Musician Quotes

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  If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Music, Spiritual

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.12, St. Martin's Press

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

  Carlos Santana

  Flower, Water, People

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• My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

  Robert Fripp

  Exercise, Futility

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• A lot of people think that the music was responsible for a lot of changes in the Sixties, but I think the music came out of it. The music wouldnt have happened without the social changes.

  Steve Winwood

  Change, Music, Thinking

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• Don't cheat yourself out of music. Music is one thing. The music business is another thing. Save enough of yourself to keep living anyway. Save enough joy in your heart to enjoy it. Let your reward be in the doing of it.

  Bill Withers

  Music, Cheating, Business

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• Yeah, I was with Jethro Tull for three weeks, so what?

  Tony Iommi

  Music, Three, Band

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• There is so little time for us all; I need to be able to say what I want quickly and to as many people as possible.

  Marc Bolan

  Time, People, Able

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• A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

  Leopold Stokowski

  Inspirational, Music, Art

  Leopold Stokowski's address to an audience at Carnegie Hall, as quoted in The New York Times, May 11, 1967.

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• There is a fun, flippant side to me, of course. But I would much rather be known as the Ice Queen.

  Siouxsie Sioux

  Queens, Fun, Ice Queen

  "Her dark materials" by Michael Bracewell, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2005.

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• Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.

  Paul Weller

  Music, Frustration, Guitar

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• A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Writing, Air

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Music itself is not going to let you down.

  Virgil Thomson

  Known

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• I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.

  David Lee Roth

  Funny, Life, Sports

  "Roth Army" by Oliver Hurley, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2004.

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  Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.

  Louis Armstrong

  Inspiring, Music, Retirement

  1968 Quoted in the Observer, 21 Apr.

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• After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

  Aldous Huxley

  Motivational, Music, Wisdom

  Music at Night (1931) p. 17

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

  Keith Richards

  Silence, Paper, Canvas

  Twitter post from Sep 17, 2012

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• Love , creativity, and opportunity is in the air. Take it in and do your thing.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  Twitter post from Apr 16, 2011

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• All I want for my birthday is another birthday.

  Ian Dury

  Funny, Birthday, Honesty

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  Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.

  Billy Joel

  Heart, Loud Voices, Want

  Twitter post from Sep 27, 2011

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  There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

  Leonard Cohen

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

  Song: Anthem

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• If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it.

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Practice, Two, Missing

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  When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

  Miles Davis

  Life, Music, Beautiful

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• There's a lot of different forms of communication, but music is absolutely the purest one.

  Duane Allman

  Inspirational, Music, Communication

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• Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Music, Play, Sound

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.308, Hachette UK

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