Top 1200 Classical Musicians Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community — connectors and openers, not untouchable stars.
It's good to be in a position to know that I've inspired musicians, from what I've learned to lay down personally, and collectively with Led Zeppelin.
There are a lot better musicians than me out there that just haven't had the luck to fall into everything like I have.
Music is like having a conversation. All musicians inspire each other, and they're all geared to play something that matters.
I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.
In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play.
For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.
I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
I think there are just a million interviews in anthologies with famous musicians that are about the music, and they're really boring to read.
Being from Israel and a Jew is complex already, but with France, there is a freedom and a mix of culture. I have met musicians from all over the world.
Musicians are so well covered in the press, it would be great to see more outspoken practitioners of green life.
Musicians coming together at a time of need is one of the great traditions in this country. It's like people taking charge.
My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.
I grew up with classical music, and to a lesser extent electronic music, and that's where I belong, so to speak.
I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me
Music that is created with the primary aim of impressing other musicians fails to connect with the vast majority of listeners.
I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer.
I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.
Music in Africa is perceived so differently than Western classical music - it's language and storytelling.
Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!
Lady Gaga is one of the most amazingly talented musicians to bring her gifts to humanity in a long time.
Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all.
For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.
Up-and-coming musicians can easily reach out and find a loving teacher, and that's definitely what happened to me.
Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.
That's one of the things about being married to a couple of musicians, I have got great iPods. That's what I was left with -- an iPod each.
I used to love jungle. I still think it's the ultimate genre, really, because the people making it weren't musicians.
I don't hate being compared with female musicians. I don't mind that at all. I have no problem with seeing connections between women's work.
When you make an album, you have a team of musicians you work with; when you're a director and you're creating a motion picture, it's a much bigger animal.
We need to bring music to the people, even to those who normally do not listen to classical music.
The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the Gypsies.
Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.
Musicians always respected me because they knew I'm a huge music lover and I know what I'm talking about.
The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and its important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.
Getting this caliber of musicians together [for "90 Millas" CD in September of 2007] is almost impossible to do again.
I studied classical violin and voice until I was 18 and by then I had had my fill.
Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.
My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.
I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me.
What I've witnessed, managers are divisive and allow musicians to become clouded, irresponsible, and unaware of the world around them.
My dad was my first influence. He played classical guitar and my uncle Ron played the blues.
What I wanted to do was music, until I was about 16. But it was jazz and rock, never classical music.
Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago.
The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did.
With 'Aja,' there was a sort of happy conjunction between our tastes and the backgrounds and styles of studio musicians at the time.
The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.
I had a lot of luck in meeting great musicians who were kind enough to show me things.
Musicians are also interpretive artists and we are just as creative as painters and writers. We interpret in a way that expresses ourselves.
I know so many Irish musicians. They're all over, because there has been so much emigration from Ireland. Like the Jews.
It turns out that there's a huge community of African-American musicians whose main influence is Throbbing Gristle.
A lot of young musicians in Stockholm are about keeping tradition alive and moving it forward at the same time.
Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.
For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.
I don't talk about my personal life. But the relationships I've had have usually been with other musicians. It's just easier that way.
Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.
When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all.
When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they're still here and passing it on to others.
I do the work with friends who are musicians as well. I'm working on a piece of music and I have an idea of who I want on the vocals, but I don't really have a list.
I loved Art Tatum! And, through him, and other different jazz musicians, I actually found my technique.
I've been collaborating with Ira Schickman on some songs, and there will be many other, great musicians involved.
