Musicians Quotes

• Worship the music, not the musicians.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Music
  • Worship
  • Musicians

• I have volunteered for Musicians on Call for the past 12 years because of the incredible one-on-one experiences in hospital rooms when no one other than the patient and I would remember the love that was exchanged.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Love
  • Remember
  • Past

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

  

  Aphex Twin
  • Artists
  • Musicians
  • Considered

• I actually love Twitter and Instagram. I do think it's so strange to think that 20 years ago, people would never have known personal stuff about musicians and actors, but I like it. As long as I don't obsessively overshare, it's OK. And when I do overshare, it's just, like, me saying, 'I've got $7 in my bank account!'

  

  Lorde
  • People
  • Long
  • Twitter

• All musicians and artists - we all got quirks that have to be put up with at certain times.

  

  Dickey Betts
  • Certain
  • Artists
  • Times

• I've never understood musicians who don't enjoy doing promotional interviews. I just can't believe it. I always think, 'Your life must have been so brilliant before you were in a band.'

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Band

• You don't really learn how to write songs; you learn to develop as a writer, and you get to meet lots of musicians and figure out what kind of sound you want. You have the time to just develop and try different styles, and that's what I did.

  

  Alice Merton
  • Writer
  • Musicians
  • Develop

• Good musicians are often difficult to hang out with; that's the hardest part, finding people you get on with.

  

  Phil Collen Def Leppard
  • People
  • Difficult
  • Musicians

• Music had been going on a long time before that. You have to remember that before rock n' roll there were a bunch of jazz musicians all doing heroin. That sh*t has been around a long time.

  

  Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead
  • Music
  • Remember
  • Rock N Roll

• It's a weird thing where, especially in jazz, you have to totally mention cutting sessions and people one-upping each other and people being super, super tough on each other. And out of it emerge these genius musicians.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Weird
  • Cutting

• Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Time
  • Music
  • Why

• When you sing, play instruments, write&produce and the media portrays you as "singer" but your male colleagues who do the same "musicians".

  

  Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir Of Monsters and Men
  • Musicians
  • Singer
  • Portrays

• A good producer. His job is not only to help a band make a great record, but also to bring out the best in his musicians by creating an encouraging, comfortable atmosphere in the studio, so that everyone feels good about themselves.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Band
  • Producer
  • Great Record

• Great stories, well written and heartfelt. Prisoner of SouthernRock is an engaging and entertaining celebration of southern music, musicians and characters.

  

  Charles Alfred Leavell The Allman Brothers Band
  • Stories
  • Celebration
  • Prisoner

• There are a few musicians that I know who seem on the outside like very asocial or somewhat unemotional people, people who aren't capable of emotions, and people think they're very cold inside.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Cold
  • Emotions

• If I wasn't a model, I would never have been around interesting musicians, even had the financial capabilities to say, 'I don't have to work right now. I can sit and make my record.'

  

  Karen Elson
  • Work
  • Interesting
  • Model

• 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.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Kids
  • Singing
  • Fate

• The new king [Alexander the Great] should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him.

  

  Plutarch
  • Musicians
  • Poets
  • Perform

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

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Different
  • Change
  • Style

• You discover over time that music can be overwhelming. Unless the musicians involved understand this they can lose audiences. Spontaneity and improvisation are salient features but I also strive to make music that is peaceful. I want to make music that aids world peace in the same way that the people who shaped my development did.

  

  Bennie Maupin
  • Development
  • Discover
  • Features

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

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • Teacher
  • Musicians
  • Reach

• I wouldn't like to be in movies. Movie people are strange. They live a different life than musicians do.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • People
  • Movies
  • Different Life

• We're all continuing to grow up and get better as musicians, and the chemistry as a band continues to deepen.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Up
  • Band
  • Better

• I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them "Our exercise today is not to use 'undo' at all. So, there's no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take. There's no sort of drop in, change that little bit". The session broke down in, I'd say, 40 minutes. It was impossible for people to work in that restriction any longer.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Change
  • Musicians
  • Restriction

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