Musicians Quotes


I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for.

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

I try not to become friends with musicians but life happens and dinner happens and going out happens - it becomes interwoven in L.A.

... Clear Channel owns all the major radio stations and venues. Most musicians aren't aware that a few people control so much of what we hear...

Under Thatcher who ruled us with an iron rod great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and progressive.

We are all part of creation all kings all poets all musicians; we have only to open up only to discover what is already there.

I think musicians are always supportive of each other because they want the groove to keep going on. They just basically want to play music.

The fate of the African continent does not f-ing depend on a load of f-ing musicians in Hyde Park singing f-ing s-t songs to kids.

I went to college and stage school and thought about acting but... I just don't like actors very much! They're not as fun as musicians.

When you are confronted with an opera you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians the chorus the ballet the singers the staging.

The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do the kind of musicians I choose is just what I like to hear.

All comics want to be musicians. There's a part of me that wants to be a serious musician. I love songs about heartache and heartbreak.

I just wanted to tell the story of a bunch of musicians who had never had their story told before. There's no preaching or theorizing.

In theory I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in all the musicians in them are long since dead.

To me groups of musicians playing together not fighting each other but playing a groove together is one of the most exciting things to listen to.

If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing to keep spiritually hungry and horny that's what it's all about.

Haute couture is like an orchestra for which only Balenciaga is the conductor. The rest of us are just musicians following the directions he gives us.

I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer.

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity for creating something that's never been before the art form of jazz will flourish.

I've been so used to being supported by musicians and I don't class myself as a particularly adept musician on instruments. I think I'm a songwriter.

A lot of my friends are struggling musicians. Being a struggling actor it's just frustrating because you're not allowed to do what you want to do

There was a lot of stuff happening in Havana that was being heard and appreciated by New Orleans musicians because of this situation. And vice versa.

I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process I always tried to maintain my curiosity and spontaneity.

The Red Comyns had always done well behind the throne. The king was but an instrument as his father used to say. They were the musicians.

If I write for myself I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.

Great musicians you don't just hear them you feel them. When I listen to Randy Rhoads I feel every note. I learned a lot from him.

If you're trying to connect to people with music - it's more of an outward process and a lot of times musicians can be very inward.

I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.

I know a lot of actors who started out as musicians and have very successful careers as actors but most people don't know them as musicians.

I honestly haven't thought much about what to play and where perhaps i should...it seems like most musicians are better at that than I am.

There's a lot of integrity with musicians; you really still aspire to grow and be great to be the best version of yourself you can be.

It's hard to find five musicians who know what the other is going to do before they do it. And that's what we had in GN'R.

I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie.

I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.

I think people want to put you in a box and close it away so that it makes them feel better. A lot of musicians get that.

I enjoy seeing other Indian musicians - old and young - coming to Europe and America and having some success. I'm happy to have contributed to that.

The public is usually slow to catch on to new things and its important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.

The public is usually slow to catch on to new things and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.

If some musicians put half as much effort in to the business side as they do their outer look and appearances they could be twice as far.

(When asked for advice for younger musicians) "Break windows smoke cigars and stay up late. Tell 'em to do that they'll find a little pot of gold.

I know a lot of great musicians that don't know they're even great because mangers try and make them feel belittled like they're not worth a crap.

The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me.

That's for non-musicians to say: "I only listen to this or that type of music." I think musicians love all music or at least that's my case.

I always end up working with people that do a really good job so I'm the only one that I'm worried about disappointing me not the musicians ever.

I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.

I'll leave it to other people to evaluate the legacy of my book but I'm very moved when musicians tell me that they've been inspired by my book.

I had a chance to play with the best musicians that were coming through because I was pretty good myself or else they wouldn't have tolerated with me.

I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers.

When I do the music I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.

What the world is saying to us human beings is 'Don't stick to the old ways learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.

My family is full of musicians and a couple of times a year we get together and jam at my cousin's studio. We improvise and have a great time.

