Musicians Quotes

• People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Musicians
  • Flowers

• I think maybe people see bands and musicians as some sort of superhero unrealistic sport that happens in another dimension where it's not real people and not real emotions. So, I grew up listening to Beatles records on my floor. That's how I learned how to play guitar. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be a musician.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Guitar
  • Bands
  • Beatles Records

• Prince, I think, trained amazing musicians to bring more to any musical table they come to.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Prince
  • Musicians
  • Trained

• I have to be honest with you, I feel sorry for new musicians, I admire them no end, as they have the same desire that I had as a kid growing up, wanting to be a musician. The big problem now is that the major labels aren’t signing any new bands, there was a time when independent labels were doing it, but a lot of them don’t exist anymore.

  

  Frankie Banali
  • Growing Up
  • Musicians
  • Labels

• Musicians should never forget that we're blessed. We have a special gift that people can enjoy through us. We've had the good fortune to receive this and pass it along to others.

  

  Ed Thigpen
  • Blessed
  • Forget
  • Gift

• I think some musicians can almost forget that the stage is something to do something on, even if that thing is standing still.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Forget
  • Stage
  • Musicians

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

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Musicians
  • Prophets
  • Ancient times

• 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.

  

  Paul Stanley Kiss
  • Freedom
  • Write
  • Musicians

• 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.

  

  Ravi Shankar
  • Success
  • Coming
  • Having

• I think most politicians think most musicians are drug addicts or ‘not an exemplary part of society, so why should they worry about putting in legislation to help that industry when they can help another industry? So, I don’t think there’s a way out, the worst thing that ever happened was the invention of the CD, because a CD is an exact copy of a master recording!

  

  Frankie Banali
  • Society
  • Politicians
  • Legislation

• Maybe other musicians are interested in different things, maybe they have greater monetary concerns. I hear people who have not changed, who haven't elevated anything, who are the same as they were back in the '50s and '60s.

  

  Alice Coltrane
  • Changed
  • Interested
  • Musicians

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

  

  Adria Petty
  • Actors
  • Protect
  • Musicians

• Musicians always want to sacrifice our creativity to get involved in environmental issues or political activism of some sort - to reduce it to something more populist in terms of sing-alongs or guitar songs with a message.

  

  Eyvind Kang
  • Creativity
  • Songs
  • Guitar

• I want to change and try new ideas - allowing your sonic identity to evolve in your music and not being afraid of that. You see musicians hit upon something that works, and then go, "Let's keep doing that for 10 years." And that idea kind of terrifies me a little bit. It becomes like a day job then.

  

  Alex Kapranos Franz Ferdinand
  • Job
  • Change
  • Musicians

• Musicians wake up and create a more loving community by creating heavier music.

  

  Cass McCombs
  • Community
  • Create
  • Loving

• For us, an album is the highest art form - an album or a really incredible film. We're musicians, not filmmakers, so this is what we can do.

  

  Isom Innis
  • Film
  • Musicians
  • Album

• 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.

  

  George Michael
  • Things
  • Charity
  • Musicians

• My brother had a house in Paris. To it came many Western classical musicians. These musicians all made the same point: 'Indian music,' they said, 'is beautiful when we hear it with the dancers. On its own, it is repetitious and monotonous.'

  

  Ravi Shankar
  • Beautiful
  • Indian
  • Classical

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

  

  Billy Joel
  • Voice
  • Hearts
  • Musicians

• We musicians often get inspiration from films and books or photographs, not only by music.

  

  Ryuichi Sakamoto
  • Music
  • Inspiration
  • Books

• I think musicians and actors have all these problems, because of the popularity and the opportunity.

  

  Ravi Shankar
  • Opportunity
  • Because
  • Popularity

• "Jazz" to begin with, is a really bad word... all the true musicians that really play jazz, jazz is the worst word for it. Jazz is a process. Jazz is a creative process. It's not so much a genre, but a way of expression.

  

  Eldar Djangirov
  • Expression
  • Jazz
  • Musicians

• I can't stress too much how much Ry Cooder was an influence on me. Having one of the most respected musicians around like my singing really gave me the confidence to do it.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • Confidence
  • Influence
  • Ry Cooder

• Naturally we always want to get ourselves forward as musicians and also as a band and of course we want to sell more all the time. We won’t deny it, of course we do.

  

  Jukka Nevalainen Nightwish
  • Band
  • Musicians
  • Forward

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