Top 36 Best Musician Quotes
#1. She began to study with a teacher of teachers, whom they brought for that purpose from the city of Mompox, and who died unexpectedly two weeks later, and she continued for several years with the best musician at the seminary, whose gravedigger's breath distorted her arpeggios.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#2. I love music so much I love what I do. I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.
Diana Krall
#3. Scientists contribute in a variety of ways and I don't think I can singular one even including [Albert] Einstein, that I can say that he's the best. We don't work like the best basketball player and the best musician and so on. Science is a collective effort.
Ahmed H. Zewail
#4. God was like the best musician in the world, because he put together all the sounds of nature and gave people like Jimi Hendrix his fingers and John Lennon his brain.
John Corey Whaley
#5. I do everything I can to be the best actor I can be, the best musician I can be. I try to take risks; I try not to let fear run my life.
Robert David Hall
#6. Yeah, we try to get the best musicians possible, and Justin [Robinson] is a great musician, man, a great player. You must have been surprised to see him out there, then.
Common
#7. I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye. He set a great example for all of us local musicians. Still, to this day, I see him as the best example of a right-on musician.
Dave Grohl
#8. And of course, the musician - if he's serious - always answers: My last album is my best, otherwise I wouldn't have done it.
Klaus Schulze
#9. I feel like what I'm best at is being a musician and a performer. I want to use that to help people who are good at starting nonprofits.
Kathleen Hanna
#10. It is by continuing to put out good work that the artist best shows his gratitude.
Criss Jami
#11. TLC has helped me to know that as a musician, I can talk about anything; that there are no barriers, and that you can be yourself. That's what I love about them. Left Eye in particular helped me to stay on top of my A game. She's one of the best female MCs that I've heard.
Lil' Mama
#12. Whether it's an attorney or a bond trader or a journalist, or a musician or pastor, you want to do your best. You don't want to seek acclaim. You don't want to seek awards. You want to seek to do your best at what God's given you.
Louie Giglio
#13. My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a deal for the sake of other members of my group when I shouldn't have, because I was right in the end.
Ziggy Marley
#14. Learn the rules and learn the game, before you start breaking the rules and changing the game.
Your education, experience and understanding of what was and what is, will give you the best foundation to change what will be.
Loren Weisman
#15. I enjoy people who have passion, whether it is as a musician or whatever they do. All people who have success keep it very basic. Try your best. But without passion, you will not have success.
Nobu Matsuhisa
#16. It's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing. I'm not a musician. I never thought of performing in a rock n' roll band. I was just drawn in. It was like being called to duty - I was called to duty, and I did my duty as best as I could.
Patti Smith
#18. The beauty of being a musician is writing songs. That's the best part. It's therapeutic and honest and private.
Gin Wigmore
#19. To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#20. It's been important to me to be a good activist, a good thinker, a good musician, a good singer, and a good entertainer. You can't do it all, but I have walked those delicate lines as best I know how.
Holly Near
#21. The best musicians are not the best players, they're the best listeners.
Pat Metheny
#23. Musicians can look forward to playing with the best musicians that ever played. They can even have their own band!
David Berg
#24. The best musicians answer something in you when you don't even know the question.
Allison Pearson
#25. I want longevity; I love music, being a musician is the greatest gift in the world to me, and if I were to get signed to a label, my family and team around me are always gonna be there to make sure they want the very best for me. My fans are what it's all about ...
Christina Grimmie
#26. 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
#27. I had a chance to play with the best musicians that were coming through because I was pretty good myself or else they wouldn't have tolerated with me.
Louis Armstrong
#28. Be good to people. Be good to every single person you come into contact with. My best friends are great musicians. But more than that, they're great people.
Taylor Swift
#29. I have found that the best cure for self pity is to do something to help someone else.
Carl Orr
#30. Being a musician - and I like to think of myself as a musician with a capital M - you need to be an omnivore, and I think the best musicians will listen to anything and love everything, and I do.
Jason Robert Brown
#31. At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.
Daniel Ek
#32. You need to understand that a skilled professional songwriter can accelerate your success as an already talented musician. These people are writing every single day, so their craft is really sharp, and it's the best songwriters who consistently get on the radio.
Kara DioGuardi
#33. I'm not a real good musician, but I can write [a song] pretty well. I experiment once in a while to see what I can do. I find out the best I can do is stay with ballads.
Marty Robbins
#34. Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.
Miles Kington
#35. Find what you're best at and exaggerate it.
Steve Vai
#36. How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score, tell just how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes over the massed strings will sound?
Daniel Dennett