I have a soft spot for musicians. If a man could ride this roller coaster with me and come out alive then I guess we'd deserve each other's company.

The only advice we gave Richie Faulkner was we wanted Richie to be his own guy. You have to let your musicians in your band be who they are.

As I grew up I wasn't a great buyer of albums but I really liked 'The Jam.' I like good musicians and loved the energy of their songs.

I love to play. And fortunately I don't know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones and they're always up for playing.

I actually started playing in little cafes around New York and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.

They sign a bunch of women and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.

I love music and I love musicians. I separate them. I'm a big fan of Lily Allen's music but I'm not a fan of her personality. I differentiate the two.

I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it's going to happen but as musicians I think we've got to step up and say 'come on'.

I mean roots musicians - we can get old you know? We can get up there and wear overalls and deliver the songs we don't have to look any certain way.

My guys studied music from a young age and I did not so I think like adding the idiot to the table of very talented musicians gave us a unique rub.

I don't go around the way many musicians do with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just sticking my head in the music all the time.

I talk to people who are musicians and they go Oh this is hell. And I go Are you kidding me? You never put tar paper on a roof did ya?

You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.

Musicians are in-season all the time.

Musicians are the architects of heaven.

Musicians own music because music owns them.

Musicians are not so concerned with language.

Musicians are artists as silence is their canvas.

Musicians burn through more cash than the Federal Reserve.

Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.

Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking.

Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.

Musicians communicate in other ways. That's just something you rely on.

Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.

Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.

Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience because there's no language barrier.

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

Musicians more than most people are in the moment. That's the dual nature of that job.

Musicians are very mysterious and wonderful people to me; I don't know how they do it.

Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.

Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over so I think it's natural to experiment.

Musicians have made incredible contributions to the conservation and environmental movement and continue to do so more than ever.

Musicians playing together it's a conversation and ideally I want our conversation to be really intriguing and interesting and beautiful.

Musicians are so well covered in the press it would be great to see more outspoken practitioners of green life.

Musicians can look forward to playing with the best musicians that ever played. They can even have their own band!

Musicians ultimately are who they are they aren't actors so as a clipmaker you have a responsibility to protect them.

Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians with jazz musicians musicians in general.

The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.

Musicians coming together at a time of need is one of the great traditions in this country. It's like people taking charge.

Writing is an art like other arts. Dancers don't dance every once in a while. Musicians don't stop practicing. They are dedicated to what they do.

When a street musician lowered his violin to inquire 'Hey lovely what you got there?' she said 'Musicians who ask questions ' and kept on dragging.

As far as artists and musicians they don't retire. They might tour less.

Like family we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

I think performers are all show-offs anyway especially musicians. Unless you show off you're not going to get noticed.

I think musicians have always been drinking and sharing a good wine. It is I hate to say this another form of vice.

Our parents were musicians.

We're not spokespeople we're musicians.

I know girls like musicians!

Both of my parents were musicians.

My family isn't posh; they're musicians.

All musicians are potential band leaders.

Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.

I'm just one of these unpopular musicians.

Really good musicians don't think of "self-reflection".

I feel really different from other musicians.

I think musicians should stay off television generally.

Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere.

Why do visual artists 'work' and musicians 'play?

People want to build musicians into mythical beings.

Nobody gives a crap if we're great musicians.

I came from a huge extended family of musicians.

Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.

All the musicians that I know want to act.

All the people I hung out with were musicians.

Verbal communication about music is impossible except among musicians.

When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra I get 30.

I owe everything to the musicians I work with.

Strange people like chefs musicians and politicians affect me.

A wedding is like a funeral but with musicians.

The death of young musicians isn't something to romanticize

I feel albino musicians could neutralise all the racial problems.

If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.

Astronomers like burglars and jazz musicians operate best at night.

Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.

The musicians one day are going to listen to me.

On Eye of the Zombie I had so-called studio musicians.

Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes.

I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

There's something extremely fragile about musicians and that's their strength.

I think most musicians do like to have a laugh.

