Musician Quotes

• In fact, many musicians are the happiest when the artist and audience re-interpret or re-imagine the content of the songs.

  

  John Baizley Baroness
  • Song
  • Artist
  • Audience

• I'm a self-taught musician so how I read music is kind of very weak and I kind of read my own version of tablature, I write my own crappy reminders on what I'm playing.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Kind

• I'm a very typical yoga-practicing musician; I do it when I can. I'm not hardcore about it. A lot of my lyrics talk about celebrating life and working through pain. I think that's what yoga's about, getting rid of, moving energy and letting it flow through you.

  

  Brett Dennen
  • Energy
  • Pain
  • Celebrating

• Today all sounds belong to a continuous field of possibilities lying within the comprehensive dominion of music. Behold the new orchestra: the sonic universe! And the musicians: anyone and anything that sounds!

  

  R. Murray Schafer
  • Music
  • Today
  • Universe

• Music comes from the musician, not the instrument.

  

  Victor Wooten Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
  • Music
  • Musician
  • Instrument

• As a musician and a guitar player, I can noodle as well as anybody. But from my background as a session musician, I always try to play what is called for by the lyric and listening to the song. As a writer, that's what I do, too.

  

  Richie Sambora Bon Jovi
  • Trying
  • Song
  • Player

• I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie.

  

  Molly Ringwald
  • Father
  • Band
  • Jazz

• I've seen myself do stuff on stage that was pretty amazing. I think that would be true for any athlete. Any top athlete will see something that they are very proud of. All my injuries will attest to the fact that besides being a musician, it comes down to being an athlete.

  

  Paul Stanley Kiss
  • Amazing
  • Proud
  • Stage

• I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Poet
  • Rebel
  • Lunatic

• I used to go to Bourbon Street when I was a kid and there would be club after club after club of people who were around when the music started. I mean these are legendary, maybe not so well known, but legendary musicians.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Kids
  • Mean
  • Legendary

• I am a Slavic musician and it is deeply inside of me.

  

  Miroslav Vitous
  • Musician
  • Deeply

• At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The people who were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity accorded to what they did.

  

  Henry Flynt
  • Artist
  • Listening
  • Worst

• Back then, I was really into composing the entire solo, beginning to end. I wanted to have it at least 80 to 90 percent complete before going into the studio. I didn't improvise in the studio. I was young, and I didn't really have the development in my playing or the ability to show up with nothing and then put down 500 ideas. I can do that now because I'm so much more of a musician now.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Development
  • Studio
  • Complete

• We have been working with Habitat for Humanity and we have built eighty homes, 80% of which are being lived in by New Orleans' musicians. It is called the Musicians' Village and at the center is the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Home
  • Humanity
  • Habitat

• There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture — that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.

  

  William Kingdon Clifford
  • Poet
  • Discovery
  • Painter

• The only thing I wouldn't like to do is to play roles as a musician. I'm not sure that I would be comfortable doing that, and I'm not sure I'd be very good at it. I think I would be better served, and would be a better partner, if I was in something outside of myself.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Thing
  • Roles
  • Outside

• Time and persistence has shown me that I can succeed at sharing my art with others as a musician while running my own music business. And that kind of success is as good as I could have ever wished for.

  

  Bradley Joseph
  • Art
  • Running
  • Kind

• Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

  

  Richard Wagner
  • Musician
  • Sounds
  • Richard

• I used to want to be a singer and a musician for years, from 6 years old to today. I'm not really good, but in time I could be. I'm more of a singer than anything.

  

  Tommy Davidson
  • Today
  • Used
  • Singers

• I'm not more than a musician that enjoys what he does and a Colombian that dreams and fights for peace in his country.

  

  Juanes
  • Country
  • Peace
  • Musician

• The planet is asleep and it's the fault of musicians who are untrue to themselves.

  

  Sun Ra
  • Faults
  • Planets
  • Untrue

• I sometimes listen to music to get into some place that I need to get. I don't think it's because I have a musician as a father that I do this - most actors do.

  

  Brigitte Michael Sumner
  • Music
  • Father
  • Actors

• When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Dead
  • Musician
  • Remembered

• The longer you've been acting, normally, the better you are at it. As a musician, it doesn't work like that.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Work
  • Acting
  • Musician

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