Musicians Quotes · Page 5

I love getting to be onstage with so many great musicians.

— Patty Griffin

Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.

— Keith Jarrett

I like to work with different musicians and producers to change the feels of every release.

— Lindi Ortega

I think I'm always surprised at how much the musicians I meet put weight on things that aren't music.

— Aesop Rock

Jazz musicians have always tended to have cult followings, which is pretty wonderful.

— Dianne Reeves

You hear a lot from other musicians that the muse can leave forever.

— Alana Haim

“When all else fails, there is music. When that fails you, there is beer.”

— James Hauenstein

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.

— Branford Marsalis

I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the…

— Elton John

The best thing about a platform like YouTube is that it helps musicians all around the world to reach such a vast…

— Tiffany Hwang

I was a 'Big Brother' fan. I thought they were better musicians than their detractors claimed, but more to the point, technical…

— Ellen Willis

I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other…

— Gary Burton

MusiCares was really good to me. I can't say enough how MusiCares helps other people. They really, really helped me. They have…

— Carlene Carter

There is some sampling on my records and a lot of what I call replays, where I'd have musicians come in the…

— Dr. Dre

Yeah, you'd be surprised how many well known musicians have regular jobs. And yes, I'm a machinist. That's how I made my…

— Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein

I signed at Sony and suddenly they've started to take an interest in Israeli musicians and to listen more, and I send…

— Dennis Lloyd

“It is the poets, artists, and musicians that will carry us through the pandemic attacks into a new reality. They are the…

— Erik Pevernagie

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

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

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

— Tom Morello

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

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

— Shawn Amos

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

I don't know who my real friends are... anymore :/ I put my faith in you, what a stupid thing to do!

— The Veronicas

“You know it is good music when what you listen to spurs you on to create something.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

People don't want their actors acting like musicians.

— Josh Homme

All the best musicians started out in church; Jesus invented rock 'n' roll.

— John Cooper Clarke

We are musicians, entertainers. We can do it. We have the right tools. No worries.

— Pete Townshend

The rap game is for the male is not for the Bisexuality

— Black Son Beats

Both my grandfathers and my mother's brother were musicians.

— Sturgill Simpson

I wouldn't be who I am if my parents hadn't been musicians.

— Mabel

[Too many musicians are] too involved with doing and not listening.

— Ray Still

A good song is a good song, and good musicians can play all different styles.

— John Doe

Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.

— Eddie Van Halen

I think a lot of musicians and artists are really one that really only have one trick.

— Christian Scott

We musicians often get inspiration from films and books or photographs, not only by music.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

I like to share my metal with other musicians. It's very cool.

— Max Cavalera

Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style.

— Gunther Schuller

I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history.

— Henry Rollins