Musician Quotes - Page 46

I am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being.

I don't look at music from the standpoint of being a musician; I look at it from the standpoint of being a human being.

Selfishly, I make music for me. I like to make music. I like looking for songs. I like working with interesting musicians. I like producing records. It's something I will always do.

Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt to get below the concert-pitch; and we take heaven to tune our hearts by.

Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.

If you are a musician who has released albums, it would perhaps be morbidly interesting to know how much you would be owed if everyone who now has your music had actually bought your record.

Sometimes when you meet a musician you are a fan of, and he or she isn't the friendliest person, you walk away from the experience wondering if you will ever be able to listen to their music again.

Lou Reed's music has been in the lives of millions of people all over the world for decades. He had a truly universal presence and was respected by musicians across all genres.

There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.

Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician.

Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.

I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history.

I would say I'm a musician first, actually. I started playing music when I was 10. Then I started designing, went to school, set up a proper business about 10 years ago - our anniversary coming up. But I've played music throughout and still am.

The musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is new.

So for all that we might speak words in each other's vicinity, this could never develop into anything that could be called a conversation. It was as though we were speaking in different languages. If the Dalai Lama were on his deathbed and the jazz musician Eric Dolphy were to try to explain to him the importance of choosing one's engine oil in accordance with changes in the sound of the bass clarinet, that exchange might have been more worthwhile and effective than my conversations with Noboru Wataya.

For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.

The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape.

I'm a musician. Anything I've done as an actor has come from that.

By and large, musicians respect New York audiences, and also are greatly concerned about New York reviews.

The place that I found where European musicians and American musicians come together is that odd middle world which is called uncertainty.

Musicians are affected by the audience just as much as audiences are affected by the musicians. The only problem is that often times musicians won't allow themselves to admit to that fact.

There was a very famous musician in our family. He was a great violinist, an internationally known teacher. He was Leopold Auer.

I have a real love of sound and the shape of the sound. I'm a musician, and I'm fascinated with the effects of sound, and tone, and pitch and melody and all that sort of stuff.

Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style.

If you look at the way people behave at shows, icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship.