Musician Quotes - Page 2

Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with 'Stairway to Heaven.'

The planet is asleep and it's the fault of musicians who are untrue to themselves.

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest.

I was approached by Oxfam to go to Mali as their ambassador and get involved in their various initiatives out there. But I felt that was missing the point of using me, a musician

People who have gone, are still here, in us. Places we came from, are carried to the places we go.

Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch.

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them.

Having played with other musicians, I don't even think The Beatles were that good.

A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.

Music comes from the musician, not the instrument.

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies

An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician.

If all you have is music, then you don't have music

The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.

The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work.

I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.

My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally he'd let me visit where he worked. So I started going to his recording studio, and I really dug it.

I think most musicians do like to have a laugh.

I know perfectly well that no musician can make his thoughts or his talents different to what Heaven has made them; but I also know that if Heaven had given him good ones, he must also be able to develop them properly.

It will lead many musicians out of the cul-de-sac they currently face. And those that do not understand will be cursed to make disposable music on laptops forever.

I once painted a concert singer and on the chestnut frame I carved the opening bars of Mendelssohn's Rest in the Lord. It was ornamental unobtrusive and to musicians I think it emphasized the expression of the face and pose of the figure.

A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the Modifier's Madness. A lot of adjectives working overtime.

I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated.