Musicians Quotes

It's a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions like Napster are a lot more fun than cash, which by the way we don't have at major labels anyway, so we might as well get with it and get in the game.

Courtney Love
- Time
- Believe
- Fun
I've always moved into a band where the musicians are a lot more capable than me. It's always been a conscious effort and it makes you raise your game.

John Verity Argent
- Game
- Capable
- Raise

I've been really lucky as far as the caliber of musicians I've been able to work with each time.

Brian Warren
- Work
- Musicians
I was co-editor of the magazine called The Jazz Review, which was a pioneering magazine because it was the only magazine, then or now, in which all the articles were written by musicians, by jazz men. They had been laboring for years under the stereotype that they weren't very articulate except when they picked up their horn.

Nat Hentoff
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
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
Many of the jazz musicians whom are no longer here. You don't realize that it's history when it is happening and then time passes and you look at a picture and you say "Wow, there is history attached to that."

Carol Friedman
- History
- Picture
- Jazz
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