Top 1200 Classical Musicians Quotes & Sayings - Page 18
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
What intrigues me is that you get a good bunch of musicians together, and interesting things will happen.
I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.
I guess I'm used to seeing actors, but rock musicians still hold a special magic for me.
There's a lot of integrity with musicians; you really still aspire to grow, and be great, to be the best version of yourself you can be.
What’d I tell you about musicians? That bad boy type will only break your heart.
Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.
When I work with different musicians, I draw a lot of things from them, and that has really expanded my musical thinking.
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
People think it comes easy to us because we are from a family full of musicians, but I feel it's all about talent.
I have had a place in New York in the musicians' district on the Upper West Side since 1986.
We're tired of band videos where all you see is musicians playing in some random church or out in a desert.
It's funny, there aren't too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There's a few - the really brilliant ones.
Just because you put super great musicians together, it doesn't mean you're going to have that chemistry as a band.
I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.
I think Spotify is honestly just another one of Sean Parker's ways of ripping musicians off.
I'm a huge fan of Chennai - the culture, the musicians, the audience... Language is not a barrier. It is all about the emotion in the music.
I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for.
I think I'm always surprised at how much the musicians I meet put weight on things that aren't music.
I'm the product of the classical, old-fashioned European education that is broad-based. You want to get your degree in the world, you have to study all sorts of things.
'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.
In the late 1960s, the New Classical economists saw the same weaknesses in the microfoundations of macroeconomics that have motivated me. They hated its lack of rigor. And they sacked it.
Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
I prefer live musicians whenever possible. And I tailor the ensemble to what is appropriate for the film and the score I'm writing.
It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians
To all the musicians who are making reggaeton, let's put some more effort into it and bring something new to the people!
YouTube is an amazing platform for young musicians - although it's harder to get noticed now that everyone is on it.
A lot of electronic musicians probably wouldn't be bothered making an album, which strategically makes total sense.
Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.
I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.
Prince, I think, trained amazing musicians to bring more to any musical table they come to.
A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?
Musicians are like a preacher, a teacher, an actor. You are the mediator who can transfer the energy of beautiful music to the others.
I would see musicians performing at weddings and bar mitzvahs, and I knew that at the very worst I could do that.
Musicians have made incredible contributions to the conservation and environmental movement and continue to do so, more than ever.
I was exposed to many kinds of music including rock and disco, classical and folk, Midtown and Miles Davis, Sly Stone and David Bowie.
As I've learned in the past few years, Mali is home to some of the most incredible musicians in the world.
Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians.
I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.
Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.
As an artist, you have to express yourself. I make no excuses for my versatility. I grew up singing classical arias, but I love rock n' roll and jazz standards.
The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking.
I studied classical percussion for ten years. At one point I was thinking about going to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, but then I realized it's actually not what I wanted to do.
YouTube is an amazing platform for young musicians - although its harder to get noticed now that everyone is on it.
I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians.
I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios.
I have a lot of relatives that were dancers and musicians and artists. They basically came out of the womb doing it.
It's amazing to hear proficient musicians play your music. It's a once in a lifetime kind of experience.
YouTube provides a unique opportunity for all musicians to market and promote their music and directly engage their fans.
Critics or musicians who attack me are jealous of my success and the fact that I make people feel so happy.
Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians.
It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians.
My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.
Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died.
The National's favorite experiences as musicians are when we are collaborating with people a little outside of our world as a band.
I have been touring since I got my first band in 1962, so there is no problem there. We are basically performing musicians, so that's what we do.
You know what rock musicians are? They are hung up, neurotic, over-weight hippies with sex problems.
We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.
Mickey Gee will be remembered for his guitar playing by the public and true fellow musicians.
I've always tried to be a poet more than anything else. I mean, professional musicians die.
