Quotes About Music

Most people are at a concert because they want to be inspired, entertained, moved; we musicians have the mission to be bringers of joy, of ecstasy.

Our parents were musicians.

Musicians have been political literally since people were writing songs.

Orchestral musicians have a different approach than we do, and when I say 'we,' I mean musicians who don't know what they are doing.

Lots of musicians from non-filmi backgrounds and from independent bands are making it to mainstream cinema. Even the music directors are experimenting with different genres.

There's a lot of older musicians who say your whole life making music, you're really trying to get back to that first couple of things you liked when you were a kid. And as much as you might like to think you're not, you really are.

What intrigues me is that you get a good bunch of musicians together, and interesting things will happen.

You must remember I grew up around music. Three of my family were musicians.

It's my fault in many cases because I don't initiate the contact to talk with a lot of other musicians.

Like most musicians, I'm good at becoming immersed in the music that I am currently working on. We seldom lift up our heads to contemplate even the music we will be doing in the future, let alone what we've done in the past.

In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.

I enjoy seeing other Indian musicians - old and young - coming to Europe and America and having some success. I'm happy to have contributed to that.

I think the future looks great for music, musicians, bass players, and all we love about music.

The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.

There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25.

Both of my parents were musicians.

Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days.

I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each.

Most musicians count at the beginning, and never count and talk to their musicians after that. They only talk to them at the end of the song. But I would count with them and talk.

I don't control it at all. It's all up to the musicians in the group. They control it. They make all the cues, and they tell me what they want, and then I act like a mirroring device so that everyone can see what the cues are.

We're not spokespeople, we're musicians.

It's great to have all this stuff at home. But when you want to make it for real, there's still nothing like making music with a bunch of other great musicians in the same room. That's one thing that'll never change.

As for style, there is something about the way musicians dress-they seem to be able to create their own world within their fashion alone.

By and large musicians are pretty lazy; they don't do a whole lot. They're usually very busy doing nothing.