Musician Quotes - Page 9

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.

Well, it'll always be disco/electro-pop. That's what I first wanted to do when I started out as a musician in 1977. It's only ever been dance-pop that I've wanted to do.

I realized that I don't like touring. I'll never complain about it because no one wants to hear about a relatively successful musician complain about the hardships of staying in a hotel.

Music can shoot through the musician like lightening through the sky if that music is unobstructed by thoughts.

I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.

I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.

I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.

The death of young musicians isn’t something to romanticize.

I did everything I could to not be a musician.

As a musician usually music is your way out.

You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor.

To be honest, I don't necessarily think you have to be an actor to act. You don't have to be a musician to make great music. If it comes along and you put your all into it, the outcome is what's important.

I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.

(For songwriters) Development of your facility as a musician is also important.

Love, the supreme musician, is always playing in our souls

Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.

I owe everything to the musicians I work with.

Today all sounds belong to a continuous field of possibilities lying within the comprehensive dominion of music. Behold the new orchestra: the sonic universe! And the musicians: anyone and anything that sounds!

Music, as long as it exists, will always take its departure from the major triad and return to it. The musician cannot escape it any more than the painter his primary colors or the architect his three dimensions.

A wedding is like a funeral, but with musicians.

The best musicians are not the best players, they're the best listeners.

My approach to music is very deep. I do not compromise with anybody or anything else in the world. I do not care. I want to really go beyond this materialistic world...not for the sake of enjoyment, entertainment, no. A musician must lift up the souls of the listeners, and take them towards Space.

All of music is connected, but a lot of people don't see it that way

... The 'cleverness' syndrome has taken the place of melody. It's like everyone has come down with this terrible disease in jazz....you are always expected to do your own material, which is a strange thing to do if you're a poor composer but a great player.