Musicians Quotes

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
I consider music to be a service and I am trying to serve the music, the musicians and the audience the best I can at every moment.

Jeff Coffin Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
- Music
- Service
- Audience

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

Billy Joel
- Good
- Family
- Understand
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
- Air
- Practice
Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking.

Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club
- Musicians
When you hear the melodic structures of what classical musicians put together and you compare it to that of a rock & roll record, there's a hell of a long way rock & roll has to go.

Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
I'm going to get drunk and insult as many musicians from the 80's as is humanly possible.

Noel Gallagher Oasis
- Drunk
- Musicians
- Insult
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