Musician Quotes

• Success is nice, but it shouldn't be the only reason why you're a musician.

  

  Chester Bennington Linkin Park
  • Success
  • Reason
  • Musician

• I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Musician
  • Jazz
  • Stepfather

• I think every musician is different, every artist is different, and in a perfect world people would be able to pursue their own path and have the inspiration and the drive to, and the energy and dedication to take their path to its fruition. I don't really believe in formulas.

  

  Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
  • Energy
  • Artist
  • Inspiration

• Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way.

  

  Jerry Lee Lewis
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Kind

• 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

• Learning how to record has been super empowering for me, because I spent so many years going into the studio and watching other people do it. I guess a lot of musicians have gone through this because now recording is really available for everybody.

  

  Julia Kent Antony and the Johnsons
  • People
  • Empowering
  • Gone

• Musicians are so well covered in the press, it would be great to see more outspoken practitioners of green life.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Life
  • Great
  • Green

• I'm not a musician - I'm a ham.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Musician
  • Ham

• I only say this because a lot of people seem to think that if you're a musician you want to be a celebrity. But most musicians in the world aren't celebrities, and pretty much everything about the concept of 'celebrity' is a complete load of bollocks anyhow.

  

  Brooke Fraser Hillsong Worship
  • People
  • Celebrity
  • Musician

• What is scurrilously called ragtime is an invention that is here to stay. That is now conceded by all classes of musicians... All publication s masquerading under the name of ragtime are not the genuine article... That real ragtime of the higher class is rather difficult to play is a painful truth which most pianists have discovered. Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music... Joplin ragtime is destroyed by careless or imperfect rendering, and very often players lost the effect entirely by playing too fast.

  

  Scott Joplin
  • Real
  • Player
  • Difficult

• When you commit to being a musician, I don't think you're really sure or care about when you're going to pay the bills. I don't think you care about that as much as you care about playing music.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Musician
  • Bills
  • Playing Music

• I have learned that collaboration are everything to me. Music is a social thing. If there are no ears to hear it, it has no value. I have really loved getting input from other great musicians- like recording strings with my family or making weird synth sounds with tore nissen.

  Nanna Øland Fabricius
  • Great
  • Music
  • Family

• 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

• I didn't have that intense ambition to be a musician or an actress. I just enjoyed it. And by enjoying it, because I loved it, it enabled me to get better at what I was doing, because there was a love behind it.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Ambition
  • Actress
  • Intense

• I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.

  

  Abdullah Ibrahim
  • Man
  • Jazz
  • Medicine

• I know I'm always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That's for sure. It's about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Always

• Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Die
  • Play
  • Musician

• The creative process for a musician is very different than for a filmmaker. I have an idea and I can pretty much execute it. As old as I am now and as long as I've been doing it, I can pretty much get it done in a week. While a filmmaker has a great idea that should be out tomorrow, but he has to go through this process of getting financing, then selling it, then casting. I've always been in awe of filmmakers and their patience in realizing their vision because I could never do that.

  

  Mike Patton Faith No More
  • Patience
  • Filmmaker
  • Great Idea

• I've always been a tapper, as in, on tables, school desks, my legs and chest. I've eventually been able to figure out how to move that to the guitar.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • American
  • Move
  • Legs

• The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Artist
  • Lord

• I think people who basically do one thing like Eric Clapton is great. But I've always enjoyed playing different kinds of music and playing with different kinds of musicians because I find that really interesting, like learning and working with Kip Hanrahan. There's a great conga player called Milton Cardona and he taught me a lot of the nuances, he's a Santeria Priest and so he knows his onions as it were.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• Mose Allison is a beautiful musician.

  

  Willie Dixon
  • Beautiful
  • Moses
  • Allison

• A, C, and G are the only chords any honest musician needs.

  

  Kim Deal The Breeders
  • Needs
  • Musician
  • Chords

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