Top 1200 Greatest Musician Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

I'm not in it for my health. I'm a musician and I wanna live the way I do.

The truest and greatest Poetry, (while subtly and necessarily always rhythmic, and distinguishable easily enough) can never again, in the English language, be express'd in arbitrary and rhyming metre, any more than the greatest eloquence, or the truest power and passion.

The greatest contributor to the feeling of tension and fear of war arose from the power of the bombing aeroplane. If all nations would consent to abolish air bombardment . . . that would mean the greatest possible release from fear.

The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics - greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.

For nearly a century and a half, this country deluded itself into thinking that its greatest calamity, the Civil War, had nothing to do with one of its greatest sins, enslavement. It deluded itself in this manner despite available evidence to the contrary.

I'd really like to do a biopic of a musician.

As a musician, you just want to be able to do what you love.

I always knew I wanted to be a musician.

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

I've made a life and career as a professional musician.

There's a responsibility as a musician to do the music that you want to hear.

I'm a painter first, and a musician second.

I'd rather be a musician than a rock star.

As a young musician, you really want to play.

If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.

The greatest leader is not someone who is the only leader. The greatest leader is one who inspires others to be leaders.

Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.

I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.

From an early age, my intuition was that I would be a musician.

Paper is the strongest material in the world. Things under which a mountain will crumble, you can place on paper and it will hold: beauty at its most intense; love at its fiercest; the greatest grief; the greatest rage.

Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer.

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.

The jazz musician's function is to feel.

I've been a musician since my childhood.

I'm a Christian, but I'm just an artist. I'm a musician.

A musician's whole life is to listen.

I'm an artist. I'm a musician. I'm not someone you can put in a box.

Stop waiting for what you want, and start working what you have. This can turn your greatest frustration into your greatest potential innovation. If you'll do your part, God will begin to do what only He can do: He'll make your box bigger.

When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.

I wanted to be what I am. All my life. A musician and an actor.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Rumi is perhaps the greatest mystical poet who ever lived, one of the greatest poets of the Persian language. He was able to express practically all aspects of the spiritual life and our existential situation in the world today as human beings in beautiful Persian poetry.

Nick is an amazing musician. He's really focused.

We are indeed a nation of immigrants. People who choose to come to America have always been one of our greatest sources of national vitality. They keep our economy strong and our communities dynamic. They are some of our greatest patriots.

You can't bullet-point Trump's political beliefs because he doesn't have them. He's got various things he wants, needs, wants to accomplish, based on circumstances at the moment, not based on a philosophy. Now, there's a foundation. The foundation for Donald Trump is "Make America Great Again." It's the greatest place on earth and we're gonna build it back up and it's gonna be the greatest no matter what, compared to whoever, it's gonna be the greatest. So, I mean, you can say that. But that's not a political philosophy. That's an objective or a series of goals.

I'm a great songwriter, but I'm not the most talented musician.

I'm a musician because I love it and it's supposed to be fun.

Jay Ashby is simply a great musician!

I never pictured myself as a professional musician.

I never thought a career as a musician was possible.

The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.

But I needed to prove to everyone that I was a serious musician.

I have always wanted to become a musician and a singer.

Mose Allison is a beautiful musician.

All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.

I don't wave a flag for anything. I'm a musician.

As far as I am concerned, the greatest suffering is to feel alone, unwanted, unloved. The greatest suffering is also having no one, forgetting what an intimate, truly human relationship is, not knowing what it means to be loved, not having a family or friends.

I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing.

Vintage is my vocabulary... like the notes of a musician.

Of the laws of nature, on which the condition of man depends, that which is attended with the greatest number of consequences, is the necessity of labor for obtaining the means of subsistence, as well as the means of the greatest part of our pleasure.

To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.

A musician can get lost to what he is in the session busines as it was.

To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.

No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were written in a prison. The greatest thoughts of the greatest thinkers have all passed through fire. The greatest poets have "learned in suffering what they taught in song." In bonds Bunyan lived the allegory that he afterwards wrote, and we may thank Bedford Jail for the Pilgrim's Progress. Take comfort, afflicted Christian! When God is about to make pre-eminent use of a person, He put them in the fire.

I'm not a musician making words to go with my music.

I'd rather be a musician than a rockstar.

The greatest maxim of all is that children should be brought up as simply and in as domestic a way as possible, and that (not interfering with their lessons) they should be as much as possible with their parents, and learn to place the greatest confidence in them in all things.

I do love country music. And a real musician.

'The Golden Compass' became a bad experience because the studio didn't have faith in the strength of the ideas of the novel, which is ironic because it's one of the greatest fantasy novels ever written, if not the greatest, and they took the religion out of it and tried to turn it into a popcorn movie.

An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician.