#musician

The thing with me. I can't stick musicians. I've thought about this. I can't stand them, and being stuck in a studio with them I think that's my strength I can hear what they can't. ↗

— Mark E. Smith

#being #hear #i #i can #i think

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#anything #childhood #desire #else #ever

There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience! ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#chill #cold #deadliest #freezes #more

What I have to do as a musician is do everything that is not on the music. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#i #music #musician

People are afraid to ask musicians to be involved in projects because they anticipate being turned down. Young artists hesitate before contacting me. People in my position don't get approached often enough. ↗

— David Sylvian

#anticipate #approached #artists #ask #because

May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life. ↗

— James Joseph Sylvester

#dream #feels #life #mathematician #mathematics

Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general. ↗

— Lionel Hampton

#black #general #important #me #musicians

I'm just opening the doors. And a lot of this is new to me - thinking about it, and letting go again and again and again, trusting that if I'm meant to continue working as a musician, it'll happen. If I'm not, then pull out the life support. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#again #continue #doors #go #happen

I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician. ↗

— Geddy Lee

#always #felt #hard #hard rock #i

I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician. ↗

— Patti Smith

#i #know #musician #performer #strong