Musicians Quotes

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

Joss Stone
It's funny, there aren't too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There's a few - the really brilliant ones.

Dave Grohl Nirvana

We're musicians; we're not politicians or anything.

Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Musicians
- Politicians
I don't get so much inspiration from other musicians. Especially alive musicians. Late musicians are good - Bach, Beethoven - yes, good.

Ryuichi Sakamoto
Musically, though, you're a character and you're singing a song. If you're not your own character, you're the character in the song, most of the time. Even blues musicians, a lot of them who were the most realistic, at times, they were singing a song and portraying a character in the song. There's something to be said for getting involved in the emotion of a song, too, with the characters.

Jack White The White Stripes
I think that it's fear. 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. If you're 22 years old and you can't believe you're even in the position to have a career making music, the first thing you're going to think is: Maintain. Don't lose it. And that's precisely what causes you to lose everything.

Steven Soderbergh
We’re Christian by faith, but at the end of the day, we’re just musicians.

The Afters
I know when I feel good when I play. There's a closeness with musicians you only get from playing live, even in the studio it's still playing live. For me, it's what expands my soul.

Ringo Starr The Beatles
- Live
- Soul
- Studio