Musician Quotes - Page 3

I'm embarrassed when I see Brits abroad; they have their tops off, wear flip flops, and shout at the top of their voices.

Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo.

Buddy Rich was one of the most incredible technicians in the world, on this planet, but the only people he could really impress, who knew what he was doing was another musician or another drummer.

The Americans expect great things of me ... If the small Czech nation can have such musicians, they say, why could not they, too, when their country and people is so immense.

One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound.

Never assume that simply having a gun makes you a marksman. You are no more armed because you are wearing a pistol than you are a musician because you own a guitar.

Regardless of the method, the act of worship must be in spirit and truth-from our rational consciousness and consistent with the rest of our lives (see John 4:24). We don't have to be great singers or musicians to worship God. But we do need to be in a personal relationship with Him and live with the truth of His greatness reflecting through all we are becoming and all we do.

'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music.

Music had been going on a long time before that. You have to remember that before rock n' roll there were a bunch of jazz musicians all doing heroin. That sh*t has been around a long time.

My name's Darren. I'm a musician, part time idiot. That's a full time job actually.

If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold.

I have been a provoker and I'll probably always be one in the public arena for the rest of my life.

I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf.

The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me.

Find what you're best at and exaggerate it.

I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter. In some way, in some form, my God was always there, but now I have learned to talk to him.

A mathematician will recognise Cauchy, Gauss, Jacobi or Helmholtz after reading a few pages, just as musicians recognise, from the first few bars, Mozart, Beethoven or Schubert.

Who told you I was a musician?

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!

Music chooses her musicians.

I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.

[Louis Armstrong] was the only musician who ever lived, who can't be replaced by someone.

I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie.

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.