Musician Quotes - Page 18

We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.

I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts.

The first time I hung out with [David Blaine], he took me to this condemned building, and it had a pizza oven and he crawled into the pizza oven and turned the heat on to 400 degrees or something like that, and he stayed in it for I guess a half hour. He came out, and except for one or two second-degree burns, he was unscathed. You meet a lot of musicians and filmmakers and actors, but it's rare to meet someone who can step inside a pizza oven and take the heat. I was intrigued by that.

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.

Musicians more than most people are in the moment. That's the dual nature of that job.

I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician.

Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!

Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.

I didn't decide to become a musician until the age of 15, which is quite late.

I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I'm up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.

I guess every musician looks forward to a point where they can just kind of make an album that truly is like a nice art album.

As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music behind the notes.

I'm an example of someone who never made it to university. I did have this dream to be a musician. I felt that this dream had an expiration date.

Tom [Courtenay] and Albert Finney met Ron Harwood on the dresser, so that's how it started. It's a wonderful documentary. It's called Tosca's Kiss and Mr Hardwood told me about it when I asked him what the genesis was. It was made in 1983 and Verdi, who was rich and successful, toward the end of his life decided to build a mansion for himself in Milan, where he lived, and he stipulated that when he died opera singers and musicians - because he knew so many who were no longer playing at the Scala and some were poor - could live there.

As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.

I went to university (Brown), I worked as a designer, I competed in Olympic sport (rowing) ... and I ended up being a musician. It's in the DNA, I guess.

Musicians can look forward to playing with the best musicians that ever played. They can even have their own band!

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.

If you're trying to connect to people with music - it's more of an outward process and a lot of times musicians can be very inward.

Classical music gradually lost popularity because it is too complicated: you need twenty-five or thirty skilled musicians just to hum it properly. So people began to develop regular music.

When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba.

Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now, direct the Jazz Ensemble and teach improvisation classes.

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs

Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door.