Quotes on Musician

You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

Improvising musicians are musical travelers, voyagers. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.

Where words leave off, music begins.

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.

I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way.

Every time we give a musician the advice to give away the music and sell the T-shirt, we're saying, "Don't make your living in this more elevated way. Instead, reverse this social progress, and choose a more physical way to make a living." We're sending them to peasanthood, very much like the Maoists have.

An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.

Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.

Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times.

I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.

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

Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.

Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape.

You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.

Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.

I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.

The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're there and playing, it's marvelous.