Musicians Quotes · Page 12

So many policy decisions that effect musicians are being made without any input from musicians at all.

— Erin McKeown

There's a large difference between someone listen to music by ears and someone enjoy it by heart

— Black Son Beats

“Nashville has always been competitive. My granddaddy called it the Hillbilly Babylon.”

— Hunter S. Jones

Musicians keep playing when the lights go out, when people are suffering, confused, or angry.

— Stephen Hough

The great musicians are those who can reach people, who can make people feel something.

— Sam Rivers

I don't feel like that many musicians are competitive with each other.

— John Legend

Prince, I think, trained amazing musicians to bring more to any musical table they come to.

— Nancy Wilson

My downfall emotionally is musicians and songwriters.

— Marcia Strassman

There are not many musicians from India who are working internationally in pop. My aim is to change that and show the…

— Ananya Birla

None of my kids want to be actors. They are actually very interested in being musicians. I think they like the process…

— Angelina Jolie

Jodi Melnick is hotly self-absorbed. Her onstage musicians are much too loud, and like so many narcissistic performers, she goes on much…

— Robert Gottlieb

There's a different feeling when you've played with musicians for 30 years. A lot of stuff doesn't even need to be said,…

— Joe Walsh

Certain jazz musicians just copy what was done 100 years ago. The music won't grow if nobody takes a risk.

— Trombone Shorty

I was about to leave L.A. because I didn't find enough soul in the musicians. Back in Virginia, it was just leaking…

— Masego

There's a kind of intimacy that can happen between musicians, and if they're people you enjoy and respect as humans, that intimacy…

— Sunny Ozell

I've always had money because of my early success with Cream, so I tell young musicians to aim to write their own…

— Jack Bruce

Even the greatest musicians, they only represent themselves. You represent who you are and what your experiences are and what you have…

— Kamasi Washington

History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to…

— Steve Vai

I know a lot of people that have had fake Twitters... actors and musicians that I know. It's sort of a problem.…

— Zooey Deschanel

The availability of downloads is fantastic, but you don't know which musicians are playing on the songs anymore. It's kind of making…

— Paul Young

I have a hard time with musicians who act like pricks because it just makes me mad. I just sit there and…

— Isaac Hanson

Musicians like James Blake were a big influence on me. How he uses his vocals is amazing. And then Yeasayer and Animal…

— Lorde

When you're filming, if you can't capture the relationships and interplay, that magical thing that transpires between musicians during a performance, then…

— Jonathan Demme

'New Jack City' was a perfect marriage of music and film. They used a lot of musicians: myself, Christopher Williams. People that…

— Ice T

Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.

— Colin Greenwood

The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.

— Wadada Leo Smith

When you are surrounded by talented musicians, you learn so much from them.

— Sid Sriram

“He was rugged, sexy and mysterious, all the things I never knew I wanted.”

— Kathey Gray

There's something extremely fragile about musicians, and that's their strength.

— Lisa Gerrard

Musicians are, by and large, not the most politically savvy crew.

— Ben Shapiro

It's always been my time. I'm a musician, and musicians are time-less.

— Scarface

Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other.

— David Steinberg

Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.

— Henry Rollins

“Musicians are artists, as silence is their canvas.”

— Mark Hewer

When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.

— Noel Gallagher

Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.

— Henry Rollins

You have gigantic companies feeding off musicians and artists because the artists need the exposure.

— Jimmy Iovine

When I was a kid, I played the piano for six years, and all my family are musicians.

— Tina Maze

I'm always pulling and really feeding off of my inspirations. I think most musicians do.

— Robert Trujillo

We all know the record biz don't pay. All musicians have day jobs - no matter how big they are.

— Shawn Amos