Quotes on Musician

A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.

There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there'd be something I'd miss that was funny in the future. If there's a chance I'm going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that.

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.

Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament.

The trouble with most musicians today is that they are copycats. Of course you have to start out playing like someone else. You have a model, or a teacher, and you learn all that he can show you. But then you start playing for yourself. Show them that you're an individual. And I can count those who are doing that today on the fingers of one hand.

Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.

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

Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what.

All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.

She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience, and mourns the loss of intensity. Maybe it's why musicians and mathmaticians are said to peak young-poetry needs the fire of an unbounded universe.

People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them.

Arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, — finding things ready-made for a machine to record, and of course the mechanics of the medium. I say that chance enters into all branches of art.

I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.

I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

It is not ignoble to feel that the fuller life which a sad experience_x000D_ _x000D_ has brought us is worth our personal share of pain. The growth of higher feeling_x000D_ _x000D_ within us is like the growth of faculty, bringing with it a sense of added strength._x000D_ _x000D_ We can no more wish to return to a narrower sympathy than painters or musicians_x000D_ _x000D_ can wish to return to their cruder manner, or philosophers to their less complete formulas.

There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the desire to become somebody. Contemplate the crowds of people who are striving might and main to become, not what Nature intended them to be- musicians, cooks, mechanics, carpenters, gardeners, inventors- but "somebody": to become successful, famous, powerful; to become something that will bring not quiet and self-fulfillment, but self-glorification and self-expansion

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life.

Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners.