Musicians Quotes · Page 2

A lot of good musicians made me look good.

— Cosimo Matassa

“Life's a bitch and so am I.”

— Pete Townshend

Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere.

— Mike Zwerin

I think most musicians do like to have a laugh.

— Neil Innes

“Musicians are PHENOMENAL.”

— Stephanie Lahart

Worship the music, not the musicians.

— Eddie Vedder

I came from a huge extended family of musicians.

— Jake Epstein

“These trumpeters of reality are bad musicians.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It's embarrassing sometimes, the way actors or musicians sometimes get made untouchable.

— Cillian Murphy

What we should be doing as musicians is trying to bring people together.

— Elton John

Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.

— Chico Hamilton

We want MySpace users to connect with celebrities in the same way that they do with musicians.

— Tom Anderson

Musicians tell me, if what I'm doing is right, they should never have gone to school.

— Ornette Coleman

Good music is made with the help of many musicians who express their joy in the swaras.

— Ilaiyaraaja

“Musicians are the worst – they’re charming if you’re lucky but they ain’t steady.”

— Sara Sheridan

Musicians communicate in other ways. That's just something you rely on.

— Ry Cooder

I couldn't do what I do without the encouragement and influence of the musicians I played with in Chicago.

— Kurt Elling

Canada is a country of ingredients without a cuisine; we're a country with musicians without an indigenous instrument; Toronto's a city that…

— Mike Myers

I enjoy seeing other Indian musicians - old and young - coming to Europe and America and having some success. I'm happy…

— Ravi Shankar

We grew up with musicians coming over jamming. We had tons of instruments. So holidays were always like, 50 people would come…

— Elisabeth Moss

Musicians are like politicians. They're the last people who should be making music, just like politicians are the last people who should…

— Nigel Godrich

I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparation and their utter devotion to…

— Jessye Norman

Country music's always had the best musicians in any format of music, and I always gravitated toward that, stuff that was musically…

— Brad Paisley

I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed.

— Elton John

When I first started, I didn't know what I was doing. I was such a - like a kid that got into…

— Dr. John

Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother were both musicians and so I'm a musician.…

— Sam Rivers

I'm a mad fan of American guitarist Ry Cooder and he made a record using Mexican musicians, but with American soul singers…

— Paul Young

I started off playing by ear, and being around a bunch of musicians and playing in the streets and in the different…

— Troy Andrews

I have a feeling a lot of the records I grew up listening to and the records I still like, as hard…

— Chino Moreno

I'm a music fan - I love meeting other musicians, I love talking to other musicians - and what greater opportunity to…

— Gord Downie

As a recording engineer - someone who is deeply embroiled in the process of making records every day - you see trends…

— Steve Albini

“There are hundreds of thousands of musicians, artists, painters, poets, writers and bricklayers, and we certainly need walls, music and art, but…

— Karl Wiggins

I owe everything to the musicians I work with.

— Robert Plant

Musicians have always adopted Macs.

— Trent Reznor

Musicians own music because music owns them.

— Virgil Thomson

Well, my musicians are my friends.

— Prince

All the musicians that I know want to act.

— Juliette Lewis

Music chooses her musicians.

— Patricia Barber

We're musicians; we're not politicians or anything.

— Johnny Van Zant

Musicians are in-season all the time.

— John Legend