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!

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.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

I love music more than I love people.

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 find it hard to work with other musicians because I know from experience that when they play, they play with their feeling, and that restricts me because I know I want to play in my own particular way.

My daughter Meredith Moon from my second wife has a band that does Appalachian music, with five-strong banjo, clawhammer style. I may have to direct her somewhere. Meredith was my middle name. I would have to direct her because I am always directing something. She’s in the musician’s union and she is only 21. Your kids surprise you.

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 will not hide the fact that I love to hear the spectators react after a sacrifice of a piece or pawn. I don’t think that there is anything bad in such a feeling; no artist or musician is indifferent to the reactions of the public.

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.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

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.

Up-and-coming musicians can easily reach out and find a loving teacher, and that’s definitely what happened to me.

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.