Best Musicians Sayings

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Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments. — Benny Goodman
Not only did I get to play with these great international musicians, but I also had the opportunity to jam with the local celebrities in… — Jeff Healey
If youre going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If youre going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation… — Branford Marsalis
A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format. — Branford Marsalis
If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to… — Branford Marsalis
Walter Beasley is an anomaly: a successful performing musician who possesses the rare skill of understanding the musical process beyond the intuitive. This special ability… — Branford Marsalis
Painters can study the masters can't they? Musicians can hear Beethoven. What will filmmakers do? — Eva Marie Saint
All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That's all I… — Janis Joplin
A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you listen, anybody with an ear… — Miles Davis
I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me — Rosanna Arquette
I think musicians oftentimes have the right skill set to be good actors. And with Rihanna, I noticed her and knew of her obviously, and… — Peter Berg
Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town. — Steven Curtis Chapman
Still, I wonder if more women artists, musicians and writers aren't household names because we don't have enough faith in our own pursuits to give… — Holly Robinson Peete
The trouble with most musicians today is that they are copycats. Of course you have to start out playing like someone else. You have a model, or… — Lester Young
If John Lennon is deported, I'm leaving too...with my musicians..and my marijuana. — Art Garfunkel
And with a few moments like that, with doubt from here and there, and within ourselves we were just striving for excellence. We had somehow… — JÃ¸rn Utzon
Music criticism should be to musicians what ornithology is to the birds. — Yuja Wang
Some performers are brilliant comedians, some are genius musicians, and some just make you happy to be alive. THE BOBS are all of that -… — Paul Provenza
I don't have anything to say about the guy [Muddy Waters], you know. Treat me all right. But I can this: they are jealous hearted,… — Howlin' Wolf
We are musicians, entertainers. We can do it. We have the right tools. No worries. — Pete Townshend
I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young — Pat Metheny
My dad's side of the family had lots of artists and musicians. There's an emotional, quite sentimental quality to Slavic culture. It's very open, it… — Nick Clegg
We were brash young fellows. I was always hanging with the older crowd anyway. The musicians were the Hip Cats, and I was hanging with… — Bootsy Collins
I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians. — Gary Larson
For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him. — Virginia Woolf

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