Ends Quote by Roy Ayers

“Listening to music, I realized, was simply the pleasure of counting without realizing you were counting.”

— Matt Haig

Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk…

— Michael Azerrad

Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.

— Gottfried Leibniz

What I envy about musicians is, they have this more direct relationship with the audience. They don't have to go through words. Sure, the…

— Jeff VanderMeer

If I were doing a real rock show, slapping the phone book in time to the music, grooving with the songs, then it would…

— Casey Kasem

Most musicians make the same record every time, and that's fine. But the people I respected when I was growing up, like Jeff Beck…

— Gary Moore

I prefer to hear an artist's work and what they can do, so as far as I'm concerned, I'd get a lot more out…

— Jimmy Page

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

— Nat Hentoff

“All people are musicians" Wit countered. "The question is whether or not they share their songs.”

— Brandon Sanderson

Musicians have to do what they do and express it musically. All the blah blah blah will get lost in the dialogue.

— Carlos Alomar

Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking.

— Ry Cooder

I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over…

— Boz Scaggs