Musicians Quotes

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough.
Eminem

Funny, Rock, Tough

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.
Frank Zappa

Around, Often, Guy

Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.
Kinky Friedman

Work, Done, Honest

The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.
Andy Rooney

Good, Bad, Enough

I want to talk to the bullied kids of the world. Tell them to hang on, it will get better. Know that an 'Iron Chef,' actors, musicians, artists and all successful people have probably been bullied in their life. And the best part of your life is yet to come. Whatever it takes to live, do it!
Cat Cora

Life, Best, Successful

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
Duke Ellington

Wise, Play, Master

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.
Tony Wilson

Enjoy, Last, Themselves

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.
Louis Armstrong

Music, Stop, Retire

If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.
Carlos Santana

History, Moving, Challenge

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.
Travis Barker

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
Billy Joel

Life, Around, Artist

These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.
Marilyn Manson

Trying, Artists, Taking

Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
Billy Joel

Music, Time, Give

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
Billy Joel

Experience, Different, High

I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.
David Bowie

Life, Through, Players

To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.
David Bowie

Work, Best, Done

People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them.
John Mayer

Time, Mind, Heart

A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.
Leopold Stokowski

Music, Silence, Pictures

Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
Billy Joel

Family, Good, Understand

We all feel love, and that might sound kind of corny, but I really feel that's what joins musicians together around the world.
Enrique Iglesias

Love, Together, Around

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.
Brian Eno

Music, Live, Emotional

I owe everything to the musicians I work with.
Robert Plant

Work, Everything, Owe

Lately, I'm spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream - almost dissolving into another world, musically.
Robert Plant

Time, Leaving, Working

The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.
Roy Ayers

Beauty, Music, True

I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.
James Taylor

Love, Pain, Others

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.
Brian Eno

Work, Best, Understand

I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.
David Byrne

Music, Home, Fun

All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds.
Marc Bolan

Rock, Sounds, Deaf

Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.
Billy Corgan

Music, Attitude, Fight

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.
Havelock Ellis

Happiness, Fight, Feeling

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