Musician Quotes

No matter what you do, you'll never run away from you.

The marvels of God are not brought forth from one's self. Rather, it is more like a chord, a sound that is played. The tone does not come out of the chord itself, but rather, through the touch of the musician. I am, of course, the lyre and harp of God's kindness.

Marijuana is taken by musicians. And I'm not speaking about good musicians, but the jazz type.

I want longevity; I love music, being a musician is the greatest gift in the world to me, and if I were to get signed to a label, my family and team around me are always gonna be there to make sure they want the very best for me. My fans are what it's all about.

Don't let the same dog bite you twice.

Success is nice, but it shouldn't be the only reason why you're a musician.

Your body is merely a machine made to express the thoughts that flow through you and nothing more. It is but an instrument for you to express your imagings just as a piano is an instrument for a musician to express his imagings. Just as the piano is not the musician, so, likewise, your body is not you.

Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.

As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.

A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance.

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.

It is only when we become aware that our time is limited that we can channel our energy into truly living

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.

It was about working with other musicians, but more than that it's about exploring musical areas that you could never do with the band you're in, in my case Judas Priest. You could tackle musical areas and lyrical areas that wouldn't be appropriate for Priest.

In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.

I think we’re at the stage where we’re not musicians but not idols either. In a way, we also feel bad for being called idols

We all feel love, and that might sound kind of corny, but I really feel that's what joins musicians together around the world.

Hawaiian to me is a feeling of getting somewhere, without stepping on anybodys toes, without causing friction with anybody.

And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians.

I think one of the things which always is forgotten in music class, is the first thing you have to do as a musician is you have to learn how to listen.

Love isn't love until you give it away.

It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians are, for better or worse, prisoners of Gutenberg.

Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with 'Stairway to Heaven.'

Being a musician is a noble profession.

Writing songs is cheaper than going to therapy.

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest.

The planet is asleep and it's the fault of musicians who are untrue to themselves.

I was approached by Oxfam to go to Mali as their ambassador and get involved in their various initiatives out there. But I felt that was missing the point of using me, a musician

People who have gone, are still here, in us. Places we came from, are carried to the places we go.

Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch.

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them.

Having played with other musicians, I don't even think The Beatles were that good.

A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

Music comes from the musician, not the instrument.

I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies

If all you have is music, then you don't have music

The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work.

My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally he'd let me visit where he worked. So I started going to his recording studio, and I really dug it.

The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.

An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician.

I think most musicians do like to have a laugh.

I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.

It will lead many musicians out of the cul-de-sac they currently face. And those that do not understand will be cursed to make disposable music on laptops forever.

Buddy Rich was one of the most incredible technicians in the world, on this planet, but the only people he could really impress, who knew what he was doing was another musician or another drummer.

I once painted a concert singer and on the chestnut frame I carved the opening bars of Mendelssohn's Rest in the Lord. It was ornamental unobtrusive and to musicians I think it emphasized the expression of the face and pose of the figure.

I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated.

Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo.