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Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. -- Louis Armstrong
Musicians have always adopted Macs. -- Trent Reznor
Musicians are in-season all the time. -- John Legend
Musicians are the architects of heaven. -- Bobby McFerrin
Musicians own music because music owns them. -- Virgil Thomson
Musicians are not so concerned with language. -- Ry Cooder
Musicians are artists, as silence is their canvas. -- Mark Hewer
Musicians burn through more cash than the Federal Reserve. -- Shawn Amos
Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians. -- Henry Rollins
Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking. -- Ry Cooder
Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die. -- Eddie Van Halen
People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose. -- Carlos Santana
Musicians communicate in other ways. That's just something you rely on. -- Ry Cooder
Musicians exist independent of any of the marketing terms or the categorization. -- Dwight Yoakam
Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts. -- Billy Joel
Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight. -- John Lee Hooker
Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world. -- Pattie Boyd
Musicians wake up and create a more loving community by creating heavier music. -- Cass McCombs
Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet. -- Chico Hamilton
Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute. -- Keith Jarrett
Painters can study the masters can't they? Musicians can hear Beethoven. What will filmmakers do? -- Eva Marie Saint
Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier. -- Tommy Chong
Musicians tell me, if what I'm doing is right, they should never have gone to school. -- Ornette Coleman
Musicians more than most people are in the moment. That's the dual nature of that job. -- Gail Zappa
Musicians are very mysterious and wonderful people to me; I don't know how they do it. -- John Updike
Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so. -- Billy Joel
Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes. -- Dodie Smith
Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment. -- Dimebag Darrell
Musicians have made incredible contributions to the conservation and environmental movement and continue to do so, more than ever. -- Paul Watson
Musicians playing together, it's a conversation, and ideally I want our conversation to be really intriguing and interesting and beautiful. -- Chris Robinson
Musicians are so well covered in the press, it would be great to see more outspoken practitioners of green life. -- Jason Mraz
Musicians can look forward to playing with the best musicians that ever played. They can even have their own band! -- David Berg
Musicians ultimately are who they are, they aren't actors, so as a clipmaker you have a responsibility to protect them. -- Adria Petty
Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general. -- Wynton Marsalis
Musicians talk of nothing but money and jobs. Give me businessmen every time. They really are interested in music and art -- Jean Sibelius
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
The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time. -- Dionne Warwick
Musicians have to do what they do and express it musically. All the blah blah blah will get lost in the dialogue. -- Carlos Alomar
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Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest. -- Kinky Friedman
Ideally the point of music is community, not the player. Musicians are simply channels to link the audience to the music and to each other. -- Trey Anastasio
Musicians are like politicians. They're the last people who should be making music, just like politicians are the last people who should be running things. -- Nigel Godrich
Writing is an art like other arts. Dancers don't dance every once in a while. Musicians don't stop practicing. They are dedicated to what they do. -- Theodora Goss
When a street musician lowered his violin to inquire, 'Hey lovely, what you got there?' she said, 'Musicians who ask questions,' and kept on dragging. -- Laini Taylor
All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds. -- Marc Bolan
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master. -- Duke Ellington
As far as artists and musicians, they don't retire. They might tour less. -- James Hetfield
Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand. -- Billy Joel
I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players. -- David Bowie
I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work. -- Brian Eno
Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does. -- Tony Wilson
I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed. -- Elton John
I think musicians have always been drinking and sharing a good wine. It is, I hate to say this, another form of vice. -- Tom Araya
I'm inspired by artists and musicians. There are so many wonderful and talented people in the world. I love discovering new music, new writers, or new art. -- Alicia Keys
Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music. -- Brian Eno
I talked to ex-wives of musicians of the '70s for research. They're the funniest people in the world, yet there is this sad, beautiful thing in their eyes that says they've seen more than they could ever possibly tell you. -- Kate Hudson
You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough. -- Eminem
Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon. -- Nat Wolff
We have such a high drop-out rate from musicians, said the head of the college. He was right - I dropped out before I even dropped in. Months later they were still asking what had happened to me, not realising that I was on a UK tour. -- Holly Johnson
