Band Quote by David James Elliott

I think it's important for a young musician to stick with a band for a while and really work with a band and stay…

— Mike Portnoy

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

— Lester Young

It's just a joy to be able to work with a lot of different musicians. When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled…

— Cass McCombs

As a musician usually music is your way out.

— Damon Albarn

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

— Ornette Coleman

I get to work with a lot of great musicians - many I wouldn't have expected to work with - and see how they…

— Hilary Hahn

A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren't as smart as me...

— Mark E. Smith

Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay…

— Steve Martin

There are a lot better musicians than me out there that just haven't had the luck to fall into everything like I have.

— Glenn Tipton

It's easy to get on to something like alcohol or drugs so my advice to musicians is don't lose your perspective because you will…

— Joe Walsh

I do not play to musicians. I play to the people.

— Dick Dale

Musicians know all about unemployment. You're unemployed a lot, and I think there's a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are…

— Billy Joel