Quotes and Sayings About Musician
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I'm a self-taught musician so how I read music is kind of very weak and I kind of read my own version of tablature, I write my own crappy reminders on what I'm playing.
-- Jason Mraz -
Never assume that simply having a gun makes you a marksman. You are no more armed because you are wearing a pistol than you are a musician because you own a guitar.
-- Jeff Cooper -
The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.
-- Jennifer Lopez -
I have a buddy of mine who's a musician, and I play guitar and sing quite a bit with him.
-- Jensen Ackles -
One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound.
-- Jerry Cantrell -
As a musician, I have always refrained from criticizing another artist.
-- Jill Sobule -
Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with 'Stairway to Heaven.'
-- Jimmy Page -
I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.
-- Joan Armatrading -
Making music, if youre a real musician, you carry on, regardless in this world.
-- Joe Cocker -
The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy a beer.
-- Joe Elliott -
Music is not everything in life. If a young musician looks at it that way, then he can just play his instrument like putting a nail into a wall.
-- Joe Zawinul -
So I cradle this average violin that knows Only forgotten showtunes, but argues The possibility of free declamation anchored To a dull refrain....
-- John Ashbery -
The main thing a musician would like to do is to give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe.
-- John Coltrane -
All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.
-- John Coltrane -
The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.
-- John Drinkwater -
Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.
-- John Lee Hooker -
To me, as a musician, there aren't any boundaries genre-wise as far as what can you listen to to inspire you.
-- John Legend -
I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not.
-- John Lennon -
I never really thought about becoming a professional musician.
-- John Mayall -
Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.
-- John Perry Barlow -
Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business.
-- John Perry Barlow -
There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience!
-- John Philip Sousa -
Playing is much, much harder than composing in my opinion, becoming a player. If you want to be a player for all your life either you decide not to do it professionally and just enjoy it and just do it every weekend, but if you want to be a professional musician- hardest thing I could imagine and I really wasn't capable of doing it.
-- John Powell -
...The key to playing with any group is you listen all the time and you listen more than you play.
-- John Scofield -
I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians.
-- John Sebastian -
In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.
-- John Sebastian -
I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio.
-- John Tesh -
Musicians are very mysterious and wonderful people to me; I don't know how they do it.
-- John Updike