Musician Quotes

As a musician, my job is incredibly easy, and it’s a good one, but I’ve got to work at it occasionally.

Musicians don’t respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good.

We don’t work like the best basketball player and the best musician and so on. Science is a collective effort.

A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.

The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest jazz musicians will be celebrated, and where people will come to learn about jazz, something to which my brother devoted his lifes work.

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?

I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.

I’m on my feet and I’m doing what I love to do, and I’m in a profession, as a musician, where we can go on for as long as we can go on.

In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.