Musicians Quotes

Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.

Billy Joel
- Good
- Family
- Understand
As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of music like a math equation.

Blake Judd

Music was literally in the air at the time, the Vienna of 1780. Everybody played music, classical music. There were in fact so many musicians that in apartment buildings people had to come up with a schedule - you practice at 5 p.m., I'll practice at 6 p.m. That way the music didn't collide with one another.

Eric Weiner
- Music
- Practice
- Air
I think the other thing that's important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time. In fact I often say that the biggest difference between classical music and everything else is that classical musicians sometimes shut up because they're told to, because the score tells them to. Whereas any music that's sort of based on folk or jazz, everybody plays all the time.

Brian Eno Roxy Music
- Jazz
- Musicians
- Decide
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
'Some Kind Of Monster' is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you're watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

Dave Grohl Nirvana
I'm inspired by artists and musicians. There are so many wonderful and talented people in the world. I love discovering new music, new writers, or new art.

Alicia Keys
- People
- World
- Music
The Doors were never that good as musicians.

Ray Manzarek The Doors
- Good
- Never
- The Doors