Musician Quotes - Page 4

I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.

Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.

I am an observer of life, a non-participant who takes no sides. I am in the regimented society, but not of it.

I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.

It's rare that I ever meet a musician who doesn't agree that music is a language. But it's very rare to meet a musician that really treats it like one.

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.

A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.

I have a problem with capitalism, in it's extreme sense. At the same time communism, I have a problem with that, because every man must feel like a lord in his own manor.

Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.

We are in a position, as musicians, to touch the souls of those who listen.

You've got to believe in yourself. ..it really is true, because that's one thing about the Beatles...Man, we believed in ourselves. We knew we were good.

The main thing a musician would like to do is to give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe.

If I wasn't a musician, I would be a serial killer.

I'd have no trouble being the barbecue kingpin of America. I'd just add it to all the other things I am: jazz musician, carpenter, architect, engineer and revolutionary.

The only reward the musician receives is music: the privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and takes us into its confidence. As it is for the audience. In this moment everything else is irrelevant and without power. For those in music, this is the moment when life becomes real.

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.

Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.

I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer.

I'm on my feet and I'm doing what I love to do, and I'm in a profession, as a musician, where we can go on for as long as we can go on.

No more painters, no more scribblers, no more musicians, no more sculptors, no more religions, no more royalists, no more radicals, no more imperialists, no more anarchists, no more socialists, no more communists, no more proletariat, no more democrats, no more republicans, no more bourgeois, no more aristocrats, no more arms, no more police, no more nations, an end at last to all this stupidity, nothing left, nothing at all, nothing, nothing.

Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.

When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level

Everything that happens helps you grow, even if its hard to see right now.