Musicians Quotes

We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.
Oscar Peterson

Night, Same, Top

I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians.
Michael Nyman

Music, Great, Steal

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.
Stan Getz

Play, Read, Listen

It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new artist, or this new guitar player?' It keeps you reaching.
Gary Burton

Saying, Guitar, Artist

Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers. We want to join in on whatever we hear. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.
Gary Burton

Freedom, Someone, Whatever

I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.
Gary Burton

Around, Early, Played

I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.
Gary Burton

Hate, Together, Played

You can have all sorts of relationships, but there's something with musicians working together where you can have relationship that can just continue to grow in a beautiful way.
Beth Orton

Beautiful, Together, Working

Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general.
Lionel Hampton

Important, Black, Working

I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky, electronic sounds, while the musicians in the band were more rock oriented. This I suppose created the sound we know as Frankie Goes To Hollywood.
Holly Johnson

Time, Rock, Wanted

We have such a high drop-out rate from musicians, said the head of the college. He was right - I dropped out before I even dropped in. Months later they were still asking what had happened to me, not realising that I was on a UK tour.
Holly Johnson

Before, Said, College

As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely.
Roberta Flack

Important, Voice, Hear

People are afraid to ask musicians to be involved in projects because they anticipate being turned down. Young artists hesitate before contacting me. People in my position don't get approached often enough.
David Sylvian

Down, Enough, Before

By and large musicians are pretty lazy; they don't do a whole lot. They're usually very busy doing nothing.
Buzz Osborne

Busy, Nothing, Lazy

Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.
Benny Goodman

Today, Win, Before

At the art college in Edinburgh someone arranged for some London groups to come up and play. I was in a supporting band, with Bernie Green I think. Derek Bailey was one of the visiting musicians. He seemed to like my playing and asked me to come down to London.
Jamie Muir

Art, Someone, Down

It's great to have all this stuff at home. But when you want to make it for real, there's still nothing like making music with a bunch of other great musicians in the same room. That's one thing that'll never change.
Ronnie Milsap

Change, Music, Great

Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.
Cassandra Wilson

Everything, Song, Interested

I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.
Earl Scruggs

Good, Travel, Past

You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.
David James Elliott

School, High, Point

Some musicians play blues, others classical jazz or bluegrass. I like to play political roles because I can merge my political interests with my creative interests.
Jeffrey Wright

Political, Play, Others

The thing with me. I can't stick musicians. I've thought about this. I can't stand them, and being stuck in a studio with them I think that's my strength I can hear what they can't.
Mark E. Smith

Strength, Thought, Stand

I believe as musicians and artists we have an obligation to our souls. What that is? Only each one of us knows. I can speak for myself and say my obligation is to be happy. When I'm happy, I make great music. When I'm unhappy and my heart is broken, I may make brokenhearted music, but it still sounds good.
Narada Michael Walden

Music, Good, Great

Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.
Keith Jarrett

Chance, Stop, Minute

We were playing, not for the drunks, but for the musicians, because it was more intellectually challenging. We needed somewhere to put our energy to show that we were growing, and as we started to achieve this, people came to hear us musically.
Ronnie Hawkins

Put, Energy, Show

I grew up in a house that was always happy, and my family was always music, music. I started playing percussion very young, because I had some uncles who were musicians and all my aunts were singers.
Ronaldinho

Music, Family, Happy

The musicians recommend that I sing a sing the way it is written the first time and then start to look for other notes that aren't in the melody.
Margaret Whiting

Time, Start, Written

All of the musicians when I was young used to always say you had to tell a story when you're a musician.
Dave Holland

Young, Tell, Used

Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn't consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper.
Mary Lou Williams

Love, Music, End

I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.
Gary Kemp

Thought, Wanted, Pop

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