Quotes and Sayings About Musician
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As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music behind the notes.
-- Edward Gardner -
There's a responsibility as a musician to do the music that you want to hear.
-- El-P -
I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it's going to happen, but as musicians I think we've got to step up and say 'come on'.
-- Elton John -
I think that's the graveyard of musicians, playing cabaret. I think I'd rather be dead than work in cabaret. It's just so depressing.
-- Elton John -
I guess every musician looks forward to a point where they can just kind of make an album that truly is like a nice art album.
-- Emma Stone -
Taylor is a musician who does things under her own name and tells her own stories-her songs and her albums are her.
-- Emma Stone -
We all feel love, and that might sound kind of corny, but I really feel that's what joins musicians together around the world.
-- Enrique Iglesias -
I find it hard to work with other musicians because I know from experience that when they play, they play with their feeling, and that restricts me because I know I want to play in my own particular way.
-- Enya -
I've sort of had an investigatory relationship with being a musician. I really wasn't sure what I wanted to do. I felt I had had my run - I had done Jane's and I wasn't particularly interested in music anymore.
-- Eric Avery -
I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn't especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my way back to being interested in music through computers.
-- Eric Avery -
In the day-to-day life of a traveling musician, it's easy to miss so many details. The world goes by at high-speed; it will take your breath away.
-- Eric Burdon -
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest.
-- Erik Satie -
The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.
-- Erykah Badu -
All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, 'Isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music?
-- Eubie Blake -
Painters can study the masters can't they? Musicians can hear Beethoven. What will filmmakers do?
-- Eva Marie Saint -
You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.
-- Eve Arnold -
Recording sessions were stimulating to photograph, because everything was in motion: the subject, the musicians, the technicians and the photographer. You needed fast reflexes to keep up with moving targets, and sensitivity and skill to get the pictures while keeping out of the performers' eyeline so as not to break their concentration.
-- Eve Arnold -
I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf.
-- Evelyn Glennie -
I didn't decide to become a musician until the age of 15, which is quite late.
-- Evelyn Glennie -
Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.
-- Evelyn Glennie -
And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that.
-- Evelyn Glennie -
I am a Jew, Israel is a Jewish state. . . . Israel’s case is my case, Israel’s enemies are my enemies, and I do not want to be spared the troubles which Israeli musicians encounter when they represent the Jewish state beyond its borders.
-- Evgeny Kissin -
I know perfectly well that no musician can make his thoughts or his talents different to what Heaven has made them; but I also know that if Heaven had given him good ones, he must also be able to develop them properly.
-- Felix Mendelssohn -
The death of young musicians isn’t something to romanticize
-- Frances Bean Cobain -
I don't play for the guitarists in the audience. I play for the musicians.
-- Frank Gambale -
Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!
-- Frank Iero -
I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician.
-- Frankie Avalon -
We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm.
-- Franz Liszt -
As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation.
-- Franz Liszt -
You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the things they are discovering every time, as if it was the first time.
-- Fred Frith