Biographies Quote by Sri Chinmoy

A musician's whole life is to listen.

— Wynton Marsalis

I don't much listen to music as I study it: who's doing what, who wrote it.

— Sixto Rodriguez

Independent music gives a musician that chance to narrate their personal journey through music.

— Jubin Nautiyal

I don't know whether you [musician] can be all things to everybody, which is why there are different kinds of music.

— Gene Simmons

There's a responsibility as a musician to do the music that you want to hear.

— El-P

The back story of a songwriter isn't important to me - I don't listen to music needing to know who the guy is.

— Jakob Dylan

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression…

— John Drinkwater

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

— Brandon Sanderson

Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.

— Charles Hazlewood

Songwriting is writing about the human experience.

— Tyler Childers

The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.

— Duke Ellington

The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of…

— Yo-Yo Ma