My family was all musicians. We jam all the time.

Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians.

The point is technology has empowered so many musicians you know?

I love Fun. They're great guys. They're incredible artists and musicians.

musicians rarely have a sense of humour at least about themselves.

I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.

It's important for all worship musicians to pour into young people.

Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.

[Too many musicians are] too involved with doing and not listening.

Um musicians are funnier you know than actors on the whole.

In ancient times the greatest of the prophets were great musicians.

Don't get me wrong I've seen some very excellent women musicians.

What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.

We wouldn't be artists writers painters musicians if we weren't sensitive.

Had I children my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.

I write bars for the musicians because they have to be together.

An element I love about the blues is jamming with other musicians.

The best musicians are not the best players they're the best listeners.

I don't feel like that many musicians are competitive with each other.

Not all musicians believe in god but they all believe in Bach

The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.

Actors always want to be musicians and musicians want to be actors

The Internet has definitely opened doors and leveled the playing field for musicians.

Rock musicians are consistent in their disdain and irreverent treatment of Jesus Christ.

Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.

Stereotyping and generating brands around musicians I think contributes to their eventual demise.

Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising certainly not in a jazz style.

My family were all musicians. I really wasn't interested in school or anything.

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

I love song writing so I'm always happy to write for other musicians.

What we should be doing as musicians is trying to bring people together.

Since music has never had a Rembrandt we have remained nothing more than musicians.

The best musicians answer something in you when you don't even know the question.

It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians

I feel that musicians are in a fellowship and that fellowship is a responsibility.

When it comes to musicians I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba.

Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.

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

Classical musicians go to the conservatories rock´n roll musicians go to the garages.

I don't play for the guitarists in the audience. I play for the musicians.

Jazz musicians are the coolest people on the planet. Can I have some cool?

I wish I played guitar so I could start a band with great musicians.

Aside from comic book heroes the only real life heroes I had were musicians.

You must remember I grew up around music. Three of my family were musicians.

It is only the most elite of elite musicians whose unconventional approach becomes convention.

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other.

The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing.

All of these people kept on being professional musicians and composers in the strictest sense.

There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musicians.

The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape.

The great musicians are those who can reach people who can make people feel something.

I think filmmakers all secretly wanna be musicians and all musicians secretly wanna be filmmakers.

And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.

We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it.

A lot of times jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?

We are in a position as musicians to touch the souls of those who listen.

What'd I tell you about musicians? That bad boy type will only break your heart.

Some musicians are not great technicians but they give you a rich point of view.

We are musicians entertainers. We can do it. We have the right tools. No worries.

A good song is a good song and good musicians can play all different styles.

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

I'm trying everything I can not to be jaded 'cause I don't like jaded musicians.

When a lot of musicians change styles their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.

You know what rock musicians are? They are hung up neurotic over-weight hippies with sex problems.

The big corporations and the big companies turned musicians into factory workers on an assembly line.

[Slogan of her 'Trouble Bureau' for needy artists and musicians:] Happiness is a change of trouble.

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

It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet.

My parents were opera singers and voice teachers so growing up I admired musicians and dancers.

We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians.

Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.

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

I'm definitely a victim of some weird twisted form of not really relating to female musicians.

The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians.

I'm all in favor of getting grants for musicians. Or any other good brand of Scotch.

A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.

There have always been huge musicians and poets in Uruguay but Uruguay is a well-kept secret.

I come from a town of great musicians: Washington D.C. It's no joke that history.

It's hard to find other musicians that push you to go somewhere new all the time.

Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians.

I used to have a lot of envy for those musicians who have been universally loved.

To be up on stage and interacting with musicians that was a huge epiphany for me.

I like to work with different musicians and producers to change the feels of every release.

So many policy decisions that effect musicians are being made without any input from musicians at all.

There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away.

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.

By and large musicians respect New York audiences and also are greatly concerned about New York reviews.

I guess I'm used to seeing actors but rock musicians still hold a special magic for me.

