Musician Quotes - Page 12

[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.

The majority of the people I work with are more than musicians and singers, they are personal friends and friends help each other.

I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.

The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen by us, if not as a superior form of knowledge, at least as the most fundamental and the only one really common to us all; scientific thought is merely the sharp point more penetrating because it has been whetted on the stone of fact, but at the cost of some loss of substance and its effectiveness is to be explained by its power to pierce sufficiently deeply for the main body of the tool to follow the head.

Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

I don't understand how a musician can play 90 minutes on stage and then not dedicate a little bit of time to hang out at their merch table. It's not like digging a ditch or something; you're standing there thanking people for coming out to see you.

Musicians own music because music owns them.

It's hard to find five musicians who know what the other is going to do before they do it. And that's what we had in GN'R.

I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.

Singers, musicians, and songwriters don't want to use the word "acting" because we want it to be more real than that - we want it to come from us: naturally, truly, really.

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

Musicians have the power to influence people and along with movie makers, they can reach and influence more people than any group of people, more than scientists and certainly more than politicians.

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

It just seems like musicians want to sell a few records and put out a perfume line, and I think it's so sad that there are so many musicians who don't want to change the world.

There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high level with extremely valuable material, motifs, and melodies.

Not all musicians believe in god but they all believe in Bach

I'm not in it for my health. I'm a musician and I wanna live the way I do.

I'm obsessively opposed to the typical.

I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.

Even though it's become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it's still effective and it still has to be done.

It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.

I'd have to say that Kenny White has earned a place among my favorite singer/songwritersand particularly, lyricists. As we say in the trade “he goes deep.” A true wordsmith AND musician who reveals a fine sense of humor, as well. Put on your headphones and listen carefully.

I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers.

Dude, if you want to be a great musician, you have to try heroin. You'll see. It's like being back in the womb.