Musician Quotes · Page 54

The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty.

— Bertrand Russell

Music was never a priority for me, and I seriously do not know how I got so big.

— Momina Mustehsan

If I write songs and I think they sound good, then that's it. That's what I do. I'm not a technical musician,…

— Creed Bratton

Music has always been my first love, and I appreciate how a great musician can bring awareness to tough issues through their…

— Kerby Jean-Raymond

Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.

— Wes Montgomery

To me, as a musician, there aren't any boundaries genre-wise as far as what can you listen to to inspire you.

— John Legend

I've always wanted to be a musician. I love music; like, I probably sang when I was born.

— Kate Pierson

All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion…

— John Coltrane

Sometimes when you meet a musician you are a fan of, and he or she isn't the friendliest person, you walk away…

— Henry Rollins

I never use someone just because they are great musicians. I work with people who have the same kind of feeling towards…

— Angelique Kidjo

And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we…

— Evelyn Glennie

I'm not a real good musician, but I can write [a song] pretty well. I experiment once in a while to see…

— Marty Robbins

I am a musician and am so thankful for that. I have no experience of war. But I find a similarity between…

— Miyavi

One of the best things about Kickstarter and crowdfunding and the collapse of the music business is a lot of artists like…

— Amanda Palmer

Bach is a colossus of Rhodes, beneath whom all musicians pass and will continue to pass. Mozart is the most beautiful, Rossini…

— Charles Gounod

I don't think there is a musician today that hasn't been affected by Elvis' music. His definitive years - 1954-57 - can…

— Brian Setzer

My advice to women who habitually gravitate toward musicians is that they learn how to play an instrument and start making music…

— Julie Klausner

Tom [Courtenay] and Albert Finney met Ron Harwood on the dresser, so that's how it started. It's a wonderful documentary. It's called…

— Dustin Hoffman

One of the things I always believed in was my dad came to America and he was a very talented musician, but…

— Denis Leary

Your body is merely a machine made to express the thoughts that flow through you and nothing more. It is but an…

— Walter Russell

I'd always meant to become a musician. I'd just never gotten around to it. And my daughter being born, I was like,…

— Jonathan Coulton

Basically, this industry is mostly run by men, and I think women have a harder time...I've had enough of the "Women in…

— Princess Superstar

Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the…

— James Whistler

Being a part of the crowd with incredible musicians onstage summoning the muse and delivering that to us - doesn't matter if…

— Patrick Fabian

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.

— Brian Eno

Music criticism should be to musicians what ornithology is to the birds.

— Yuja Wang

To be a musician, you have to be honest... to be honest... to be honest.

— Bobby McFerrin

I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.

— Ritchie Blackmore

As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing.

— Sheryl Crow

My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.

— Ishmael Reed

There's no musician who just wakes up one day and decides, 'This is what I want to do.' It takes some development.

— Julien Baker

I always knew music was gonna be my outlet, I just didn't know when, or how it was gonna happen.

— Tay Keith

Never miss an opportunity to teach; when you teach others, you teach yourself.

— Itzhak Perlman

Possibly the whole creative whirlwind of any musician's life is based on garnering and developing and absorbing more and more experience.

— Robert Plant

My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a…

— Randy Houser

YouTube is an amazing platform for young musicians - although its harder to get noticed now that everyone is on it.

— Conor Maynard

David Bowie's my favorite musician. I love him above all, but I'm really into rap a lot right now.

— Ethan Suplee

Improvising musicians are musical travelers, voyagers. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.

— Gary Burton

The ability for a woman to orally satisfy somebody in a rock band, that's important to a rock 'n' roll musician.

— Chad Kroeger

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?

— Dave Grohl