Top 1200 Rock Musicians Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I couldn't get session work because most musicians hated my style.

Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.

Time is the main subject for any musicians, music writers, composers.

I've always said that musicians are the comics of my generations and comedians are the politicians of my generation.

I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each.

I'm big fans of all those musicians, B.B. King, Mick Jagger - they're all on my iPod.

All musicians and artists - we all got quirks that have to be put up with at certain times.

I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.

First, Poland has been again overrun by two of the great powers which held her in bondage for 150 years but were unable to quench the spirit of the Polish nation. The heroic defense of Warsaw shows that the soul of Poland is indestructible, and that she will rise again like a rock which may for a spell be submerged by a tidal wave but which remains a rock.

I play these [folk acoustic] concerts and I ask myself, 'Would you come see me tonight?' - and I'd have to answer truthfully, 'No, I wouldn't come. I'd rather be doin' something else, really I would. That something else is rock... The words are pictures, and the rock's gonna help me flesh out the colors of the pictures. (1965)

I love song writing, so I'm always happy to write for other musicians.

Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.

I am singing in an operatic voice for the public, to bring something more to Rock and Roll. Because in a Rock and Roll performance, the singer talks to the public whereas in Opera the singer only talks to a character, inside a story. The public sees this as a picture, I want to transport this picture into the room where the public is.

I am friends with the most amazing musicians that can do pop, rap, punk and jazz.

With lyrics for me, it's usually musically-based. It's not really poetry- or writer-based. It's rock-based. It doesn't mean that I'm aping rock lyrics, but I'm writing from a music standpoint. I'm thinking more of music heroes, if they're in my mind. Not William Blake or John Ashbury. Sometimes maybe I thought of him a little bit. Or Wallace Stevens. I don't even really fully understand either of them.

Well, remember that we were all members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.

The 1970s was probably the most exciting decade to be a teenager, from discovering Little Richard at the end of the 1960s to glam rock to punk rock to electro music. So much happened in that 10-year span. There were so many musical revolutions. Some were happening at the same time. You had disco going on behind punk. You had Michael Jackson. You had the Sex Pistols.

I have something for you," he said. He dug into his pocket and brought out something, which he pressed into her hand. It was a gray stone, slightly uneven, worn to smoothness in spots. "Huh," said Clary, turning it over in her fingers. "You know, when most girls say they want a big rock, they don't mean, you know, literally a big rock.

When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.

I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.

Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.

I'm going to get drunk and insult as many musicians from the 80's as is humanly possible.

The Internet has definitely opened doors and leveled the playing field for musicians.

Verbal communication about music is impossible except among musicians.

There's a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary.

One of my favorite guitar players and musicians is a guy named Jimmy Herring.

The older I get, the more I think birds are the best musicians on the planet.

All of these people kept on being professional musicians and composers in the strictest sense.

I surround myself with incredible musicians who inspire me to always do my best.

Jazz musicians have always tended to have cult followings, which is pretty wonderful.

Conducting is about communication. You don't play any notes, but you communicate with the musicians.

Some musicians are not great technicians, but they give you a rich point of view.

That really sums up the strange bluntness that a really prime German interview can have. They're really interested in your cultural velocity in this way that I don't think people in the United States even necessarily think about alternative-rock bands. So it's not like we're against regular rock. We're not like a battling army shaking our weapons against The Rolling Stones.

Painters can study the masters can't they? Musicians can hear Beethoven. What will filmmakers do?

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

Hopefully, I can stay around a lot of young musicians and feed off of them.

I used to have a lot of envy for those musicians who have been universally loved.

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.

It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.

When I moved to Los Angeles, right away I met all kinds of musicians.

Having played with other musicians, I don't even think The Beatles were that good.

And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.

Musicians more than most people are in the moment. That's the dual nature of that job.

I'm just lucky to have the type of friends and musicians and people dedicated to my music that I do.

I have to continue to make the older musicians proud and brush up on my skills.

Musicians are very mysterious and wonderful people to me; I don't know how they do it.

I think musicians naturally gravitate toward music that sounds real.

I'm in a funny position: I've been in one band in my life and that was with my brother. As incredible as that has been, I feel like I'm missing out a little bit on being in a real rock band - or how I imagine being in a real rock band to be. It's like being in a street gang: you all wear the same leather jacket or whatever.

The Musicians Hall of Fame is chosen by thousands of your peers. So it's the real thing.

I am getting to work with some good musicians, artistes, and composers.

I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young

I don't get starstruck by musicians anymore, but podcasts? I'm a total podcast groupie.

Musicians burn through more cash than the Federal Reserve.

I've been a music fan all my life, and you know the difference when the musicians care.

Sometimes, musicians worry too much about how beautifully they are playing.

The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.

We want MySpace users to connect with celebrities in the same way that they do with musicians.

Music truly heals, and I am so grateful to have learned that through Musicians on Call.

I wish I played guitar so I could start a band with great musicians.

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition." "And they rock, and they rock, through the sensual ageless ages on the depths of the seven seas, and through the salt they reel with drunken delight and in the tropics tremble they with love and roll with massive, strong desire, like gods.