Musician Quotes · Page 58

The amount of exposure you get in India as a musician in Bollywood is so much better than what one gets independently.

— Amit Trivedi

Once the jazz musician learns all the fundamentals they can keep track of a lot of choices in an instant.

— Sheena Iyengar

You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste.

— Bradford Cox

Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever?

— Henry David Thoreau

Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.

— Jimmy Page

I'm a horrible musician, but I've been fortunate enough to play great songs.

— Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein

The internet has a way of mainstreaming everything. Any artist, any musician, any sexual kink, any political view point, it's all there.

— Arthur Jones

I have found that the best cure for self pity is to do something to help someone else.

— Carl Orr

I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or…

— John Tesh

There is a limited supply of excellent songs, but I am not the only one. Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters…

— Noel Gallagher

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in…

— Albert Einstein

There are so many things I want to do. Like, I want to get an artist, a musician, a photographer, and a…

— Channing Tatum

The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest jazz musicians will…

— Ahmet Ertegun

I see that you are working this vampire angle with some success. And kudos. Lots of girls love that sensitive-undead thing. But…

— Cassandra Clare

I'm a self-taught musician so how I read music is kind of very weak and I kind of read my own version…

— Jason Mraz

My dad was a professional musician; my mom played, too, but just for fun. All my siblings played. The house was full…

— Kamasi Washington

If your gig is not in an office for eight hours a day, its going to be somewhere. If you're a truck…

— Joel Plaskett

I didn't have any aspirations of becoming famous or successful; in fact I was scared to death of all that. I remember…

— Steve Vai

The ideal set-up would be the story man, the director, and the layout man, as well as musician, operating as a sort…

— Walt Disney

The trouble with most musicians today is that they are copycats. Of course you have to start out playing like someone else.…

— Lester Young

Straight away, remove yourself from the field of spiritual progression , stay away from contemplation and skillful discourse, do not do research…

— Abhinavagupta

When I came to New York, to Brooklyn, I met Alvin Ailey and Stanley Crouch and August Wilson. They were always putting…

— Wynton Marsalis

It was actually the production group that ended up producing the show for us...Every musician, especially in the hip-hop community, you always…

— Mike Stud

We ought to give our friend pain if it will benefit him, but not to the extent of breaking off our friendship;…

— Plutarch

Everything I hear influences me. I can't tell you all my influences as a musician.

— Lemmy

We wouldn't be artists, writers, painters, musicians, if we weren't sensitive.

— Wayne Coyne

I see love in black and white. Passion in shades of “gris”. But when it comes to you and I, color is…

— Lady Gaga

I am an observer of life, a non-participant who takes no sides. I am in the regimented society, but not of it.

— Moondog

When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba.

— Compay Segundo

I love anyone who breaks the rules, and musicians always break the rules - in an aggressive way.

— Donatella Versace

It's important for me to be with a musician or someone who has a creative mind.

— Amy Winehouse

I still have a hard time just calling myself a musician. If I'm talking to somebody and they ask me what I…

— Grant Evans

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

— Henry Moore

Apart from being a playback singer for films, I'm also an independent musician.

— Adnan Sami

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

— Janis Joplin

Pretty much every artist in Scotland - musician, writer, poet, actor - they're all part of a thing called the National Collective.

— Roddy Woomble

Any musician in any band - for a really good band - you know your part in the band.

— Duff McKagan

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better…

— Stan Getz

[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.

— Henry Adams

The big corporations and the big companies turned musicians into factory workers on an assembly line.

— Ray Davies