Musician Quotes

• other artists - poets, painters, sculptors, musicians - produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of their divine mission; but we, - we strut and fret our hour upon the stage, and then the curtain falls and all is darkness and silence.

  

  Charlotte Saunders Cushman
  • Fall
  • Artist
  • Memories

• My family were all musicians. I really wasn't interested in school or anything.

  

  Tommy Bolin
  • Family
  • School
  • Musician

• Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Person
  • Musician
  • Notes

• It is so hard for musicians when they step into acting is they're not coming in as a blank slate, they're coming in with a real set idea of who they are, where they're coming from, what their politics are, what their tastes are.

  

  Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
  • Real
  • Acting
  • Blank

• Verbal communication about music is impossible except among musicians.

  

  Virgil Thomson
  • Communication
  • Impossible
  • Musician

• A lot of musicians don't learn the business. You just have to be well-rounded in both areas. You have to understand publishing. You have to understand how you make money, what's in demand, what helps you make the most out of your talent.

  

  Bradley Joseph
  • Helping
  • Talent
  • Publishing

• I think that if a real princess was lost in this modern world and she could be whatever she wanted, she would be a musician,' Blanche said slowly. 'A violinist, or a harpist. That would be the only place where she could find solace for her lost kingdom.

  

  Regina Doman
  • Modern
  • Princess
  • Kingdom

• If you want to be a better musician, hang out with a computer coder.

  

  will.i.am
  • Want
  • Computer
  • Coders

• I started out as a musician, and I ended up as a cartoon.

  

  Peter Frampton
  • Musician
  • Started
  • Cartoon

• Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Writing
  • Musician
  • Screenplays

• It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Impossible
  • Musician
  • Make

• Armstrong was the key creator of the mature working language of jazz. Three decades after his death and more than three-quarters of a century since his influence first began to spread, not a single musician who has mastered that language fails to make daily use, knowingly or unknowingly, of something that was invented by Louis Armstrong.

  

  Dan Morgenstern
  • Language
  • Influence
  • Jazz

• As a musician or a performer, you're meant to know what you're about, but it's ridiculous that someone 14 would have any idea of what they're about.

  

  Ben Lee
  • Idea
  • Musician
  • Performer

• I guess every musician looks forward to a point where they can just kind of make an album that truly is like a nice art album.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Forward
  • Guess
  • Art album

• I think that-that anyone, the painter, the musician, the writer works in a-a kind of an-an insane fury. He's demon-driven. He can get up feeling rotten, with a hangover, or with-with actual pain, and-and if he gets to work, the first thing he knows, he don't remember that pain, that hangover-he's too busy.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Pain
  • Painter
  • Don't Remember

• I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians.

  

  Michael Nyman
  • Acquire
  • Scratches
  • Inventors

• My dad was a musician, played on the road and played all of his life. And I grew up in a musical family. I heard it all. I mean, I got accustomed to listening to Roy Acuff and all the old guys. It was really cool for me growing up in a family like that.

  

  Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Life
  • Dad
  • Musician

• I was off the scene for a while during the ska period and when I returned and joined the Treasure Isle studio, I came there with a different mood. The musicians picked up on that and we kept on going in that direction. The music became slower, which gave the bass player the time to play more notes. In 1965 I named it rocksteady. The first rocksteady song was 'Girl I've Got A Date'. That one was still a bit up-tempo, leaning towards ska. It turned the tide and made Treasure Isle the number one studio.

  

  Alton Ellis
  • Music
  • Different
  • Song

• I think it's something to do with the structural quality of the songs. We weren't actually trying to make stuff that was cool, or of the moment, although a lot of it was. We were trying to make stuff that was good enough to stick around and lo and behold, it has.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• I've always thought that I'm not really a guitar player, but I just practised so much that I developed into a kind of a bit of a musician, but I've often doubted my musical ear. If someone sings me a melody, I have to improvise on that melody, because I can't retain the information they've given me. That's why I still practise today, I suppose, because I still feel inadequate.

  

  Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
  • Today
  • Kind
  • Player

• I was never interested in singing in the church or school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.

  

  Cassandra Wilson
  • Church
  • Singing
  • Never

• Every young person is going to be inspired to be a maker from now on. It's like how everyone used to want to be a musician, an actor, an athlete -- but a maker is what people are going to want to be.

  

  will.i.am
  • People
  • Inspired
  • Athlete

• You could always see that Alex was going to be in music, ... He never understands that question, 'What would you be if you weren't a musician?'

  

  Paul Thomson Franz Ferdinand
  • Music
  • Question
  • Musician

• It was a natural thing for me to go become a musician, and then to start writing music. I don't even really remember making a decision to go into music, it was just there for me, always. If I weren't making a living at it, I'd still be writing music.

  

  Geoff Zanelli
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Decision

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