Quotes of Musician - somelinesforyou

“ Composers shouldn't think too much — it interferes with their plagiarism. ”

- Howard Dietz

“ God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth, That they might touch the hearts of men, And bring them back to heaven again. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Sweetest the strain when in the songThe singer has been lost. ”

- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

“ I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players. ”

- Walter Becker

“ Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians. ”

- Morton Feldman

“ Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am. ”

- Herbie Hancock

“ Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. ”

- G. K. Chesterton

“ All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver. ”

- Willa Cather

“ I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff. ”

- Jessica Simpson

“ The great thing about being an astronaut is you kind of get to do a little bit of everything. I mean, we're going to ride a rocket uphill. ”

- David M. Brown

“ If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel you become a royal reporter. ”

- Max Hastings

“ I've always liked P.F. Sloan's 'Eve Of Destruction.' It's the performance by the singer, Barry McGuire, and, um, I would say it's also the chord progression and melody. ”

- Frank Black

“ When life life does not find a singer to sing her heat, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind. ”

- Khalil Gibran

“ We are musicians, entertainers. We can do it. We have the right tools. No worries. ”

- Pete Townshend

“ The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes — ah, that is where the art resides. ”

- Artur Schnabel

“ He who pays the piper calls the tune. ”

- Unknown

“ I've always thought of myself as a ballad singer who could sing rock 'n' roll, not the other way around. ”

- Elvis Costello

“ Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune. ”

- Igor Stravinsky

“ I just start singing, and it all comes back. ”

- William Harvey

“ I just don't like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn't need another Streisand!" (on Diana Ross). ”

- Barbara Streisand

“ But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers. ”

- Victoria de los Angeles

“ I must say to you that my intensions for instance doing German, it is because Victoria de los Angeles is nothing to do with wanting to be like a German singer. ”

- Victoria de los Angeles

“ Gayly the troubadour Touched his guitar. ”

- Thomas Haynes Bayly

“ I never considered myself a patriot. I like to think I recognize only humanity as my nation. ”

- Isaac Asimov

“ When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows. ”

- Robert Moog

“ I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life. ”

- Gustav Mahler

“ To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole. ”

- Gustav Mahler

“ It is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain the services of first-class conductors. They are sick and tired of dealing with singers, as I am. ”

- Rudolf Bing

“ I never socialized with singers. It's very dangerous if you work with opera… I don't think that in 30 years a singer has entered my apartment. ”

- Rudolf Bing

“ I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer. ”

- Lee Ryan
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