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Musicians own music because music owns them. -- Virgil Thomson
As a musician usually music is your way out. -- Damon Albarn
Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians. -- Henry Rollins
I am a musician, ya know; music is my world. -- Stephen Marley
There are more bad musicians than there is bad music. -- Isaac Stern
There's more to being a musician than just making music. -- Burning Spear
I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians. -- Gary Larson
Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. -- Louis Armstrong
I've been a musician my whole life. I'm really enjoying making music again. -- Michael Chiklis
Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds. -- Richard Wagner
You must remember I grew up around music. Three of my family were musicians. -- Lori Singer
As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music. -- Van Morrison
Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians. -- Morton Feldman
We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters. -- Eddie Van Halen
As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything - I just enjoy music. -- Darren Criss
I've been a musician since childhood, and music is my first love. I love it. -- Steven Seagal
The music that I make, the younger musicians are referring to it as 'stretch' music. -- Christian Scott
I think the future looks great for music, musicians, bass players, and all we love about music. -- Billy Sheehan
Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band. -- Rashida Jones
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
Music chooses her musicians. -- Patricia Barber
Worship the music, not the musicians. -- Eddie Vedder
Verbal communication about music is impossible except among musicians. -- Virgil Thomson
People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose. -- Carlos Santana
Music criticism should be to musicians what ornithology is to the birds. -- Yuja Wang
Musicians wake up and create a more loving community by creating heavier music. -- Cass McCombs
Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world. -- Pattie Boyd
The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will. -- Jennifer Lopez
So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians. -- Branford Marsalis
We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it. -- Sebastian Faulks
There's too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging. -- Jimmy Page
In my imaginary utopian world there would be a greater allegiance between music writers and musicians. -- Emily Haines
Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music. -- Toots Thielemans
You should play with real musicians; the best music comes from real people interacting with each other. -- John Fogerty
Music might tame and civilize wild beasts, but 'tis evident it never yet could tame and civilize musicians. -- John Gay
A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful? -- Martin Gardner
I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me -- Rosanna Arquette
Like many musicians, I don't look back much... only concentrate on what music I'm doing, and occasionally look ahead. -- Tony Levin
I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me. -- Rosanna Arquette
YouTube provides a unique opportunity for all musicians to market and promote their music and directly engage their fans. -- Chad Hurley
A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth. -- Tom Morello
Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days. -- Kevin Eubanks
I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians. -- St. Vincent
Music is like having a conversation. All musicians inspire each other, and they're all geared to play something that matters. -- Vince Gill
The music industry is dominated by guys. I work with men 98 percent of the time - producers, arrangers, musicians, engineers. -- Shakira
I'm just lucky to have the type of friends and musicians and people dedicated to my music that I do. -- Wynton Marsalis
Music that is created with the primary aim of impressing other musicians fails to connect with the vast majority of listeners. -- Carl Orr
The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers. -- Roy Ayers
Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other. -- John Fogerty
I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music. -- Zach Braff
Musicians talk of nothing but money and jobs. Give me businessmen every time. They really are interested in music and art -- Jean Sibelius
Great stories, well written and heartfelt. Prisoner of SouthernRock is an engaging and entertaining celebration of southern music, musicians and characters. -- Chuck Leavell
Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree. -- Jimmy Page
You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music. -- Zakk Wylde
Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians. -- Robert Fripp
For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal. -- Charles Hazlewood
When you have the opportunity to make music with great musicians, take it. That's it. That's the only reason I need, really. -- Joss Stone
I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians. -- Michael Nyman
The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the Gypsies. -- Franz Liszt
Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness. -- Langston Hughes
The music has had a certain quality that people like just because it's a real true expression of how we are as musicians. -- Matt Cameron
Some people read books on musicians, while I read music books. Not books on music, but literally books full of sheet music. Fascinating reading. -- Jarod Kintz
I think there are just a million interviews in anthologies with famous musicians that are about the music, and they're really boring to read. -- Neil Strauss
I love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western. -- A. R. Rahman
I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art. -- Serj Tankian
In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play. -- Karen DeCrow
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
I think musicians are always supportive of each other because they want the groove to keep going on. They just basically want to play music. -- Linda Ronstadt
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
We're genuinely happy if some musicians of this younger generation are influenced by our music, as we were ourselves influenced 10 years ago by older musicians. -- Thomas Bangalter
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
If you're trying to connect to people with music - it's more of an outward process and a lot of times musicians can be very inward. -- Dave Grohl
I want people to hear musicians like Joe Cuba. He has done things to whole masses of Puerto Rican people. The music is fantastic and important. -- David Bowie
'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music. -- Artie Shaw
Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music. -- Artie Shaw
I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer. -- Robert Moog
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
I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparation and their utter devotion to this great, eternal language: music. -- Jessye Norman
The Internet had been a BIG help with my career. My advice to musicians, Internet is the key. It gets your music heard all across the world. -- Soulja Boy
I consider music to be a service and I am trying to serve the music, the musicians and the audience the best I can at every moment -- Jeff Coffin
I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody. -- Glenn Frey
As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of music like a math equation. -- Blake Judd
That's for non-musicians to say: "I only listen to this or that type of music." I think musicians love all music, or at least that's my case. -- Paul Banks
I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect. -- Damien Chazelle
Most musicians, regardless of what culture they come from, can get together and agree on some stuff about music. As there is going to be a common ground. -- Jerry Garcia
It will lead many musicians out of the cul-de-sac they currently face. And those that do not understand will be cursed to make disposable music on laptops forever. -- Chilly Gonzales
When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer. -- Mike Figgis
Some artists and indie musicians see Spotify fairly positively - as a way of getting noticed, of getting your music out there where folks can hear it risk-free. -- David Byrne
Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk about other people's music. -- Michael Azerrad
One of the things I love within music and within sports is how often musicians and athletes thank their audience. In the art world, you would never hear that. -- Eric Fischl
I would advise all young musicians to not only experience and play chamber music, but to go to operas, speak to the singers, to explore and expand your horizons. -- Wu Han
Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself. -- Billy Joel
They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second. -- Michelle Shocked
One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community. -- Branford Marsalis
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
Classical music gradually lost popularity because it is too complicated: you need twenty-five or thirty skilled musicians just to hum it properly. So people began to develop regular music. -- Dave Barry
The thing I like about 'Nashville,' it just happens to be about musicians, and all the music is practical, meaning it's performed at a concert or during a rehearsal. -- Will Chase
It bothers me when musicians listen to music from the '60s and try and recreate it. Those people weren't trying to recreate music from the '20s. Why do it? -- James Vincent McMorrow

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