Quotes by Musician One of the great things about being in a band is that you meet so many other musicians who will turn you on to stuff you would never have otherwise found out about. Alasdair MacLean great-things musician Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man. Albert Schweitzer musician doe men The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me. Alberta Hunter musician want play I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu musician film reason That was a very natural process because as I was creating the animatic I added music clips as reference of the kind of music I wanted in the film. These were from musicians like NanĂ¡ Vasconcelos and Barbatuques, the body percussion group. Alex Abreu creating groups musician I want to change and try new ideas - allowing your sonic identity to evolve in your music and not being afraid of that. You see musicians hit upon something that works, and then go, "Let's keep doing that for 10 years." And that idea kind of terrifies me a little bit. It becomes like a day job then. Alex Kapranos musician identity trying I hate saying I'm a new musician, because I've been doing this forever, but they like to put new musicians on a lot of weird bills. Alex Winston musician hate forever I grew up listening to a lot of that stuff, Motown and Stooges. But also early rock-and-roll like Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Elvis Presley. I feel like as I grew older, I've been working with different musicians, people that have are constantly showing me different things. Alex Winston musician listening people One day, a musician asked me what I did. When I told him I was to be a businessman, he laughed and said, You are not a businessman. Sometimes all it takes is one person to put an important thought in your head, and he did. Alexander Hanson musician one-day important Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev can no longer attend concerts by his favorite group Deep Purple without having to fear that the musicians will wear T-shirts with Pussy Riot written on them. Alexei Navalny pussy purple musician I'm a compulsive musician, but it's also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else. Alexis Korner bloody musician way Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it. Alexis Korner musician musical movement To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life. Algernon Charles Swinburne musician greatness poet With mimicry, with praises, with echoes, or with answers, the poets have all but outsung the bell. The inarticulate bell has found too much interpretation, too many rhymes professing to close with her inaccessible utterance, and to agree with her remote tongue. The bell, like the bird, is a musician pestered with literature. Alice Meynell echoes musician bird I personally feel that acting is not totally different from singing and being a musician. Alicia Keys musician singing acting I don't know where I would be without music. Even if I wasn't a musician, I think music is God. In a lot of ways, it's my saving grave. It's been my religion since I was a little kid. Allie Gonino musician kids thinking The best musicians answer something in you when you don't even know the question. Allison Pearson musician answers knows One of the best things about Kickstarter and crowdfunding and the collapse of the music business is a lot of artists like me have been forced to face our own weird mess about ourselves and what we thought it meant to become musicians. Amanda Palmer musician artist faces I want to live in a world where Miley (or any female musician) can twerk wildly at 20, wear a full-cover floral hippie mumu at 37, show up at 47 in see-through latex, and pose semi-naked, like Keith & co, on the cover of Rolling Stone at 57 and be APPLAUDED for being so comfortable with her body. Amanda Palmer rolling musician hippie I think I've always felt as a band and as a musician and a music business person, I've always felt like an outsider, period. Amanda Palmer musician band thinking «1234567891011»