136 Quotes About Musicians

For someone so conflicted, who am I to give advice to anybody? It’s such a funny, grandiose idea

We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it.

I am a trained classical pianist. I can play all the masters. I can improvise on the piano, as well as play a variety of styles of music. Yet, I cannot build a piano. Is it necessary for me to know how to build a piano to be a good musician?

There are moments when disappointment comes to seek your soul as musicians do with notes, and the more these are wide and deep, the more a single word or gesture is enough to make music resonate within you that you would never want to hear.

We love music because we're all musicians.

Pythagoras felt that specific notes affected people to very minute gradations of feeling. And every songwriter, I think, knows that D is a great key for a long song. It just happens to work. And B flat is always a great jump key for jazz.~ Janis Ian

Music – I know my dreams within you.I see you within me.Music – I behold you.I see you dancing with all the colours I carry within me.When melodies make their way through the airI feel you in all of my fibres and pores.Music – only you infuse the deepest depths of my soul.Make me move on to pastures newand new shapes of my soul –you make me safe and sound.

Do you remember why you started playing?""Why does anybody play? ... Are you a musician?""Yes. ... Yes, I am."... "Then you know why I play."... "Because your spirit has to sing. Every musician's heart bears a song from the Creator, and he spends his life trying to duplicate it as an act of worship.

I grew up with John Lennon at my side, like a big brother.