Musician Quotes

• What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?

  

  Nellie Melba
  • Art
  • Poet
  • Silver

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

  

  Sun Ra
  • Faults
  • Planets
  • Untrue

• My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.

  

  Babatunde Adebimpe
  • Father
  • Musician
  • Sides

• I don't view myself as a musician anymore - I view myself as a human being that functions as a musician when I'm functioning as a musician, but that's not 24 hours a day. That's really opened me up to even more perspectives because now I look at music, not from the standpoint of being a musician, but from the standpoint of being a human being.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Perspective
  • Musician
  • Hours

• A devastating culmination of the elegant and the funky, a really sensational musician with enormous depth.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Funky
  • Sensational
  • Culmination

• You know what you can gain when you sit down with the Moroccans. As a person and as a musician. That's how you grow.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Person
  • Sit Down
  • Moroccans

• You know, any sane magician would never reveal his method of deception. And I don't think that a sensible musician would either.

  

  Van Dyke Parks
  • Thinking
  • Musician
  • Deception

• I think jazz is a phenomenal creative force, because it's one man, one vote as you're playing, but it's a collective thing, what you're doing. You're listening to all the musicians around you and you're working within that structure.

  

  Herb Alpert
  • Listening
  • Creative
  • Vote

• 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

• One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Life
  • Great
  • Music

• Well a good writer writes, a good musician listens to a lot more than he actually composes, and if you're going to do lyrics - well, there's a Freudian slip. That's not even a slip, that's a Freudian move: I said going to do lyrics. If you really want it to ring true, you'll live it first. Go really get your heart broken!

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • Writer
  • Listens
  • Composes

• 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'm a much better musician than astronomer. I think the world got the right choice.

  

  Brian May Queen
  • Musician
  • Astronomer
  • Right Choice

• I've never been a jam-band sort of musician.

  

  Tom DeLonge Blink-182
  • Band
  • Musician
  • Jam-Band

• I’m not saying that maybe there isn’t a kid out there whose behavior hasn’t been influenced by me in some way. I’m sure there is. But I can only speak for myself, and if you’d asked if my behavior had ever been affected by people I’d admired from afar, like musicians or footballers, that’d be a yes, totally.

  

  Peter Daniell Doherty Babyshambles
  • People
  • Kids
  • Speak

• I thought - being a musician doesn't help your medical credibility really. Although I started to rethink that when I learned that Albert Einstein was quite a violinist and in fact would perform a lot with symphonies. So if it's good enough for Albert, it's good enough for me.

  

  Neal Barnard
  • Good
  • Help
  • Symphonies

• Music comes from the musician, not the instrument.

  

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

• If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer?

  

  Shawn Fanning
  • Musician
  • Prepared
  • Programmers

• See, if you put a musician in a place where he has to do something different from what he does all the time, then he can do that - but he's got to think differently in order to do it. He's got to play above what he knows - far above it. I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.

  

  Miles Davis
  • Different
  • Happen
  • Anything

• When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Way
  • Musician
  • Profit

• 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

• To be a drummer you also have to be a musician.

  

  Ian Paice
  • Have
  • Drummer
  • Also

• 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

• Musicians are like politicians. They're the last people who should be making music, just like politicians are the last people who should be running things.

  

  Nigel Timothy Godrich Atoms for Peace
  • People
  • Running
  • Politician

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