Musicians Quotes

I have been touring since I got my first band in 1962, so there is no problem there. We are basically performing musicians, so that's what we do.

Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.

One of the things I love about music is live performance.

… the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race … Properly the Jew ought hardly to be hears of; but he is hears of, has always been heard of … His contributions to the world’s list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are way out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers.

I've always had gender confusion. I had two older brothers, and I've been predominantly male influenced. I really always looked up to my dad, really always looked up to my brothers... I had a lot of male friends growing up. It didn't help that in my town, where I lived, there were no female musicians.

I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

My musical education started in the limelight, because I found myself surrounded by real musicians, but after my career had taken off.

When I grew up, I had influences as diverse as Keith Richards, Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix.

If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works - he has an idea and he writes it down, so there's one transmission loss. Then he gives the score to a group of musicians who interpret that, so there's another transmission loss. So he's involved with three information losses. Whereas what I nearly always do is work directly to the sound if it doesn't sound right. So there's a continuous loop going on.

I'm not a big equipment guy; I think that people are a little bit shocked by that. I really don't care about gear in general. I care about people and their intentions to make music - it doesn't matter what equipment you have.

The musicians one day are going to listen to me.

All of these people kept on being professional musicians and composers in the strictest sense.

I know the musical world as well as I know the comedy world.

The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.

When I can focus on something like guitar or painting, I do. I started painting people I admire, like Kerouac, Bob Dylan, Nelson Algren, Marlon Brando, Patti Smith, my girl, my kids.

I'm more of an actor than a musician. I've made a little name for myself as an actor, but I also front this band. We have some great players out here, and we've found a little niche with L.A. Hootenanny.

I'm a musician, so for the most part I've always thought that the musicians were equally as inspiring to listen to - maybe more so, in some cases - in addition to the artists.

I think the future looks great for music, musicians, bass players, and all we love about music.

Rock stars are good at making noise.

I'm a massive fan of Troye Sivan, Ariana Grande, and Justin Timberlake.

My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.

When I played with Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings in Vegas, the guys used to go, 'Dick, cut it out, man! You're moving around too much on this stage. You're making us look bad!'

I surround myself with incredible musicians who inspire me to always do my best.

In Nashville, good guitar players are a dime a dozen.

Mostly I play with records. I play with my friend Bill Evans.