Musician Quotes

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.

Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.

You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.

Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.

If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.

When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they’re still here and passing it on to others.

When you hear the melodic structures of what classical musicians put together and you compare it to that of a rock & roll record, there’s a hell of a long way rock & roll has to go.

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.

People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.

Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.