Top 1200 Greatest Musician Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

The greatest of all miracles is that we need not be tomorrow what we are today. The greatest of all insights is that we cannot be tomorrow what we do not do today. That is why today matters.

We've got the greatest Premier League, greatest domestic competition in the world but the downside of that is we've got fewer and fewer English players playing in that league.

The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

For me, the Mount Rushmore of greats would be Ric Flair, Dusty Rhodes, Hulk Hogan, Bruno Sammartino or Lou Thesz. You can do either one of them in that fourth spot. But I think Ric Flair is the greatest of all time. He's the greatest I've ever seen... on the mic and in the ring.

Obviously, Gaga's one of the greatest music visionaries of our time, and Beyonce is one of the greatest visions of our time. She is a music visionary, too.

Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.

When we find ouselves in some grave danger we must not lose courage but firmly trust in God, for where there is the greatest danger, there is also the greatest help from Him who wants to be called our 'Help' in times of peace and in times of tribulation.

For this fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown; since no one knows whether death, which they in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

I'm a singer. I'm a musician. I'm a writer. Maybe - I don't know - I couldn't give a child what it needed.

Making music, if youre a real musician, you carry on, regardless in this world.

Your greatest strength can be your greatest weakness.

Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.

Fear is your greatest obstacle - so question your fear. If it does not serve your greatest life then do not make it your master.

My father was a musician and wanted me to study piano. I had no interest.

A young musician needs a powerful laptop and a good analogue synthesiser.

I've always said I've wanted to be around forever. I never wanted to be the latest, greatest thing. I want to be like Willie Nelson - touring when I'm 70. To do that, you can't be the latest, greatest thing because those things fizzle out.

As a musician, my job is incredibly easy, and it's a good one, but I've got to work at it occasionally.

I think one of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.

Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.

I think the greatest truths, the ones that you find in every culture that has any sort of history of reflection of writing, the greatest truth is that there's nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so. That's the way Shakespeare put it. But you get basically the same idea from Buddha, from the Bhagavad Gita in India, and from the Stoics in ancient Greece and Rome.

Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs and bring about my interpretation of them.

I can sing, but I consider myself a bass player. I'm, you know, a musician first.

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.

There's more to being a musician than just making music.

Love, the supreme musician, is always playing in our souls

It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.

I was also very lucky to be a teammate of two of the greatest players to have ever played the game. I learned very early on by playing for Frank Robinson and with Henry Aaron that even the greatest players in the game were just one of the guys.

No matter what your work today, if it is worth while at all - time to plan it out, time to do it well, and time to finish it, is your day's greatest gift and your greatest job.

Adam and Eve - and especially Eve - are victims of the greatest character assassination the world has ever known. Eve is not secondary. Eve, if anything, is the great initiator in the story. She's the first independent woman. For me, rediscovering that Eve was the greatest bad**s women of all time was a revelation.

The more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become.

It is my greatest wish to enable our people to live with nothing to envy at the earliest possible date, and it is my greatest pleasure to work energetically, sharing my joys and sorrows with our people, on the road of translating my wish into reality.

One of the greatest gifts to mankind is laughter, and one of the greatest gifts to laughter is Lucille Ball. God has her now but thanks to television, we'll have her forever.

You can always boil down the life of a musician to touring, playing, and writing.

I want to be the greatest player who has ever been at my position, the greatest player who has ever played.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.

What greater delight and wonder can there be than to leave the straight lines of personality and deviate into these footpaths that lead beneath brambles and thick tree trunks into the heart of the forest where live those wild beasts, our fellow men? That is true: to escape is the greatest of pleasures; street haunting in winter the greatest of adventures.

Our greatest strengths are our greatest weaknesses.

As I grow older, I just want to be a better musician, to play more.

U.S.A. greatest country in world. Sheikie-baby live in the America. I live in Atlanta, the L.A. and the New York City - greatest city in the world.

I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman.

[Louis Armstrong] was the only musician who ever lived, who can't be replaced by someone.

The longer you've been acting, normally, the better you are at it. As a musician, it doesn't work like that.

As long as I'm still growing as a musician, it keeps me inspired.

I think every touring musician sacrifices aspects of their life to do it.

As I grew in confidence, I was able to come out and say that I'm a musician.

Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

I'm a musician and I'm really blessed, because in my life if I can hold the sticks, I can play.

I really wanted to be a musician, but it turned out I had no sense of time.

What I learned from my kids is that the greatest joy in life is not from material trappings, power, or visibility. The greatest joy comes from your kids. Nothing is even close to my kids in terms of bringing me joy.

Burzum was never my choice of life. I didn't even want to become a musician.

The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.

Whatever I do, I do with the greatest love that I have in me. Try this, and you will see that you do not become fatigued at all. Love is one of the greatest stimulants to the will. Under the influence of love the will can do almost anything.

Our greatest need is not to try harder. Our greatest need is a new heart.

I feel very honored to be playing with Bill Pierce. He's such a great musician.

I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.

I would have to say the novel 'War and Peace' influenced me more than any other book. This greatest of novels demonstrated to me the enormous power of literature and fired me up with a desire to become a writer, to participate in what I considered then to be the greatest of all endeavors.

Thyagaraja was not a professional musician. He did not sing for situations. He was music himself.

If you are alive and healty, you must know that this is your greatest success and your greatest chance in life! Celebrate this success with all your heart, with all your gratitude!

If I wasn't a musician, I'd take up the law. They are the rottenest, wealthiest people in America.