Top 1200 Female Musicians Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I can tell for sure, the technologists have made it clear that they don't care about musicians. The arts have been sacrificed on the altar of technological advancement.

Musicians want to be heard. So I'm not hiding. But I do like to leave it there onstage and be myself, in that sense. Because some people carry it with them.

To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.

To actually get together and make a band record feels like a bit of a big deal, and that can be quite daunting when you're musicians.

Ive always enjoyed the enthusiasm of the best studio musicians and, over the years, have collected so many inspired contributions from them.

What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.

I've got lots of friends who are musicians, so if they ask me to do things, I'll go and do it for a laugh. I don't want to be a pop star or anything like that.

I learn so much from writing with other musicians, asking questions about their playing style and gear, and hanging out, too.

I see myself as the female John Cleese.

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something thats never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.

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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.

I found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully.

Female directors are slightly less vociferous.

We are born male or female, but not masculine or feminine.

Tons of musicians who I love are imprisoned by their identity. That can be totally fine because they are so amazing in their technique, but for me, I'm a little too restless for that.

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

The Dead Daisies have been an absolute blast for me so far. The guys are all great musicians and also incredibly easy to work with.

Goat curry and a female librarian, that's what I'm in the mood for.

All musicians should write poetry or at least read it if they want to improve their game. Except for people who believe lyrics don't matter.

I think people want to put you in a box and close it away so that it makes them feel better. A lot of musicians get that.

Women are all female impersonators to some degree.

It's usually important to me to get my idea out first because a lot of times my ideas will seem weird to musicians.

Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.

The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy a beer.

Newspapers and magazines didn't want pictures of musicians behaving badly back then. Now, because of the Internet, that's all the media wants.

There was a lot of stuff happening in Havana that was being heard and appreciated by New Orleans musicians because of this situation. And vice versa.

You'll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.

Modesty is a diamond setting to female beauty.

As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of music like a math equation.

I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians apart.

I'll probably pay more attention to the musicians in the pit than the stars because they're the closest you're going to get to normal people in the audience.

Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.

I rarely do shows just by myself, I've had vocalists or musicians so I can look at them and connect - and say 'can you breathe... do you need a water?'

I love being called Baddest Female.

Certain jazz musicians just copy what was done 100 years ago. The music won't grow if nobody takes a risk.

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.

I don't have to be an engineer to understand we need female engineers.

I honestly haven't thought much about what to play and where, perhaps i should...it seems like most musicians are better at that than I am.

I wanted a more female point of view.

Our pure awareness is not male or female.

There is a lot of content out there for the female demographic.

My family is full of musicians, and a couple of times a year we get together and jam at my cousin's studio. We improvise and have a great time.

Writing is an art like other arts. Dancers don't dance every once in a while. Musicians don't stop practicing. They are dedicated to what they do.

All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama.

It's kind of a journalistic thing to say, 'This person is the next so and so.' I think actual musicians are never really into those kinds of comparisons.

I would love to bring the children from my foundation Sinfonia por el Peru to play with some of the best musicians in the world.

How hard is it to get female panellists?

Our true fans won't go anywhere. Hopefully they will be open-minded towards how we are growing as musicians and as women.

It's a good addition to get a female perspective.

Many classical musicians lack pulse and rhythmical strength and precision, so for us it was very important to acquire and learn those.

As I grew up, I wasn't a great buyer of albums, but I really liked 'The Jam.' I like good musicians and loved the energy of their songs.

I love music with my soul, but I'm also a student of it, so it's very important to me to earn the respect of my peers, my fellow musicians and producers.

Males shouldnt be jealous. Thats a female trait.

Men: Stand in solidarity with women. Women, if you were born female, you were born on a battlefield. You will be punished for even saying that out loud, but the grim truth is you're going to be punished no matter what for the 'sin' of being female. Battering is the most commonly committed violent crime in the United States. That's a man beating a woman. Globally, half of all women will experience life-threatening violence from a man. Half. That's more hatred than I can comprehend. Right now, that battlefield is such a slaughter that we can't even collect our wounded.

Intense study with Indian musicians such as Gaurav Majumdar and Zakir Hussain has inspired me to rethink my view of instrumental sound.

I love to do songs that speak of the female heart.

I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.

I do think men fear female intuition.