Musician Quotes - Page 27

It is always the same with me; only when I experience something do I compose, and only when composing do I experience! After all, a musician's nature can hardly be expressed in words.

If being a gangster were a prerequisite to being a musician, there'd be a lot less cello music, for example.

At a certain age I just stopped arguing. I realized that there was no way [my father] could see, because for him to approve of what I was doing, he would have to have some belief in me as a musician.

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

You can't teach a young musician to compose any more than you can teach a delicate plant to grow, but you can guide him a little by planting a stick in here and a stick in there.

Nobody gives a crap if we're great musicians.

I'm just one of these unpopular musicians.

Painters can study the masters can't they? Musicians can hear Beethoven. What will filmmakers do?

I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.

Touring is my favorite part of being a musician. All the places I've traveled and lived affect me in many different ways. Good and bad.

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.

Shyness is a curious thing, because, like quicksand, it can strike people at any time, and also, like quicksand, it usually makes its victims look down.

For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.

Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.

I first came to London as a musician, and when my group broke up, I did 'Guys and Dolls' at the Watford Palace theatre. After that, Ned Sherrin found me and brought me to the West End to do one of his shows. The work went from strength to strength, so I thought: 'This is where the world wants me; I'll stay.

I got by as a musician since day one. I don't live beyond my means. I have real cheap tastes.

A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special - spiritually or however you can

I never became primarily a musician! I've always been a wanderer and I'm always bored.

Musicians have to do what they do and express it musically. All the blah blah blah will get lost in the dialogue.

I wanted to get my recording and become a musician again, work; with other people, do that kind of thing because I kind of got away from that for a while once we started happening, you know, selling records, sold out concerts.

Whatever I do, I attempt to do it fully. I try, and don't always succeed, to be thorough. There are musicians who do not know their worth, and if they knew it at one time, it has eluded them. I know my worth. You try not to dwell in the past.

A musician can get lost to what he is in the session busines as it was.

I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.

Music proposes. Sound disposes.

I wanted to be a musician but I didn't have the talent for it, so I decided I wanted to be famous, so I became an actor.