Top 1200 Rock Musicians Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.

As musicians, we have one of the greatest tools of bringing people together in music.

My family were all musicians. I really wasn't interested in school or anything.

To be up on stage and interacting with musicians, that was a huge epiphany for me.

We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it.

The battle over Napster has divided musicians and industry officials.

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.

I think all musicians should understand that you have chosen not to be a soldier but a musician.

Rock stars generally don't last in the Senate, starting with John Kennedy. Too much work, too slow, too little juice. Getting something accomplished takes a remarkable amount of tedious work. Rock stars who become senators either run for something else or retire on the job. They certainly don't make a mark.

Commercial record has never interested me. It's amazing I was in a band like The Police that had such phenomenal commercial success. Part of what made The Police what it was was that we didn't all come in with obvious mainstream musical tastes. We were a rock band and somehow we had to make rock music, but it was informed by a lot of things outside of the mainstream for sure.

I love the idea of having a beer with a lot of the musicians I admire.

If John Lennon is deported, I'm leaving too...with my musicians..and my marijuana.

What we should be doing as musicians is trying to bring people together.

Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners.

Before I started doing '30 Rock', I did about 25 movies. I'd always been doing stand-up every night, and then I would do, like, two to four movies a year. So I really liked doing that, and I want to get back to that, but because of the time commitment to '30 Rock', there's not much time to do that stuff.

Having live musicians in a comedy show adds a frisson.

We're serious musicians. And we dont want our shows to be circuses.

They tell us "Rock'n'roll is the devil's music." Well, let's say we know that rock is the devil's music, and we know that it is, for sure ... At least he f-kin' jams! If it's a choice between eternal Hell and good tunes, and eternal Heaven and New Kids on the f-kin' Block ... I'm gonna be surfin' on the lake of fire, rockin' out.

Sometimes the simplest forms of music are the hardest to play. Especially for musicians that are accomplished.

Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style.

I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history.

You don't find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn't mean to say you can't be really good.

A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren't as smart as me.

musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.

Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.

I'm fortunate enough to socialize with some of the greatest musicians around.

And it's a lot harder to hide with four musicians than it is with eight.

I come from a family of musicians. Even the sewing machine is a Singer.

Musicians communicate in other ways. That's just something you rely on.

A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.

When I was a kid, I played the piano for six years, and all my family are musicians.

Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.

I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock songs, metal songs, heavy metal songs, really heavy songs I love writing on an acoustic because I can hear what every string is doing; the vibrations haven't been combined in a collision of distortion or effects yet.

The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.

Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world.

We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

Musicians ultimately are who they are, they aren't actors, so as a clipmaker you have a responsibility to protect them.

Most of my friends in London are musicians, but the ones in Scotland have proper jobs.

How many times can a rock star go over the top on drugs? How many times can a rock star be unfaithful to his old lady? It is really fu**ing boring, and that is what they do over and over and over. They just print the same sh*t.

As far as artists and musicians, they don't retire. They might tour less.

Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.

Strange people like chefs, musicians, and politicians affect me.

Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.

I sing, and the musicians kind of fit things around me.

I want musicians to be looked at as people that are not just doing one thing.

Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.

It's neat to hear a new generation of musicians come up.

I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock songs, metal songs, heavy metal songs, really heavy songs... I love writing on an acoustic because I can hear what every string is doing; the vibrations haven't been combined in a collision of distortion or effects yet.

Here's what I'm going to have to say to all of you. If some of you have demons in your head who talk to you in profanity or whatever, don't let your demon shoot down your rock music, don't let your demon keep you off the joy bus. So like I say, Rock music pays off.

Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general.

I like rock and roll t-shirts, tight jeans, and sneakers or boots. Really just laid back, sort of rock and roll. I'm a sneaker person. I don't really like to wear high heels. I'm always really paranoid when I'm on stage playing guitar that I'm going to trip over one of the cords when I'm prancing around so I have on wedges or shoes that are not too high.

Musicians exist independent of any of the marketing terms or the categorization.

I think musicians should stay off television generally.

I don't feel like that many musicians are competitive with each other.

On 'Hairless Toys,' I've tried to create an ambiguous character to go with an ambiguous record. She's anything but rock n' roll - she's so not rock n' roll that, in a twisted way, she's kind of radical. She's like someone from my memory, almost like my mother, and she's lost in some space-time between the 1960s and the late '80s.

Jazz musicians are the coolest people on the planet. Can I have some cool?

In ancient times the greatest of the prophets were great musicians.

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.

Um, musicians are funnier you know, than actors on the whole.

It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll. I've listened to 'Ziggy Stardust' as much as any rock n' roll fan - I don't really know what it's about, but it sure is fun to think about David Bowie as this mad creation.