Musician Quotes

• If all you have is music, then you don't have music

  

  Wayne Shorter
  • Music
  • Musician
  • Ifs

• I'm a spiritual musician, I think there has been enough political musicians and I think everything that can be said has been said about political, social things, you know, and there's still some more to be said but not much.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Thinking
  • Political
  • Spiritual

• When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad.

  

  Trevor Charles Horn Art of Noise
  • People
  • Dad
  • Horny

• I'm not a musician, I just play bass.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Play
  • Musician
  • Bass

• Dude, if you want to be a great musician, you have to try heroin. You'll see. It's like being back in the womb.

  

  Dave Mustaine Metallica
  • Musician
  • Heroin
  • Womb

• At a certain age I just stopped arguing. I realized that there was no way my father could see, because for him to approve of what I was doing, he would have to have some belief in me as a musician.

  

  George Michael
  • Musician
  • Arguing
  • My Father

• When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Music
  • Education
  • Option

• Music and visual performance have to influence each other. Designers and musicians have to be the nexus of all things pop culture, so I think about designers when I'm making music.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Culture

• In the end, worship can never be a performance, something you're pretending or putting on. It's got to be an overflow of your heart...Worship is about getting personal with God, drawing close to God.

  

  Matt Redman
  • God
  • Christian
  • Drawing

• When I think of my own struggles as a musician, I'm most proud of the chances I took. My style not only allowed for the possibility of failure, it practically ensured it. But this approach gave me confidence.

  

  Derrick Bostrom Meat Puppets
  • Style
  • Chances
  • Struggles

• It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Time
  • Good
  • Live

• Since my father is a musician as well, he taught me growing up that if you can play jazz, you can learn all instruments and write on them. He wanted me to be a songwriter that can do anything in any genre. I'm all about doing every genre.

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • Up
  • Father
  • Growing

• I listen to other guitar players, yeah. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the future and it is going some places. There are some musicians who are really putting out a good vibe with new theories. I try and keep up.

  

  George Benson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Music
  • Dad
  • Bless

• The ability for a woman to orally satisfy somebody in a rock band, that's important to a rock 'n' roll musician.

  

  Chad Kroeger Nickelback
  • Ability
  • Musician
  • Rock Band

• The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous gradation of tones, but the musician learns the discrete intervals at which to stop the string in order to play the conventional notes. We sound our phonemes like poor violinists, approximating each time to a fancied norm, and we receive our neighbor's renderings indulgently, mentally rectifying the more glaring inaccuracies.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Music
  • Language
  • Poor

• 'Master Blaster,' by Stevie Wonder, is up-tempo and fun, like Stevie himself. Stevie's always making jokes; he really knows how to put people at ease. He's one of my inspirations, as a musician and a person.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Fun
  • Wonder
  • Inspiration

• I feel like I'm struggling now, and nearly every musician I know feels that way - even the most successful ones. I realize that I'm very lucky, but I still feel like I could be doing so much better.

  

  Eleanor Friedberger
  • Successful
  • Lucky
  • Struggling

• I would love to interview Dave Grohl. I just think he's an amazing musician, and I grew up listening to Nirvana, so I have so many questions about that.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Think
  • Amazing
  • Musician

• I think filmmakers all secretly wanna be musicians and all musicians secretly wanna be filmmakers.

  

  Edwin Farnham Butler III Arcade Fire
  • Thinking
  • Musician
  • Filmmaker

• I just consider myself lucky that I've been a musician this long and not had to find another job.

  

  Paul Young Mike and the Mechanics
  • Job
  • Musician
  • Consider

• It is only the most elite of elite musicians whose unconventional approach becomes convention.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • Approach
  • Conventions
  • Elites

• Not everyone deserves to be a musician, you get lucky enough to be one.

  

  Josh Homme Queens of the Stone Age
  • Lucky
  • Musician
  • Deserves

• Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.

  

  Norman Granz
  • Leader
  • Sound
  • Wells

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