Top 1200 Rock Musicians Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Good music is made with the help of many musicians who express their joy in the swaras.

I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did.

There are a lot of classical musicians in my family, so I grew up with that being kind of normal.

My father had a phenomenal knowledge of music; my mom's family were all musicians.

A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?

All of the musicians when I was young used to always say you had to tell a story when you're a musician.

Creating sounds together with other musicians is something I've always liked doing.

On the night Test faced the Great One, this is what he'll see... twelve sharpshooters stinging, eleven eyebrows raising, ten spines a'bustin, nine noggins knocking, eight kicks a'kicking, seven punches punching, six suplexes smashing, five seconds of the people chanting The Rock's name... four Rock Bottoms, three People's Elbows, on your two buckteeth, and an ass-kicking all over New Orleans!

I remember the first time I was booked into a jazz club. I was scared to death. I'm not a jazz artist. So I got to the club and spotted this big poster saying, 'Richie Havens, folk jazz artist.' Then I'd go to a rock club and I'm billed as a 'folk rock performer' and in the blues clubs I'd be a 'folk blues entertainer.'

I've been involved in a lot of different kinds of projects. I've been on straight hip hop tours. I've been on underground rock tours. I've been on multimillion selling rock shows. I've been in the jam band thing, and both commercial and underground hip hop. Very few people listen to one kind of music.

Musicians should understand that it is not just about creating one hit but to sustain it at the top.

There are many styles of standup, but the comedians I like are people like Dick Gregory and Richard Pryor. Because Richard Pryor told the truth. Chris Rock. I love Chris Rock. He's funny, but he's also poignant. He's not there just to make people laugh; he's there to make people wake up, too.

Composers and musicians have always starved and, as this is a sentimental country, we think the tradition should be continued.

It's my fault in many cases because I don't initiate the contact to talk with a lot of other musicians.

Communicating with musicians is really interesting because everyone has their quirks and their strengths and their weaknesses.

My second Christian name is John. Good solid bourgeois Christian name, like my first name, Peter, a rock. Minerals. Build on rock, rocks, uranium. Peter and John were two of the twelve apostles - arguable the two most significant. Were my parents hedging their bets?

I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference." (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)

The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.

The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.

It's hard to find other musicians that push you to go somewhere new all the time.

In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.

The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape.

Erroll Garner is one of the few musicians I believe has a sense of humor in his music.

Musicians tell me, if what I'm doing is right, they should never have gone to school.

I can't even imagine how it must be to be a solo artist playing with session musicians.

I'm always pulling and really feeding off of my inspirations. I think most musicians do.

There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.

Musicians have been political literally since people were writing songs.

A lot of people assume that musicians are comrades by nature. It's cutthroat like anything else.

We musicians often get inspiration from films and books or photographs, not only by music.

I like live musicians and personally orchestrate about 80 to 90% of all my scores.

I had to get a driver's license and drive to St. Louis to find the punk-rock scene that was happening there. And there was a punk-rock scene. It was sweet. It was real. It was like everywhere else in the county. It was a handful of people who were feeling the same pull, and, of course, it was like the Island of Misfit Toys in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer [1964]. Just the freaks, the fags, the fat girls, the unbelievable eccentrics .

There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away.

I'm all in favor of getting grants for musicians. Or any other good brand of Scotch.

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.

Stereotyping and generating brands around musicians I think contributes to their eventual demise.

And a lot of the technique and the little T-Bone phrases that define his style, Chuck Berry, when he rearranged the beat, they became rock 'n roll guitar licks. So in essence, T-Bone was not only the first electric blues guitar player, but he was the first electric rock 'n roll guitar player, really.

Rod's always been a keen sportsman, so he didn't live as excessive a life as some musicians.

What matters is performances, regardless of what the name is, whether it's The Rock - which is my nickname and people call me that all the time - it's no big deal. So, whether it's The Rock or Dwayne Johnson, in terms of being recognised I just think that the goal is to be recognised as a good actor. I don't put much thought or weight into the name, or the name change, or what it is, or what does it mean? It's just a nickname.

When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the staging.

I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians.

Most of the musicians I play with - aside from the form and structure of the music - the interpretation is up to them.

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

It is just that heavy metal musicians write in minor keys, and when you do that, you frighten people.

Oberst is one of those musicians that some people hate in a visceral, biological way.

The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.

When we started Poco, we were too country for rock, and we were too rock for country.

Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians.

The musicians I really looked up to as a kid were the ones who could play everything.

I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.

Any time having international interviews is a language barrier, you don't know how much you need to simplify what you're saying for it not to be damaged in translation. But culturally, there are some interesting phenomena. I get the feeling that the way rock music gets described in Germany, it is all like Rolling Stone circa 1975, taken to the 10th power. If you're a rock musician, you're part of the counterculture. Your music is like a critique of everything that is wrong with America.

I like to work with different musicians and producers to change the feels of every release.

A lot of the way I sing is playing off other musicians. It's what I love to do the most.

I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts.

It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet.

Don't get me wrong, I've seen some very excellent women musicians.

You must remember I grew up around music. Three of my family were musicians.

I'm envious of writers and musicians. I think it must be so difficult. Not just the frustration, but the discipline.

I'm all about inspiring young musicians to get out there and express themselves through music.