Great Musicians Quotes

I think Baltimore is a wonderful artistic community with a lot of great musicians. It's kind of like a little secret for musicians.

When you have the opportunity to make music with great musicians, take it. That's it. That's the only reason I need, really.

Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.

I just love music and great guitar players.

These musicians, such as these Cubans in Havana, are a part of a scene that did produce great music and great musicians. They came from this tradition, so it's a good place to look. It's like prospecting: You gotta know where to look.

I met Les Paul when I was about 5. I was taken to see him perform and the place was sold out, just packed and full of really great musicians.

It's a wonderful thing to play with symphony orchestras - I've played with many - but it's really special in Israel because you have so many great musicians.

I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.

If somebody's going to represent our music live, I'd like to see it represented with excellence and spectacularly and with really great musicianship.

In the end, yes, I'm the singer of Old Dominion, but we're a band of great singers and great musicians, and we just respect each other so much.

Charlie Parker was a genius, as was Lester Young.

I've been asked why does Ireland produce so many great musicians, and the answer is it doesn't. When you count the great musicians Ireland has given the world in the last 20 years, you can do it on one hand.

Watch MTV and you can see what the music scene is like in England. The Spice Girls? Not a lot of creativity in the commercial area. There are still great musicians in England, but not a lot being heard that much.

I don't know any guitar player, any of the real greats, who don't rate Joni Mitchell up there with the best of them.

I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history.

I think jazz is the foundation for a lot of great musicians, and then after that, you know, it's this broad expression of things that really have influenced and addressed your life.

Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough.

I had a lot of luck in meeting great musicians who were kind enough to show me things.

At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.

You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.

Jonny Lang has the power to move the music into the next millennium by reaching the ears of a new generation. The great musicians have the power to break all of the 'isms'-race, age, sex, et cetera. Jonny Lang is one of those musicians.

Great musicians are great musicians, whether they're playing a trombone or an electric guitar or a xylophone.

I guess I've never been introduced properly to Pink Floyd. I know they're great, don't get me wrong. Excellent, excellent musicians; great band; awesome harmony; great song writers; I just don't know anything besides, I guess, the popular songs on the radio.

The great musicians are those who can reach people, who can make people feel something.

When I went off to college, I was expecting to be a concert musician. In music school I heard all of these kids who were just unbelievable. And I understand that you can be very, very good, but there's something that separates very, very good from great, and I knew that I wasn't great.