Best Musician Quotes

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

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.

Love the life you live. Live the life you love.

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.

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

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

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Life is one big road with lots of signs, So when you riding through the ruts, Don’t you complicate your mind Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy Don’t bury your thoughts; put your vision to reality.

No matter what culture you’re from, everyone loves music.

It’s probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet.

Music speaks from spirit to spirit and in that sense you could call it a true spiritual language.

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.

I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, and Little Walter. In some way, in some form, my God was always there, but now I have learned to talk to him.

A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons. I didn’t like the lessons very much, but I was enchanted by music. Music always transported me somewhere. Singing made feel good and being able to play the piano made me feel good.

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.

Artist – musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.

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

I didn’t really think I would be a musician. I always thought I’d be a writer. I wanted to be a writer in college, but I thought I could be a better musician. I loved the process of writing music and lyrics more than I loved the process of sitting at my computer and writing. Because of that, I thought I would be a better musician than a writer.

I think there’s a difference between the type of folk music that people put into the box of folk music and then there’s the kind of folk music that I aspire to and am in awe of, and that is the kind of folk music where it’s very limited tools – in most cases a guitar, in a self-taught style that is idiosyncratic and particular to that musician.

And with a few moments like that, with doubt from here and there, and within ourselves we were just striving for excellence. We had somehow understood and felt that all the musicians who would come to the House later on, that all the singers, the big artists, were striving for excellence in their life and we thought a house for them, there’s no limit to the excellence it should have because it should match their strive for perfection

Musician’ is not a very respected title. I’m not a musician.

There’s something extremely fragile about musicians, and that’s their strength.

I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer – I’m going to push myself to do as many things as I can and see where it goes.

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking of what they’ll do musically, I try to imagine being locked into a windowless room with this person for twelve hours at a time. If you can look at that and think it might be fun then maybe you’ve got the right musician.

Down the road someone is practicing scales,
The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails

What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present is elite, it is the best and all of us as artists should be committed to that.

So it’s more the musician in me that makes me stretch out and try different things more than anything. But, like a lot of guitar players, I have one certain niche that’s my thing that I’m better at than the others

When I’m doing interviews, I’m doing interviews, and when I am writing, I’m writing. I sit there with a musician and I write. It’s the same process since I started writing in my twenties. I like to come in and leave with a finished song.