I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.

I found that jazz musicians possibly more than their classical counterparts wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully.

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted musicians denoted?

I'm going to get drunk and insult as many musicians from the 80's as is humanly possible.

Up-and-coming musicians can easily reach out and find a loving teacher and that's definitely what happened to me.

I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young

Success breeds volume and it's just amazing how many young writers artists and musicians there are in town.

I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people including other musicians.

Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners.

I think it's time to travel start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.

I've been collaborating with Ira Schickman on some songs and there will be many other great musicians involved.

I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public we're there to make converts.

I love anyone who breaks the rules and musicians always break the rules - in an aggressive way.

I thought I had swell ideas and wonderful musicians but the hell of it no one else did.

A lot of my friends are musicians or artists and their talent always pushes me to think creatively.

Many of the African musicians are well-schooled and well-versed...what they do takes a high level of musicianship.

You don't find geniuses in street musicians but that doesn't mean to say you can't be really good.

[Jazz musicians ] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.

Getting this caliber of musicians together [for "90 Millas" CD in September of 2007] is almost impossible to do again.

In other words musicians know that going back to the Spoonful what we were doing was not copying.

I am not afraid to die because I know heaven is a place of artists musicians and poets

Music might tame and civilize wild beasts but 'tis evident it never yet could tame and civilize musicians.

We're not going to be the coolest rock stars in the world. We're trying to be good musicians.

So many people I was at school with have all ended up being musicians and putting records out.

By and large musicians are pretty lazy; they don't do a whole lot. They're usually very busy doing nothing.

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.

Because my musical training has been limited I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song.

There have been many great musicians that Clifford Brown is one great example I mean he died very early 25.

These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.

Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine and great musicians are always great but that alone isn't enough.

As a producer I like to bring in unexpected voices unexpected musicians like Watt and Joey Spampinato of NRBQ.

My older brother and myself always played together in bands but we never knew we would be professional musicians.

Like many musicians I don't look back much... only concentrate on what music I'm doing and occasionally look ahead.

Cheech and I used to call ourselves musicians; we never called ourselves comedians. We were musicians that were funny.

I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.

I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.

The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head and they did.

I mean look how many musicians have come through and played beside me and I'm workin' and they're not.

Just look at the Old Testament. They didn't go out with the army first. They sent the musicians out.

For some musicians it becomes self-reflexive to think "I have to write some of my kind of songs now.

I believe musicians have a duty a responsibility to reach out to share your love or pain with others.

We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.

A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one and that is through your music to tell the truth.

...some musicians man you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that...

A lot of the way I sing is playing off other musicians. It's what I love to do the most.

Just because you put super great musicians together it doesn't mean you're going to have that chemistry as a band.

In fact many musicians are the happiest when the artist and audience re-interpret or re-imagine the content of the songs.

Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.

I just love to play and I get a chance to play with other musicians and I jump on it.

I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians.

Comedy is like music and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.

We all know the record biz don't pay. All musicians have day jobs - no matter how big they are.

For me musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.

Music is like having a conversation. All musicians inspire each other and they're all geared to play something that matters.

Composers and musicians have always starved and as this is a sentimental country we think the tradition should be continued.

Lady Gaga is one of the most amazingly talented musicians to bring her gifts to humanity in a long time.

I don't do album covers or CD covers for groups or musicians I don't like or have no interest in.

You know my sister sings my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.

It's my fault in many cases because I don't initiate the contact to talk with a lot of other musicians.

I love working with different musicians in the studio that's a real joy working with someone for the first time.

I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.

I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians and we got together regularly in our studios.

For most of human history musicians artists they've been part of the community â?? connectors and openers not untouchable stars.

The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.

Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.

Music that is created with the primary aim of impressing other musicians fails to connect with the vast majority of listeners.

I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians and there's always something to learn from them.

Everyone in my family is an artist in some capacity whether they're musicians painters or sculptors so it's in their blood.

