Top 1200 Great Musician Quotes & Sayings - Page 18
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Last updated on November 28, 2024.
Flip Saunders is a great coach and a great guy. Glen Taylor is the same way. He's a great human being.
My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician
Bob Marley was always ready to deal with the politics of what was happening in the world but, at the same time, not lose sight of the fact that he's a musician.
I think of myself as someone who's trying to be a great songwriter and a great performer. And I mean really great.
I was worried that I didn't have as many Facebook 'likes' as another musician. You can almost feel like a failure if you aren't building your fame in that way.
I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way.
Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.
Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.
It was tough leaving Boston with a great city, a great organization and a great bunch of guys.
I don't want to be a great chief executive without being a great mum and a great wife.
It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.
I want to be more than just a musician or an artist and I felt that I achieved that, with Forbes. I was ready to start a new chapter in my life.
I have a great band from Jersey and New York. I say that because they got great attitude, and we have a great time on stage.
That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.
Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.
One thing I always found hard to stomach over the past few years is that being a DJ or musician is a career opportunity.
Every Great Story deserves a Great Ending and
'The Dark Knight Rises' is our Attempt to give that GREAT story, a GREAT ENDING.
The French have never produced a great philosopher. Great wine maybe, but no great philosophers.
I haven't got ambitions. Actually, I'm determined not to die until I get very old. I want to be a great-great-great-grandmother.
What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It's the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: 'He passed it on.'
I'm not a great dancer. I'm a great advertisement for freedom of expression. I don't care what you think. I'm having a great time.
We needed to have a great set decorator, a great D.P., a great costume designer, everybody. Without all these people, we would have made a shitty movie.
I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do.
I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.
I'm not necessarily in a vocation where I'm at risk; it's not like I'm a police officer. I'm a musician, so when I leave home, my family expects me to come back.
As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.
You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.
Pretty much every artist in Scotland - musician, writer, poet, actor - they're all part of a thing called the National Collective.
My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.
You can start with a great director and great actors and have a great script - and it still just doesn't work. It's kind of a mystery how that happens.
Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.
Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however, there is a glorious unity.
The greatest compliment to any player is he is a great teammate. We can't all be great players, but we can all be great teammates
Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them
I know this as a musician: When you nail something, and you get so much attention for it, you want to strip that away and prove, mostly for yourself, that you don't need that.
When Roman Polanski did give you a "Great, great, great!" you were just like, "Thank you, Lord, for this magical moment."
A tremendous chief executive in a small market will never be great. All great companies start with great markets.
I always go for just really, hopefully, great writing and great acting, being in the company of great actors.
My grandparents were from Kentucky - I'm related to Daniel Boone. He was my great-great-great uncle.
I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full-bloom from my brow - they came from the heart of a great nation.
As corny as it sounds, I'm often pinching myself going, 'What great opportunities and great parts and great people that I've gotten to work with.
We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.
I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.
Bill Justis was a saxophone player, good musician, arranger, and friend of mine who had a big hit called 'Raunchy.'
I still have a hard time just calling myself a musician. If I'm talking to somebody and they ask me what I do, I say I play music.
Your parents tell you that you can do anything that you want, but then you turn 20, and they're like "I think you should be a doctor, instead of a musician."
Nothing great was ever achieved without great work and great effort. It's really that simple.
It's great to see wrestling expand and get the attention it deserves. It's such a great, great sport.
I got to work for some great administrators at great institutions, and I had an opportunity to coach great players. Iowa is no different.
I'm a big believer that an actor should be able to pick up any piece of material and act it, the way a good musician can.
Being successful doesn’t necessarily make you great. What makes you great is when you reach back and help somebody else become great.
Manchester United are a great club, and being associated with them is a great compliment for me, but Atletico are also great.
Great direction, great acting partner, great character backstory - these are all rare luxuries to have in the room.
I feel that, as a Puerto Rican and Latin American musician, a lot of the stuff that I write, even if I mean it or not, is gonna have some elements of that.
That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great materials to work from.
Actually, I wanted to be a musician, either a guitarist or a drummer. I guess my dreams were in the entertainment industry, and I landed somewhere along there.
Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with 'Stairway to Heaven.'
As corny as it sounds, I'm often pinching myself going, 'What great opportunities and great parts and great people that I've gotten to work with.'
It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
I had great teachers, great ensembles, and great companies to work with who supported my career.
