Musician Quotes · Page 56

For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.

— Cornel West

It never really occurred to me to seek out a female influence, a female musician.

— Nita Strauss

I think of myself as a jungle musician because of my lack of formal training.

— George Harrison

Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.

— Celia Thaxter

I didn't want to just be making music randomly and not have any direction.

— Mura Masa

So I cradle this average violin that knows Only forgotten showtunes, but argues The possibility of free declamation anchored To a dull…

— John Ashbery

The person I would trust the most is my mom. She's just really creative... She's a playwright and she's a musician.

— Jazmine Sullivan

Spirituality is worthless if it's not practical. Music is my work. I am a musician.

— John McLaughlin

I never really thought of myself as a musician. I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in…

— Kim Gordon

When I hear music that parents hate, or older musicians hate, I know that's the new music. When I hear older people…

— George Clinton

Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how…

— Evelyn Glennie

How great musicians demonstrate a mutual respect and trust on the bandstand can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every…

— Wynton Marsalis

It's easy for people to mistake most musicians as living the easy life. It takes a while to get to that point.…

— Chaz Bundick

When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when…

— Zach Woods

My love of R&B and hip-hop has influenced my life not even as a musician, but generally in terms of growing up…

— James Vincent McMorrow

The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man's soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians…

— Anonymous

I think most people who decide to become a musician have to be prepared for some degree of struggle. It makes the…

— Reeve Carney

Although I have guitars all around and I pick themm up occasionally and write a tune and make a record, I don't…

— George Harrison

the writer must resist this temptation [to quote] and do his best with his own tools. It would be most convenient for…

— Ethel Smyth

I can't remember ever being really bored. I find life very interesting, actually. I think some other musicians are always looking for…

— Tom Verlaine

Because when you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in their face after they deliver monumental…

— Kanye West

I've found in composing that being simple and profound—having in-depthness in your music—is the most difficult thing to do. Anybody can write…

— Horace Silver

Music is a universal language insofar as you don't need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with…

— Jerry Garcia

I think I'm better at producing than I am at being a songwriter, but it doesn't change the fact that I still…

— John Congleton

I've been collaborating with Ira Schickman on some songs, and there will be many other, great musicians involved.

— Chaka Khan

My mom really wanted me to be a musician so she gave me a guitar for my fifth birthday, but I didn't…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in…

— Ray Stevens

I don't play for the guitarists in the audience. I play for the musicians.

— Frank Gambale

I never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist.

— Pete Seeger

We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians.

— Khalil Gibran

A genius! For 37 years I've practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!

— Pablo de Sarasate

You kind of hope as a musician that you get some recognition for what you do, and when you do, it's nice.…

— Alex Clare

I wanted to be a writer since I was a little girl - long before I was a musician and a songwriter.

— Juliana Hatfield

What I like about being a musician is that I find the thing soothing, but I also give the soothing to other…

— Sinead O'Connor

When I was boy, all I ever wanted to be was a musician. I'm so grateful I get to do it.

— James Bowen

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin,…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

You don't find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn't mean to say you can't be really good.

— Jimmy Page

Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with [referring to crystal methamphetamines]”

— Fergie

I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.

— Zooey Deschanel