Musician Quotes

To gain confidence, constant practice is essential. Just as a musician needs to practice regularly to retain his touch, the watercolourist needs to be constantly in touch with the medium.

The music is in minors.

An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.

I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.

I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get into it because you love it.

The person I would trust the most is my mom. She's just really creative... She's a playwright and she's a musician.

I'd been trained as a classical musician, but also as a pop musician. My teacher made sure that everything was available.

Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.

The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and its important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.

If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard.

We were brash young fellows. I was always hanging with the older crowd anyway. The musicians were the Hip Cats, and I was hanging with them anyway. I Just started out real early.

I know a lot of great musicians that don't know they're even great, because mangers try and make them feel belittled like they're not worth a crap.

To play the trumpet well, a musician can not let more than a few days pass without practicing.

I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that.

I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for.

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?

I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.

The Chronic represented everything that I hated about hip-hop as a fan, but then later represented everything that I stood for as a musician and engineer.

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.

A lot of my friends are struggling musicians. Being a struggling actor, it's just frustrating because you're not allowed to do what you want to do.

Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life. But I had an insight that maybe we would have a political contribution to make in the future.

As a musician, I look for certain things that stimulate me. And what I look for is something that's an evolution on a particular genre that I never heard before.

A very talented player and all around excellent musician. I love hearing his records on radio!

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.

I feel like musicians have such a precarious place in the political discourse, because musicians are, sort of just by nature, people-pleasers.

Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.

Obviously, [Wham!] made me a lot more comfortable as a musician. I was very confident that I would become a successful musician, but I had no idea I would be a celebrity.

When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the staging.

I'm more encouraged by the saplings: new music groups, tiny new venues, entrepreneurial musician-composers who aren't waiting to be discovered but are instead building their own Establishment.

Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.

Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.

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

To me, as a musician, there aren't any boundaries genre-wise as far as what can you listen to to inspire you.

Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.

There's Eddie's conviction and his lyrics and his ideals, and he can just rock straight out. His vocals are incredible. And we all are really competent musicians.

I don't know whether you [musician] can be all things to everybody, which is why there are different kinds of music.

Edible names are what drives me as a musician. My next band will be called the Hot Dogs.

I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

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.

I never really thought about becoming a professional musician.

A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.

Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are.

I just believe that young people need to be able to learn how to write in their own voice. Just like a musician, you pride yourself on having your own distinct sound.

I'm not trying to stay away from being a celebrity, I'm not saying, 'I'm sooo not famous,' I'm trying to continue being a musician in a time when everyone is very celebrity-led.

I am not what I would consider truly a musician. I am an inventor. I am an innovator.

I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard.

I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried to maintain my curiosity and spontaneity.

It's always surprised me that mainstream America had the good taste to like R.E.M. It doesn't have the digestible quality the general public tends to look for in its favorite musicians.

I just have never seen anyone build anything significant in any field without having a deep and detailed sense of what they are building on.