Browsing Topic 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.

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

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.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

There’s a lot of different forms of communication, but music is absolutely the purest one.

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

The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man’s soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we give birth to the children of God, who sing his praise. That’s what musicians are.

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

Music is the universal language of mankind.

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.

There are questions I’m still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.

I’ve heard Eric Clapner, … I think it was a wonderful thing that Eric Clapner the musician did…So I think that’s the wonderful part about it, but listen – I like Eric Clapner!

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

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

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.

The Creator wants us to drum. He wants us to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants. After all, we have already corrupted the world with power and greed….which hasn’t gotten us anywhere – now’s the time to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants.

I am not fitted to give concerts. The audience intimidates me, I feel choked by its breath, paralyzed by its curious glances, struck dumb by all those strange faces.

I love music more than I love people.

At birth we begin to discover that shapes, sounds, lights, and textures have meaning. Long before we learn to talk, sounds and images form the world we live in. All our lives, that world is more immediate than words and difficult to articulate. Photography, reflecting those images with uncanny accuracy, evokes their associations and our instant conviction. The art of the photographer lies in using those connotations, as a poet uses the connotations of words and a musician the tonal connotations of sounds.

I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.

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

I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it’s going to happen, but as musicians I think we’ve got to step up and say ‘come on’.

A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

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.

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

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

Owning a handgun doesn’t make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.

Why do we idolise Christian singers and speakers? We go from glorifying musicians in the world to glorifying Christian musicians. It’s all idolatry!Satan is getting a great victory as we seem to worship these ministers on tapes and records and clammer to get their autographs in churches and concert halls from coast to coast.