Musician Quotes

• To do an extreme metal record is something that is well within my capacity as a musician to write stuff out of the box, write stuff that's probably more extreme than the band I'm in at the present time, and it's something that needs to come out of me one way or another.

  

  Phil Anselmo Pantera
  • Way
  • Write
  • Record

• I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter. In some way, in some form, my God was always there, but now I have learned to talk to him.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Art
  • Water
  • Musician

• 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 find myself, the more I grow up the more I hang around creatives, musicians. I find them more inspiring to be around. I'd probably say that. The more creative you are - I get along with them better. There is more of an understanding.

  

  Tom Odell
  • Understanding
  • Creative
  • Musician

• I've grown to love California: It's the dream of every English musician to come here and work in the sunshine. To walk up Sunset Boulevard, knowing you're going to make music - that's it.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Up
  • Work
  • Music

• I believe in improvisation. All musicians improvise. Even Bach, Mozart and Beethoven improvised. Improvisation and freedom are synonymous. The goal of every musician is to be free, but freedom is rare.

  

  Ahmad Jamal
  • Freedom
  • Goal
  • Improvisation

• Being a musician makes you very - musicians in general tend to be quite sensitive, I think, to the environment around them, which helps when you are trying to interact with others on screen, to be aware, to be sensitive, and to try to understand what's going on in the scene.

  

  Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Helping

• I'm not a martyr, just a musician who dies for your sins. Oh, that's what a martyr is? Very well then, I am a martyr, if you insist.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Sin
  • Wells
  • Martyr

• You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.

  

  Eve Arnold
  • Musician
  • Photographer

• Mose Allison is a beautiful musician.

  

  Willie Dixon
  • Beautiful
  • Moses
  • Allison

• 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

• Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician

  

  Wynton Marsalis
  • Musician
  • Listeners

• Find what you're best at and exaggerate it.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • Musician

• 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

• When a street musician lowered his violin to inquire, 'Hey lovely, what you got there?' she said, 'Musicians who ask questions,' and kept on dragging.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • She
  • Lovely
  • Hey

• Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Attitude
  • Bags
  • Redneck

• 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

• 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

• 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

• There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music.

  

  Miroslav Vitous
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• I wish I could say differently, but I really don't think so. There are too many musicians already for probably anyone to be noticed without some sort of commercial support. Even the most talented ones drown in a sea of mediocrity, and only the politically correct ones will ever be promoted (willingly...) by the press anyhow.

  

  Varg Vikernes Burzum
  • Thinking
  • Support
  • Wish

• When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy.

  

  James Brown
  • People
  • Trying
  • Joy

• 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

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

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Die
  • Play
  • Musician

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