Quotes on Musician

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

I think of myself as a jungle musician because of my lack of formal training.

I've made my pact with the Lord for the next lifetime. I would love to be a first-class musician. A super one.

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

Dancing is very important to people who play music with a beat. I think that people who don't dance, or who never did dance, don't really understand the beat... I know musicians who don't and never did dance, and they have difficulty communicating.

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

Never assume that simply having a gun makes you a marksman. You are no more armed because you are wearing a pistol than you are a musician because you own a guitar.

It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.

To me, art is the capacity to experience one's innocence: craft is how you get to that point. Maturity in a musician would be the point at which one is innocent at will. At that point the relationship between music and the musician is direct and reliable._x000D_ The relationship with music is always mysterious: when it works, you can never tell. You can never guarantee when it's going to work. You can only to put yourself in a place where it's more likely to happen.

Music comes from the musician, not the instrument.

If you were to ask me, 'What the hell does a musician have in common with a restaurant?' I would say a huge amount. It's show time every day, it's a team of people, like, running a circus, which is running a rock-and-roll band.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with the grouping of the instruments in the orchestra, but with such ease, delicacy and art, with such mastery throughout.

I think jazz is a beautiful, democratic music. It encourages musicians with very strong, and many times, very different points of view to work together as a team while, at the same time, giving them the space to express their individuality. It's a very important art form and can be used as a model for different cultures to work together.

I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.'

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

The majority of juice-heads and winos and junkies arent musicians.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.