For most artists, you take what you have and who you are, and then you expand on it to make it more entertaining. Everyone knows actors aren't the same people that they play in movies, but people somehow expect musicians to be a certain way all the time! -- Tinashe
The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and paintings. They jailed filmmakers, musicians, painters, and sculptors. -- Khaled Hosseini
Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago. -- Tom Waits
Musicians are often asked to answer for an entire culture, or for an entire movement. It's a process of commodification. It becomes packaged and summarized in a word like 'emo' or 'grunge'... or 'folk music.' I think that's just language itself, trying to understand the mysteries of the world. -- Sufjan Stevens
There are a lot of musicians who are still desperately trying to pretend that it's 1998 and by having a huge marketing campaign, they somehow believe that they can sell 10 million records. That's delusional. No one sells 10 million records. The days of musicians getting rich off of selling records are done. -- Moby
Musicians from the beginning of time have been there to express the mood and the musical feelings in the air for whatever's going on in that particular culture. It's the greatest joy as a musician to be able to translate that, be part of something and watch the scenery around you. -- Trey Anastasio
Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still... we're part of a world we deeply love. Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we're one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind! -- Richard Bach
Athletes and musicians make astronomical amounts of money. People get paid $100 million to throw a baseball! Shouldn't we all take less and pass some of that money onto others? Think about firefighters, teachers and policemen. We should celebrate people that are intellectually smart and trying to make this world a better place. -- Kid Rock
When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The interesting thing about the top 200 to 300 tweeters - a lot of them are musicians, actors, etc. LeBron James, etc. I think Lady Gaga is number one. But! They're not all celebrities. There's 'CNN Breaking News.' And the 'New York Times.' And other brands like Gary Vaynerchuk, who aren't really that known outside that world. -- Dick Costolo
Music chooses her musicians. -- Patricia Barber
Our parents were musicians. -- Caroline Corr
All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians. -- Thelonious Monk
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I know girls like musicians! -- Nolan Gould
Worship the music, not the musicians. -- Eddie Vedder
Both of my parents were musicians. -- Bryan White
My family isn't posh; they're musicians. -- Audrey Niffenegger
All musicians are potential band leaders. -- Thelonious Monk
Blues musicians don't retire. They drop. -- Buddy Guy
Metal musicians say dumb things sometimes. -- Rob Halford
Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability. -- Rudolf Carnap
I'm just one of these unpopular musicians. -- Frank Zappa
Really good musicians don't think of "self-reflection". -- Dan Bejar
I feel really different from other musicians. -- Mary Timony
Monogamous musicians are like vegan hockey players. -- Rob Sheffield
I think musicians should stay off television generally. -- Sufjan Stevens
Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere. -- Mike Zwerin
Why do visual artists 'work' and musicians 'play? -- Max Elliott Slade
People want to build musicians into mythical beings. -- PJ Harvey
Nobody gives a crap if we're great musicians. -- Frank Zappa
I came from a huge extended family of musicians. -- Jake Epstein
Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due. -- James Cook
All the musicians that I know want to act. -- Juliette Lewis
A lot of good musicians made me look good. -- Cosimo Matassa
All the people I hung out with were musicians. -- Hunter Hayes
Verbal communication about music is impossible except among musicians. -- Virgil Thomson
When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30. -- Les Baxter
Obviously songs and musicians mean a lot to people. -- Stephen Malkmus
I owe everything to the musicians I work with. -- Robert Plant
Strange people like chefs, musicians, and politicians affect me. -- Jason Flemyng
Why can't jazz musicians just leave a melody alone? -- Peter Capaldi
A wedding is like a funeral, but with musicians. -- Patrick Dempsey
The death of young musicians isn't something to romanticize -- Frances Bean Cobain
I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth. -- John Coltrane
The majority of juice-heads and winos and junkies arent musicians. -- Thelonious Monk
I feel albino musicians could neutralise all the racial problems. -- Sly Stone
If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians. -- Neville Marriner
Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night. -- Miles Kington
Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians. -- Henry Rollins
A good song and good musicians can really move mountains. -- Joey Tempest
The musicians one day are going to listen to me. -- Joss Stone
On Eye of the Zombie, I had so-called studio musicians. -- John Fogerty
Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes. -- Yoko Ono
I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each. -- Les Baxter
There are more bad musicians than there is bad music. -- Isaac Stern
There's something extremely fragile about musicians, and that's their strength. -- Lisa Gerrard
I think most musicians do like to have a laugh. -- Neil Innes
My family was all musicians. We jam all the time. -- Tyler Hilton
Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians. -- Dave Brubeck
The point is, technology has empowered so many musicians, you know? -- Stanley Clarke

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