun as a musician.

— Bonnie Raitt

A girl that's a musician is just such a turn-on. Creative people who are songwriters.

— Calum Hood

I'm not a good enough musician to like completely master something in a couple of days and turn it around.

— Bear McCreary

I'm a musician - I'm always making music. Kobe Bryant is always playing ball. Well, Snoop Dogg is always recording.

— Snoop Dogg

Just because a musician writes a great album doesn't mean they don't want to continue writing great music.

— Carlos Condit

I think that there's a lot of good will that exists between musicians and the people that support them and listen to…

— Jeff Tweedy

The thing is that I'm an actor first, and in 'Once,' I was able to be a musician and a singer as…

— Steve Kazee

When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life.

— Mark Kozelek

I'm definitely a victim of some weird twisted form of not really relating to female musicians.

— Weyes Blood

There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.

— Henry Rollins

Unless you've given up your business to a record label, there's no such thing as just being a musician anymore.

— Jack Conte

It's hard to find five musicians who know what the other is going to do before they do it. And that's what…

— Steven Adler

"The main thing is to play your heart out and whatever helps you to do that is the right way".

— Mike Stern

I practiced two or three hours, sometimes none, sometimes six. It was very varied.

— Julian Bream