Musicians Quotes · Page 14

I'm big fans of all those musicians, B.B. King, Mick Jagger - they're all on my iPod.

— Trombone Shorty

The musicians I really looked up to as a kid were the ones who could play everything.

— Kamasi Washington

Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.

— Tommy Chong

I've always tried to be a poet more than anything else. I mean, professional musicians die.

— Cecil Taylor

The hardest thing with musicians is getting them not to play.

— Prince

Hopefully, I can stay around a lot of young musicians and feed off of them.

— Trombone Shorty

“A quiet mind allows the artist to tap into the wellspring of Divine Music within.”

— Kenny Werner

The battle over Napster has divided musicians and industry officials.

— Parker Conrad

Mental health is personal for our whole band. As touring musicians, self-care can quickly become make it or break it on the…

— John Gourley

I studied jazz at home with my grandparents. They always had jazz dudes at the house, but I didn't study formally. I…

— Madlib

The thing about hip-hop producers, and the thing about hip-hop musicians, is that we listen to everything. And we're inspired by everything.…

— El-P

Everyone has to work hard, there is no short-cut. If you keep working hard there are a lot of musicians on a…

— Neeti Mohan

There's nothing wrong with becoming a role model, nothing wrong with inspiring people to become musicians, to become actors.

— David Cassidy

The problem is we never had a separate music industry, we always had film music industry. The west has it and that's…

— Neha Bhasin

I'm not going to ask musicians to sit there and pretend to play. It feels insulting to the musicians to me.

— Chris Stapleton

I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can…

— Miles Davis

I think you look around the world in general, and who are the most popular people in the world? You can say…

— Case Keenum

It still amazes me how many musicians aren't really interested in engaging with their audience at all. Alfred Brendel, a pianist for…

— Charles Hazlewood

Jazz is not about getting and playing whatever notes you want. It is about reworking themes in a manner that sounds good,…

— John Kao

“When a work of painting, music or other form attains two-way communication, it is truly art. One occasionally hears an artist being…

— L. Ron Hubbard

One of the main things I look for in a guitarist is in the sound itself. I go for a certain sound,…

— John Petrucci

There's a bit of a new guard of contemporary classical musicians in New York, and we play a lot of different kinds…

— Caroline Shaw

We're not just R&B guys. We can do pop, rock, blues . . . a wide variety. We are musicians and play…

— Damon Thomas

You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a…

— Fred Frith

Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.

— Jack Bruce

Actors want to be musicians, and musicians want to be baseball players.

— Mike McCready

Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general.

— Lionel Hampton

I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each.

— Les Baxter

I think musicians have always been drinking and sharing a good wine. It is, I hate to say this, another form of…

— Tom Araya

Sometimes being a musician has little to do with viability and everything to do with survivability. Many musicians start out great, and…

— Todd Rundgren

I rather create better music and let that talk, than me going out and dissing other musicians in public.

— Badshah

The Dead Daisies have been an absolute blast for me so far. The guys are all great musicians and also incredibly easy…

— John Corabi

I'm in touch with musicians Jake Morley, Lewis Watson and Olivia Broadfield, who are extremely talented.

— Neeti Mohan

I think Baltimore is a wonderful artistic community with a lot of great musicians. It's kind of like a little secret for…

— Weyes Blood

Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general.

— Wynton Marsalis

It's funny, there aren't too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There's a few - the really brilliant ones.

— Dave Grohl

Musicians of any era - whether it be The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Rage Against the Machine, or, of course, Madonna -…

— Renzo Rosso

Everyone knows I'm a huge fan of Chris Brown and Justin Timberlake. For me, it would be more than an honor to…

— Maluma

I try to listen to as much as possible. I know some people really try to avoid music when they're writing and…

— Devendra Banhart

In Japan, there has always been a small number of musicians who have been outspoken on social issues, but they tend to…

— Ryuichi Sakamoto