Musician Quotes - Page 5

You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.

Too many musicians rush through everything with too many notes. I need time to take the picture. A ballad should be a ballad. It's important to understand what the song is saying, and learn how to tell the story. It takes time. I can't rush it. I really can't rush it.

You don't decide you're hip. It just happens that way.

I'm a musician and, just as the critics are hard on me, I'm hard on the critics.

I don't think you can learn to be a complete musician. That has to come from within, and it entails a lot of sacrifice.

The majority of juice-heads and winos and junkies arent musicians.

I knew that I was going to have a life as a musician, because I always felt the pull. I don't remember ever having to make a choice.

A genius! For 37 years I've practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist -- or else it is nothing, an empty, formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.

Worship the music, not the musicians.

When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work.

I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

Everything is music for the born musician.

To be an outstanding musician, you have to be very attentive to the smallest detail and willing to have infinite patience in the pursuit of your ideal. You require absolute control and professionalism.

It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.

I'm not a musician - I'm a ham.

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.

Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.

The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians.

The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.

Ideally the point of music is community, not the player. Musicians are simply channels to link the audience to the music and to each other.

There won't ever be a mass-market record industry again, and that's fine with me because that industry didn't operate for the benefit of the musicians or the audience, the only classes of people I care about.

Finding a good bus driver can be as important as finding a good musician.

[Bach is the] reason I became a musician