Top 1200 Greatest Musician Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.

I'm not a good enough musician to like completely master something in a couple of days and turn it around.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well.

I have performed all over the world to packed audiences. I don't have to be a trained musician to prove my singing abilities to my critics.

The election of Obama will say as much about the American people as it does about Obama himself - that our Declaration of Independence means what it says in its opening lines, that being the world's greatest nation means that we offer the world's greatest opportunities.

The greatest demand is not to demand anything, and the greatest service of love is not to turn it into a business: "You kiss me, I'll bring flowers to you. I brought flowers to you, why didn't you kiss me?"-your American way.

Being a professional musician with Downhere for 11 years now, I feel completely at home on stage.

Michael Jordan is probably the greatest scorer to ever play in the game. But I may go as far to say Lebron James may be the the greatest player to ever play the game.

Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it.

I'm a weird, bald musician who makes records in his bedroom and lives in the Lower East Side.

Dude, if you want to be a great musician, you have to try heroin. You'll see. It's like being back in the womb.

I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils under which the Union is now laboring ... a conspiracy of the few against the equal rights of the many ...Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of evil, which can never produce any good.

I've always seen myself as a working musician but now there's no money in records for the artist at all, it's all in live performance.

Every musician knows your studio is like - it's a bubble for you. It's a personal space. This is where I work, where I create.

I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician.

Death is not the greatest tragedy in life. The greatest tragedy is what dies inside us while we live. We need not fear death. We need fear only that we may exist without having sensed something of the possibilities that lie within human existence.

I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.

Instead of going to college, I spent my time out on the road learning how to be a better musician.

I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn't trust your health to an electrician.

Difficult times are the greatest opportunities in disguise. When we face difficult times we have to put in determined work to get ourselves into joy. Difficult times are your greatest opportunity to practice yourself into joy!

I think that a musician is like a doctor, he's supposed to heal people and make them feel better.

My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a character.

The two endorsements I'm most proud of come from Isabel Wilkerson and Toni Morrison. The latter is the greatest American fiction writer of our time, and the former is on her way to being the greatest American nonfiction writer of our time.

Jazz is the greatest American art form and our greatest export. We don't pay attention to the youth of jazz, don't stoke the fires creatively for the youth coming up. I feel like jazz musicians became too much of purists - with Donald Byrd doing funk jazz in the '70s.

Socrates pointed out that we carry on as though death were the greatest of all calamities-yet, for all we know, it might be the greatest of all blessings. What are we going to call good? What are we going to call bad? Good or bad is never our choice, or even the issue.

One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if you want to have an impact on crime - that it's not a coincidence that you see the greatest amount of violent crime where you see the greatest amount of social dysfunction.

A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.

The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life; because that is the only reality, all else being merely the play of thought. On the other hand, such a course might just as well be called the greatest folly: for that which in the next moment exists no more, and vanishes utterly, like a dream, can never be worth a serious effort.

There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom.

I'm one of those controversial celebs or whatever you want to call it, but I am actually a musician - people forget this.

Now the greatest external good we should assume to be the thing which we offer as a tribute to the gods, and which is most coveted by men of high station, and is the prize awarded for the noblest deeds; and such a thing is honor, for honor is clearly the greatest of external goods.

I just get involved in things when people come to me: I'm not a musician-slash-activist, that's not the word.

I couldn't concentrate on music. So I made the choice to give up my career as a musician in the frontline to deal with the business.

I suppose ultimately I'm interested in music. I'm a musician. I'm not a gunslinger. That's the difference between what I do and what a lot of guitar heroes do.

As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music behind the notes.

You can expect nothing in being a musician, and you have to be just very thankful every time it goes positively for you.

The only thing I had in my mind [when I was 17 ] was that I was going to be a professional musician. So it was just the right environment.

The amount of exposure you get in India as a musician in Bollywood is so much better than what one gets independently.

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.

I model a lot and I'm very fortunate and blessed to be able to do as many partnerships I do for an underground musician such as myself.

I just make videos and stuff. There's not much more to it than that. I'm a musician trying to express myself.

I don't come from a musical family at all, but I realized early on I was a musician. I started begging for a piano when I was 6 years old.

I've made my pact with the Lord for the next lifetime. I would love to be a first-class musician. A super one.

To be equitable, economic growth has to be sustainable. To be sustainable, economic growth has in turn to be all-inclusive. All-inclusive is no longer the greatest good of the greatest number. It is actually 'Sarvodaya' or the 'rise of all'. This Mahatma Gandhi saw as essential to Satyagraha itself.

I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald's. Ray had a vision of the most commonplace thing - a hamburger and fries to go - but to him it was just the greatest thing ever, and he was going to make it the greatest thing ever for everybody else, and he did.

Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to say in any other language. If we do not want these things to remain dead treasures, we must do our utmost to make the greatest possible number of people understand their idiom.

I started as a jazz musician, not a singer, then I became a rock 'n' roll artist with Aphrodite's Child.

I was pretty scared of the idea as a younger person of being a musician on the road. It didn't occur to me as a possibility.

I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.

Triple H is a former bodybuilder. He's all about bodies. He thought that Hulk Hogan was the greatest wrestler in the world. They think Ultimate Warrior was the greatest wrestler in the world because that's what they're attracted to, but he's not really a wrestling fan like I grew up. I was a wrestling fan.

The creative process for a musician is very different than for a filmmaker. I have an idea, and I can pretty much execute it.

But when I discovered music, I knew that that's what I wanted to do in my life and I just jumped in all the way and pursued my dreams as a musician.

The hardest thing for a musician to learn is how to play WITH people. That's what made the Basie rhythm section.

I'm not more than a musician that enjoys what he does and a Colombian that dreams and fights for peace in his country.

My father was a steelworker who'd come over from Abruzzi, in Italy. He played in the band and he encouraged me to be a musician.

Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what.

Africa has lost its dream, and when people don't have a dream and don't pursue it, they flounder. People are shocked that I would move to Africa. But I say the place of greatest need is the place of greatest opportunity.

It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.

I started out with the guitar and was a studio musician back in the 50s, and then got shot in my finger.

I am a musician, a songwriter, music fan. I live in New York City and I love my job.