Musicians Quotes · Page 7

Who needs friends when you have musicians who'll never know you exist...

— Anonymous

I don't really collect guitars like some musicians do.

— Tom Curren

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

— Kenneth Rexroth

Nobody asks me about what male musicians I think about; I only ever get asked about females.

— Lorde

It's so important which musicians we choose for being in the orchestra.

— Andris Nelsons

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

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

— Max Cavalera

Millennials give comics the kind of adulation past generations reserved for musicians. We respect Lady Gaga. But we'll travel hundreds of miles…

— Alexandra Petri

Yes, but the great thing about all the people - and I don't think there is any exception - who I've worked…

— Joan Armatrading

“Artist paint images unseen, musicians create sounds that emerge from silence, and authors write from a synthetic point of view about a…

— Carl Henegan

“Are you gonna sit back there and whack off or are you gonna give us a count? It's me and you to…

— Shari Copell

I don't have actors as friends. There's no actor who's my 3 A.M. friend. There are a couple of musicians whom I…

— Pritam Chakraborty

From being in a film and shooting to just being in a studio with my guitar and musicians was a welcome change.

— Farhan Akhtar

I mean, I could just go round and use session musicians for every song, but I don't find that helps when it…

— Jay Kay

“Nard and I thought it over and came up with some answers via 'band logic,' not to be confused with actual logic.”

— Nile Rodgers

A great conductor is an alchemical force: someone who can absorb the historical weight of a famous melody, the expectations of an…

— Sue Perkins

I don't know why I keep saying this, and I don't know why I keep using their names... And I'm not dogging…

— Sharon Jones

James Ralston, my guitar player, has performed with Tina Turner for about 22 years. Jim Hanson on bass has played with Johnny…

— Vonda Shepard

The trouble with most musicians today is that they are copycats. Of course you have to start out playing like someone else.…

— Lester Young

So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things…

— Gunther Schuller

There were definitely bands and musicians I liked that drove my mother insane. I probably liked them all the more for it!…

— Gillian Jacobs

I love live performance and have huge admiration for people who can really do it. It's the same with music: I'll play…

— Helen McCrory

I can't get very excited about a musician who can do Art Tatum because I've got the Art Tatum records. I want…

— Gary Giddins

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

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

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

— Christian Scott

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

— Elton John

Sometimes, musicians worry too much about how beautifully they are playing.

— Simon Rattle

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

— Cillian Murphy

On Eye of the Zombie, I had so-called studio musicians.

— John Fogerty

And it's a lot harder to hide with four musicians than it is with eight.

— Valerie Simpson

I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.

— David Bowie

I surround myself with incredible musicians who inspire me to always do my best.

— Mike Portnoy

I've got a band that I tour with, and they're not session musicians; they're my friends.

— Sam Fender

Musicians burn through more cash than the Federal Reserve.

— Shawn Amos

In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.

— John Sebastian

We're serious musicians. And we dont want our shows to be circuses.

— Dusty Hill

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

— Ry Cooder

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

— Sara Sheridan

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

— Ilaiyaraaja