Quotes on Musicians

I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not.

Author: Luther Allison

When I was recording from '70 to '82, I always played piano and laid the tracks down. But I used to talk to the other musicians while the track was playing.

Author: Roy Ayers

I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.

Author: Cecilia Bartoli

When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.

Author: Les Baxter

I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each.

Author: Les Baxter

All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds.

Author: Marc Bolan

Our parents were musicians.

Author: Caroline Corr

Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song.

Author: Neil Diamond

There's a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary.

Author: Trevor Dunn

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

Author: Duke Ellington

You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.

Author: David Elliott

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

Author: Stan Getz

The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.

Author: Greg Ginn

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

Author: Benny Goodman

Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general.

Author: Lionel Hampton

It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians are, for better or worse, prisoners of Gutenberg.

Author: Donal Henahan

I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios.

Author: Ken Hensley

Musicians always come off sounding a little bit pretentious, and a little bit... I don't know, hypocritical, from what they do, talking about strong issues.

Author: James Iha

I think most musicians do like to have a laugh.

Author: Neil Innes

Well, remember that we were all members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.

Author: Joseph Jarman

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.

Author: Billy Joel

I mean, I could just go round and use session musicians for every song, but I don't find that helps when it comes to setting up a band for live. Derrick has been with me for donkey's years.

Author: Jay Kay

We spent a month in LA using a pool of musicians, a string arranger called Benjamin Wright, some great backing singers, and it gave tracks like Dynamite, which was written there, that kind of flavour.

Author: Jay Kay

Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.

Author: Alexis Korner

When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all.

Author: Steve Lacy

I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.

Author: Gyorgy Ligeti

The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band.

Author: Lisa Loeb

What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting.

Author: Herbie Mann

The Doors were never that good as musicians.

Author: Ray Manzarek

If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.

Author: Neville Marriner

The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did.

Author: Wynton Marsalis

There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away.

Author: Brownie McGhee

I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.

Author: Robert Moog

We're all players and musicians and we sure all get along good. We just clicked right off the bat. We started playing and then we almost immediately started recording.

Author: Krist Novoselic

We're not spokespeople, we're musicians.

Author: Ed O'Brien

You can have all sorts of relationships, but there's something with musicians working together where you can have relationship that can just continue to grow in a beautiful way.

Author: Beth Orton

I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.

Author: Jimmy Page

We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.

Author: Oscar Peterson

Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good.

Author: Adam Rich

I guess fortunate that I'm still around and I emphasize I guess because you never can tell what musicians would be playing had they been around as long as I have.

Author: Sonny Rollins

So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary.

Author: Gunther Schuller

In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.

Author: John Sebastian

When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba.

Author: Compay Segundo

I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing.

Author: Billy Sheehan

You know, musicians aren't very stable, in case you hadn't noticed.

Author: Josh Silver

And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.

Author: Karlheinz Stockhausen

I feel really different from other musicians.

Author: Mary Timony

It was about working with other musicians, but more than that it's about exploring musical areas that you could never do with the band you're in, in my case Judas Priest. You could tackle musical areas and lyrical areas that wouldn't be appropriate for Priest.

Author: Glenn Tipton

I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.

Author: Eberhard Weber

Both of my parents were musicians.

Author: Bryan White

Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.

Author: Cassandra Wilson

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

Author: Frank Zappa

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.

Author: John Zorn

Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now.

Author: John Zorn