Quotes About Musician

It's funny, there aren't too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There's a few - the really brilliant ones.

Being a musician is a given for me-I didn't have much choice in the matter.

Marketing is so powerful that it can make even an extremely untalented musician a one-hundred-hits wonder.

Most of the people in my family were pretty funny. Everyone had a good sense of humor. I came to California right after college, wanting to be a musician.

As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.

I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that was that.

There was an old musician's cliché, about how there were no wrong notes on a piano. But her life was a cacophony of nonsense. A piece that could have gone in wonderful directions, but now went nowhere at all.

It's not the instrument that makes the music beautiful - it's the musician.

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The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.

and Justin Beaver's greatest hits. He's totes the best musician ever.

Being rebellious and black, a nonconformist, being cool and hip and angry and sophisticated and ultra clean, whatever else you want to call it -- I was all those things and more. But I was playing the fuck out of my horn and had a great group, so I didn't get recognition based only on a rebel image.

Naw, I wasn't going to sell my principles for them. I wanted to be accepted as a good musician and that didn't call for no grinning, but just being able to play the horn good. And that's what I did then and now. Critics can take that or leave it.

Instead of going to college, I spent my time out on the road learning how to be a better musician.

A musician is similar to someone who wrote a letter to the loved one. Then decided to read it out loud instead of sending it.

Even a professional musician doesn't trust the microphone, that's why he has to test it many times at first.

The present world is good, but broken and in any case incomplete; art of all kinds enables us to understand that paradox in its many dimensions. But the present world is also designed for something which has not yet happened. It is like a violin waiting to be played: beautiful to look at, graceful to hold—and yet if you'd never heard one in the hands of a musician, you wouldn't believe the new dimensions of beauty yet to be revealed.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what.

Bob Klose left the band during the summer of 1965 at the insistence of both his father and his college tutors. He did surreptitiously play a few more times with us, but even though we were losing the person we considered our most proficient musician, it didn't seem like a major setback. This remarkable prescience – or sheer lack of imagination – was to become something of a habit.

even if Guy Pratt was the last out of the bar the night – or morning – before, his playing was faultless on stage, a tribute to his iron constitution or the fact that our music was too easy.

I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so it's difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting - I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels.

I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.