Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Harrison

The musicians will come back. It's going to take a long time, but New Orleans can actually be a better place because of this.

Brian Cox

An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician.

Billie Joe Armstrong

That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.

Duke Ellington

The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a musician is he.

Anthony Davis

I knew I could never be accepted as a straight-ahead jazz musician, nor would Iaccept myself as that. I would never be accepted as a minimalist. I wouldn't be adowntown composer. Because I find all orthodoxies, all doctrines to be ultimatelybanal.

Conrad Hall

I suppose I would still be a communicator, maybe a musician.

Dave Brubeck

Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians.

Darren Criss

As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything - I just enjoy music.

Anthony Hopkins

I wanted to be a musician but I didn't have the talent for it, so I decided I wanted to be famous, so I became an actor.

It was clear from the beginning that I was going to be a musician.

Allison Pearson

The best musicians answer something in you when you don't even know the question.

Tinie Tempah

Being able to travel the world is pretty cool. There are places that I've always wanted to go to but being able to go there as somebody who's a musician and is recognised as one is cool.

Tony Levin

Like many musicians, I don't look back much... only concentrate on what music I'm doing, and occasionally look ahead.

Romain Rolland

Everything is music for the born musician.

Sufjan Stevens

A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the 'Modifier's Madness.' A lot of adjectives working overtime.

Rosanne Cash

More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context.

Mary Timony

I feel really different from other musicians.

Elvis Costello

I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale.

Greg Giraldo

If being a gangster were a prerequisite to being a musician, there'd be a lot less cello music, for example.

Gloria Estefan

A lot of the way I sing is playing off other musicians. It's what I love to do the most.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

We are concerned, not with the development of just one capacity, such as that of a mathematician, or a scientist, or a musician, but with the total development of the student as a human being.

Frank Zappa

I'm just one of these unpopular musicians.

Itzhak Perlman

You decide to be a musician, you have to put in the time.

Idina Menzel

The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.

Adrian Grenier

I'm a self-taught musician, so I never really had the restrictions of any one instrument. I would always just sort of pick up instruments and make noise with 'em.

Kathleen Blanco

We have a lot of talent in Louisiana, ... For years, our musicians have had to go to Nashville or New York to record.,

Dave Van Ronk

There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians.

Paul Simon

Jay Ashby is simply a great musician!