Musicians Quotes

When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they com...

Most of the musicians that I know almost to the man everybody uses Apple computers. They've thought ...

The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I...

I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red ...

I think that dating other musicians can be complicated at times. Especially when they think highly o...

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in...

Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still... we're part of a world we deeply l...

I'm turned on by guys who are cultured. That'll keep me intrigued. They don't have to have a single ...

I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the inven...

I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musici...

Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fash...

Everything is music for the born musician.

Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you...

But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do wi...

Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Ever...

Collaborative workshops and writers' peer groups hadn't been invented when I was young. They're a wo...

I think all musicians have at one time or another experienced one physical problem or another. I hav...

Now, as I understand it, the bards were feared. They were respected, but more than that they were fe...

I've lived all these years among those who create nothing and change nothing,' I said. 'Actors and m...

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

I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent prop...

There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautifu...

We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, cla...

I do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puff D...

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

He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what the...

It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first ...

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers...

But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced...

When I hear music that parents hate, or older musicians hate, I know that's the new music. When I he...

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the dark...

Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're...

Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature...

Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicia...

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more a...

Where's your will to be weird?

You are your own best teacher. ~Jimmy Buffett

Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a liv...

The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians...

Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of...

When a work of painting, music or other form attains two-way communication, it is truly art. One occ...

As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment...

Musicians like James Blake were a big influence on me. How he uses his vocals is amazing. And then Y...

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