Top 1200 Greatest Musician Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

My intensity is my greatest strength. It's also my greatest weakness.

I did, I was in Europe a lot. I would say, mid 20s to late 30s. Less so in the last ten or twelve years. Based on some political stuff and other things, I think I'm not the only musician, the only American jazz musician that's not going to Europe quite as much. I think we're seen a little differently in the world, unfortunately, than we were pre-Iraq invasion and things like that.

Stop waiting for what you want, and start working what you've got. Your greatest limitation is God's greatest opportunity.

One of the greatest listeners I know is Bob Tishman. That has probably had the greatest impact on my life than any other thing.

To create a new business that makes money, and more significantly, employs others, and more significantly, gives a product to a customer that improves their life, is our greatest challenge, our greatest opportunity, and the greatest gift, far greater than any charity that we can give our fellow person.

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault.

The economic dependence of women is perhaps the greatest injustice that has been done to us, and has worked the greatest injury to the race.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.

Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.

Many jazz musicians affect a misunderstood-genius air when they play, which alienates the audience and breaks down the communications of the music. A musician's responsibility is to get as much of his art across as possible. Musicians used to be kept when only the rich could afford art, but now practically everyone can afford radios, stereo equipment, concert tickets, etc. A musician must learn to communicate to survive.

My daughter is my greatest gift and, not to be corny, but my greatest teacher.

It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.

I don't think there's such a thing as the greatest of all time or the greatest in the world.

The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.

Our philosophy at 8VC is that many of the companies that present the greatest economic opportunities also create the greatest value for society.

The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves.

Genius, even, as it is the greatest good, is he greatest harm.

I think the greatest mistakes have been my greatest lessons.

The form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest number of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best.

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

Apart from my children, spending time with refugees was the greatest gift... the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.

Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.

Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.

Life is our greatest possession and love its greatest affirmation.

To me, kids are the greatest audience and the greatest critics in the world.

Prayer is the greatest force that we can wield. It is the greatest talent which God has granted us. He has given it to every Christian.

We have the greatest Hall of all the Halls. And to be able to join these men, on this stage, in football heaven is the greatest day of my life.

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.

We can reach our world, if we will. The greatest lack today is not people or funds. The greatest need is prayer.

I have believed for many years that Oscar Peterson is not only the greatest pianist in jazz today, but the greatest it has ever known.

The greatest rewards come only from the greatest commitment.

Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest

I'm very confident I'm one of the best to ever play the game, but once you talk about the greatest, how can you define greatest?

Fedor is the greatest, no doubt. For me, in a matter of admiration, he is the greatest of all time. He is a heavyweight who beat everybody. He certainly was 'The Baddest Man on the Planet.'

Gratitude is the greatest prayer. Thank you is the greatest mantra.

I can combine the greatest love with the greatest opposition to wrong.

The greatest Marxist writer of the twentieth century, paradoxically, is also one of the greatest examples of the independence of the human spirit from its material limitations.

There are cases in which the greatest daring is the greatest wisdom.

Where conflicting interests must be reconciled, the question shall always be answered from the standpoint of the greatest good of the greatest number in the long run.

Ego is certainly there in many of the greatest and most dizzying tales of success - but it's there in some of the greatest stories of failure and self-implosion as well.

We are trying to discover where this approach could have the greatest possibility of large-scale impact. We have to choose wisely and see where there is greatest interest and need.

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

I just give lip service to being the greatest. He was the greatest.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker.

Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned.

Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?

Out of my greatest dispair, was to come my greatest gift.

Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.

For, after all, in science one achieves the greatest impact (and often the greatest headlines) not by going along with the herd, but by bucking against it.

This is the greatest lesson a child can learn. It is the greatest lesson anyone can learn. It has been the greatest lesson I have learned: if you persevere, stick w/it, work @ it, you have a real opportunity to achieve something. Sure, there will be storms along the way. And you might not reach your goal right away. But if you do your best and keep a true compass, you'll get there.

The greatest miracle of the Internet is that it exists - the second greatest is that it persists.

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

I played the vina until my heart turned into the same instrument. Then I offered this instrument to the Divine Musician, the only muscian existing. Since then I have become His flute, and when He chooses He plays His music. The people give me credit for this music which, in reality, is not due to me, but to the Musician who plays his own instrument.

Serena Williams is the greatest tennis player of all time, the greatest female athlete of all time, the greatest athlete of all time.

We're all on a journey - each one of us. And if we can be sensitive to the person who happens to be our neighbor, that, to me, is the greatest challenge as well as the greatest pleasure.