I learn so much from writing with other musicians asking questions about their playing style and gear and hanging out too.

I love writing plays because they are living fluid things that are energised by the producer designers musicians actors and audience.

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

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

YouTube is an amazing platform for young musicians - although its harder to get noticed now that everyone is on it.

I have one message for young musicians around the world: Stay true to your heart believe in yourself and work hard.

Publishing the lyric books poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!

My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.

Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean to be entreated either to begin or end.

I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music.

If you look at the way people behave at shows icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship.

Osho knows my heart. And he knows the hearts of everyone of his musicians of each of his people in fact.

My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.

In The Doors we have both musicians and poets and both know of each other's art so we can effect a synthesis.

From chain gangs to folk songs to intelligent soul America has created musicians dedicated to truth justice and a better American Way.

I've lived all these years among those who create nothing and change nothing ' I said. 'Actors and musicians-they're saints to me.

The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.

As musicians and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb it's important that we use that voice wisely.

Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.

For too long musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

I think The Sunset Tree is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians which is so important.

Ive always enjoyed the enthusiasm of the best studio musicians and over the years have collected so many inspired contributions from them.

Free improvisation in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft is open to use by almost anyone--beginners children and non-musiciansâ?¦

The place that I found where European musicians and American musicians come together is that odd middle world which is called uncertainty.

When you have the opportunity to make music with great musicians take it. That's it. That's the only reason I need really.

A Cat Stevens record isn't just Cat Stevens' ideas. It's Cat Stevens and all the musicians who play with Cat Stevens right?

The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the Gypsies.

It's always great playing with other musicians. It's also a great situation where I'm the older guy I've influenced generations of guitar players.

I just love musicians. They're not all super-happy all the time but when they're playing they're happy and it's such a beautiful thing.

Youll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians people sort of go through strange rituals what they need to do to write a song.

We're all different. Some people are musicians some people are actors some people are agents and some people are accountants... We're all different.

I assume there must be some kind of genetic thrust. My two grandmothers were very different but both of them were frustrated musicians.

I don't talk about my personal life. But the relationships I've had have usually been with other musicians. It's just easier that way.

Most customers by the time the musicians reach the second set are to some extent inebriated. They don't care what you play anyway.

The Unity Band project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians but this is unlike anything else.

I think that's the graveyard of musicians playing cabaret. I think I'd rather be dead than work in cabaret. It's just so depressing.

Regardless of who originally made it popular any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in so they're afraid to lose those positions.

I prefer live musicians whenever possible. And I tailor the ensemble to what is appropriate for the film and the score I'm writing.

I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians a family I hoped I could belong to one day.

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

It's usually important to me to get my idea out first because a lot of times my ideas will seem weird to musicians.

I think musicians are perfect at knowing how to get the best out of other musicians. I can really relate to that communion.

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

I think that there's a lot of good will that exists between musicians and the people that support them and listen to them.

Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big deal.

Designers and musicians are primed to keep thinking forward. Once an album or collection launches you can only think about doing the next one.

Some people read books on musicians while I read music books. Not books on music but literally books full of sheet music. Fascinating reading.

Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.

Those little nimble musicians of the air that warble forth their curious ditties with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

As for style there is something about the way musicians dress-they seem to be able to create their own world within their fashion alone.

I only choose musicians who I think will emerge can emerge with their own character while still going along with the tune in question.

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy a beer.

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like.

I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself because there were no other musicians around.

Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers painters musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.

I don't hate being compared with female musicians. I don't mind that at all. I have no problem with seeing connections between women's work.

My parents are artists so I grew up with my mom having bonfires seven guitars and talented musicians and artists around like Jack Hirschman.

Even though it's become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity it's still effective and it still has to be done.

I like to swim a lot while Stjepan likes to take long walks with girls. He's the very romantic type. Yes musicians are romantic.

But God has a few of us to whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.

When I came to New York after high school in 1959 and started to meet musicians 'Hot House' was like a standard jam session tune.