Musicians Quotes

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

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Death
  • Musicians

• The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • People
  • Life
  • World

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

  

  Zach Braff
  • Music
  • Money
  • Desire

• The Americans expect great things of me ... If the small Czech nation can have such musicians, they say, why could not they, too, when their country and people is so immense.

  

  Antonin Dvorak
  • People
  • Great
  • Country

• It was the 'Gaucho' album that finished us off. We had pursued an idea beyond the point where it was practical. That album took about two years, and we were working on it all of that time - all these endless tracking sessions involving different musicians. It took forever, and it was a very painful process.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Different
  • Forever

• I have a theory - if the music is good and you have good musicians, the name doesn't matter that much. There are a lot of examples of that. The name is just a calling card.

  

  Joey Tempest Europe
  • Music
  • Theory
  • Examples

• I don't think I can speak of the achievements of Indian cinema because it's so large next to me. It's not stopping. It's ever-growing. We are going towards the right direction. We are evolving as a filmmaking industry as actors, directors, producers, singers, musicians. Everybody just pushing the boundaries.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Growing
  • Speak
  • Filmmaking

• I have a hard time with musicians who act like pricks because it just makes me mad. I just sit there and I go, 'You know what, dude, no matter whether you're in a band just surviving or you're in a bus playing stadiums, one way or another, you're still among the rare breed of people that are actually getting paid to do it.'

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Time
  • Band

• Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Clothes
  • Musicians
  • Sixties

• You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Music
  • Real
  • Love

• I don't think that there's much that sets me apart from other musicians, but I think there are definitely things that set me apart from other kinds of artists. I feel that musicians do it their own way, write their own songs and put on a great live shows.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Great
  • Live
  • Musicians

• I would love to do a serious period drama. Oh, absolutely. I mean, you'll find most comedians want to do more serious stuff, most musicians want to be comedians, and most serious actors want to be musicians.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Serious
  • Drama
  • Period

• With pop music and pop musicians, you know everything about everyone all the time, particularly their physical appearance. With female musicians, that's made a big thing of, and I think people, certainly with me, have appreciated a bit of mystery.

  

  Lorde
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

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

  

  Gary Burton
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Farm

• I think the most important thing about what musicians do is the music. You can be as big an arsehole as you want but if you're not making good music, you won't get away with it.

  

  Peter Hook New Order
  • Musicians
  • Get Away
  • Good Music

• I have a lot of successful musician pals, and as I get older, I find that I'm lucky to be a writer. I have great anonymity compared to musicians who sell the same number of records as I do books.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Great
  • Same
  • Musicians

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

  

  Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club
  • Musicians
  • Ways
  • Rely

• 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.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Music
  • Different
  • Same

• Musicians like James Blake were a big influence on me. How he uses his vocals is amazing. And then Yeasayer and Animal Collective, who aren't pop bands exactly, but they do something that is so catchy and undeniable and so much fun.

  

  Lorde
  • Fun
  • Amazing
  • Animal

• There are musicians who go through their lives sort of shedding their skins. For me, I've always felt backward-compatible to Version 1.0.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Always
  • Lives
  • Version

• We traveled with a lot of these bands and got to know them personally. It's a real good comradery between musicians…traveling together, you can relate to each other.

  

  Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians
  • Musicians
  • Bands
  • Traveled

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

  

  Billy Joel
  • Position
  • Musicians
  • Legitimate

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

  

  Gary Burton
  • Together
  • Hate
  • Musicians

• American musicians are very giving - they have the highest standard in the world - but they are also very demanding in their conditions.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • World
  • American
  • Giving

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