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Musicians Quotes

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

– Hazel Scott

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

– Glenn Miller

The record company started as an adjunct to that, to give young composers their first recorded performances; to give young musicians their first debut on a recording. These are all things that big record companies would never touch because there is no money in it!

– Gunther Schuller

For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.

– Haruki Murakami

I don’t know if you have ever seen the Woody Allen film ‘Annie Hall,’ but it is, in a way, to Los Angeles and ‘Hollywood’ what ‘This Is Spinal Tap’ is to many musicians.

– Henry Rollins

We have been working with Habitat for Humanity and we have built eighty homes, 80% of which are being lived in by New Orleans’ musicians. It is called the Musicians’ Village and at the center is the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music.

– Harry Connick, Jr.

There are a lot better musicians than me out there that just haven’t had the luck to fall into everything like I have.

– Glenn Tipton

It was about working with other musicians, but more than that it’s about exploring musical areas that you could never do with the band you’re in, in my case Judas Priest. You could tackle musical areas and lyrical areas that wouldn’t be appropriate for Priest.

– Glenn Tipton

A lot of my friends are struggling musicians. Being a struggling actor, it’s just frustrating because you’re not allowed to do what you want to do.

– Gina Gershon

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

– Henry Rollins

That’s one thing the musicians don’t remember: you don’t choose your demographic – they choose you.

– Halsey

I used to go to Bourbon Street when I was a kid and there would be club after club after club of people who were around when the music started. I mean these are legendary, maybe not so well known, but legendary musicians.

– Harry Connick, Jr.

Lou Reed’s music has been in the lives of millions of people all over the world for decades. He had a truly universal presence and was respected by musicians across all genres.

– Henry Rollins

So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary.

– Gunther Schuller

What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting.

– Herbie Mann

Selfishly, I make music for me. I like to make music. I like looking for songs. I like working with interesting musicians. I like producing records. It’s something I will always do.

– Herb Alpert

All the people I hung out with were musicians.

– Hunter Hayes

Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.

– Henry Rollins

If you look at the way people behave at shows, icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship.

– Grimes

After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this fusion of classical and jazz.

– Gunther Schuller

Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.

– Henry Rollins

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

– John Legend

I ultimately do still feel like an outsider, and I do feel, actually, I’m more in the world of music because of how much I participate with musicians – in all aspects, not just clothes.

– Jeremy Scott

It’s good to be in a position to know that I’ve inspired musicians, from what I’ve learned to lay down personally, and collectively with Led Zeppelin.

– Jimmy Page

I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky, electronic sounds, while the musicians in the band were more rock oriented. This I suppose created the sound we know as Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

– Holly Johnson

If I’m in the studio, I’m completely on music. I try to go to that place and that’s the toughest thing for me to do. When I’m with other musicians, sometimes I go back to, almost like, childhood, because that’s what I always wanted to be.

– Jamie Foxx

The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers – just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians – by right of birth. Nothing is more natural, therefore, than to perceive them applying their audacious ingenuity to the science of gunnery.

– Jules Verne

‘Entertainment Tonight’ would send me out to do interviews with musicians like Sting and Coldplay, and I was able to watch how they plan their shows. The late Jerry Garcia of Grateful Dead always had a game plan, but he also was flexible if he had to change something at the last minute.

– John Tesh

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

– Idina Menzel

Criticism is always hard to take – we musicians are sensitive. It’s always hard when someone says something negative – but you try to learn to just let it roll off and not worry about it.

– Joshua Bell

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