Musician Quotes · Page 52

Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing…

— Alexis Korner

I think that a musician is like a doctor, he's supposed to heal people and make them feel better.

— Steve Turre

I think, as a musician and person, Justin Timberlake is someone I've always looked up to.

— Shawn Mendes

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.

— Dave Van Ronk

“All people are musicians" Wit countered. "The question is whether or not they share their songs.”

— Brandon Sanderson

If you really do live a life on the road it completely changes you as a musician.

— Jack Savoretti

The world has lost a great musician who will always be an inspiration to me and those at OBEY GIANT.

— Shepard Fairey

Instead of going to college, I spent my time out on the road learning how to be a better musician.

— Miranda Lambert

I went to university (Brown), I worked as a designer, I competed in Olympic sport (rowing) ... and I ended up being…

— Dhani Harrison

It is the individual voice, present to itself, that needs to be heard. We need to hear the process of the musician…

— Keith Jarrett

I heard these stories [about musicians from my mother] and somehow music, it was my understanding what my father had done. I…

— Jon Gordon

In the end it is the musician who actually plays the notes. The impresario - or the project leader - is only…

— John Kao

I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people…

— Yoko Ono

It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something…

— Nathalie Sarraute

The great leaders of business, industry and finance, and the great artists, poets, musicians and writers all became great because they developed…

— Napoleon Hill

I do a lot of touring, yes, and I have my whole life ever since I was 19 years old, when I…

— Vonda Shepard

We try to make each situation specific to the person. At the beginning of the season, we come up with, like, 50…

— Ashton Kutcher

The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. .…

— Helen Keller

“This writer, he was going on about the lyrics to "Champagne Supernova", and he actually said to me: ‘You know, the one…

— Noel Gallagher

The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the…

— Jacques-Louis David

When I worked with General Electric, again this was soon after the Second World War, you know, I was keeping up with…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that whether it's Indian…

— A. R. Rahman

I think a lot of electronic musicians are drawn to starting with texture because the whole reason we're working with electronics is…

— Dan Deacon

It's like this when you fall hard for a musician. It's a crush with religious overtones. You listen to the songs and…

— Steve Almond

I love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or…

— A. R. Rahman

I just love musicians. They're not all super-happy all the time, but when they're playing they're happy, and it's such a beautiful…

— David Lynch

Musicians talk of nothing but money and jobs. Give me businessmen every time. They really are interested in music and art

— Jean Sibelius

I truly never saw myself doing anything other than music. There was nothing else that brought me this much joy, but also…

— Bishop Briggs

Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door.

— Charles M. Schulz

I couldn't concentrate on music. So I made the choice to give up my career as a musician in the frontline to…

— Robert Fripp

'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a…

— Artie Shaw

I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way.

— Kevin Eubanks

A good song is a good song, and good musicians can play all different styles.

— John Doe

Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell 'em to do that, they'll find a little pot of gold.

— Tom Waits

A good musician should say: We can live without air but not without music!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I think we’re at the stage where we’re not musicians but not idols either. In a way, we also feel bad for…

— G-Dragon

I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that…

— Barry Manilow

If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.

— Shinichi Suzuki

I've always seen myself as a working musician but now there's no money in records for the artist at all, it's all…

— Paul Young

I don't think I'm even a musician. I don't play a lot of instruments, not really a soloist or anything.

— Cass McCombs