Musicians Quotes · Page 21

I have one message for young musicians around the world: Stay true to your heart, believe in yourself, and work hard.

— Joe Cocker

Great musicians are great musicians, whether they're playing a trombone or an electric guitar or a xylophone.

— Chris Stapleton

I guess fortunate that I'm still around and I emphasize I guess because you never can tell what musicians would be playing…

— Sonny Rollins

I was very lucky that more experienced musicians allowed me to caterwaul until I figured out what it was really about.

— Kurt Elling

I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.

— Gary Burton

A woman will one day prove to me that love exist and She will open new doors for my heart. Until then…

— Jasari

The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those…

— Danger Mouse

I've been asked why does Ireland produce so many great musicians, and the answer is it doesn't. When you count the great…

— Roddy Doyle

“Musicians have always had a better understanding of love than the rest of us. Over the years they have told us that…

— Cuthbert Soup

I've always taken a lot of joy in my work, but it's also been very results-oriented. It's kind of like, making the…

— Chris Thile

I want to make music and songs about things that real musicians and artist aren't able to make songs about - you…

— Jake Paul

Year after year, we see a new crop of musicians who do their best to look tough in lipstick and makeup. Maybe…

— Shawn Amos

Less is more' may be a cliche, but that doesn't mean musicians often heed that advice. Swedish singer-songwriter Kristian Matsson, who performs…

— Anthony Fantano

When I moved to Hollywood, I was expecting it to be this Mecca of extraordinarily talented musicians, and it was instead the…

— Tom Morello

I don't do anything digital. Everything is analog, and that's a limitation for me. However, in my world, it's not a limitation…

— Adrian Younge

I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going…

— James Taylor

Hats off to musicians who just want a pure escape. I have a lot of fondness for pure escapism. I don't feel…

— Chris Thile

“If some musicians put half as much effort in to the business side as they do their outer look and appearances, they…

— Loren Weisman

Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.

— John Perry Barlow

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.

— Nat King Cole

So, my records really didn't sell, but musicians started picking up on my sound and my songs and cutting my songs and…

— J. J. Cale

AWe musicians can influence, and are responsible to influence, human hearts when we perform. We have to touch them.

— Andris Nelsons

The constructive criticism that I take very seriously is from people I know and respect, and they don't have to be musicians.…

— Chris Thile

Jazzy Jeff is somebody who taught me what I really wanted to do for other people. He has the big ol' house…

— Masego

Musicians and artists, they are going to stand together for community and you are going to bring people in and figure out…

— Susan Tedeschi

Most of the musicians I play with - aside from the form and structure of the music - the interpretation is up…

— Allan Holdsworth

I think what made John Lennon so exciting as an artist is that, like Dylan and other musicians with a truly important…

— Randy Bachman

In fact, many musicians are the happiest when the artist and audience re-interpret or re-imagine the content of the songs.

— John Dyer Baizley

I'm envious of writers and musicians. I think it must be so difficult. Not just the frustration, but the discipline.

— Michael Keaton

Getting this caliber of musicians together [for "90 Millas" CD in September of 2007] is almost impossible to do again.

— Gloria Estefan

None of my family are musicians, but there was a lot of classic rock and country going on. I always wanted to…

— Phoebe Bridgers

It's interesting because neither of my parents play instruments. They both love music, but neither of them are musicians. Somehow, I was…

— Rostam Batmanglij

My parents were both very musically inclined, they were both songwriters and musicians, so we grew up in the house singing music…

— Jesse McCartney

What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's…

— Daniel Barenboim

I'm always trying to think of something clever and fun to do with the music. There's so many cool things musicians and…

— Robert Coppola Schwartzman

One of the great things about being in a band is that you meet so many other musicians who will turn you…

— Alasdair MacLean

I visit studios. Just to get the feel, the smell, and see what other people are doing. Not only listening to the…

— Jimmy Cliff

The fact that a total of 18 musicians humbly came together to share the glory and create something this original, epic, and…

— James Moore

I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't…

— Bryan Adams

Lady Gaga is one of the most amazingly talented musicians to bring her gifts to humanity in a long time.

— Jared Polis