Musician Quotes

Pretty much every artist in Scotland - musician, writer, poet, actor - they're all part of a thing called the National Collective.

I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians.

Being an American musician means being adventurous.

Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.

When I was seven years old, I was leading a quartet and trio, and that really laid the groundwork for me as a musician.

[Slogan of her 'Trouble Bureau' for needy artists and musicians:] Happiness is a change of trouble.

I don't wanna talk about Teo [Macero]. He's a helluva musician, a brilliant musician, but he's just not for me, that's all. I can elaborate on it, but I don't want to do that.

I wanted to be a musician but I didn't have the talent for it, so I decided I wanted to be famous, so I became an actor.

My life won't be a series of either/ors - musician or actor, rock or country, straitlaced or rebellious, this or that, yes or no. The real choices in life aren't that simple.

I had a chance to play with the best musicians that were coming through because I was pretty good myself or else they wouldn't have tolerated with me.

I am a musician and am so thankful for that. I have no experience of war. But I find a similarity between performing music onstage and acting - a reality of emotion.

The best musicians answer something in you when you don't even know the question.

My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing.

I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be a professional musician, and that means you have to feed yourself with the instrument.

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

I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that is not to say that jazz does not play a vital and important role in my life.

Music proposes. Sound disposes.

Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.

Music and visual performance have to influence each other. Designers and musicians have to be the nexus of all things pop culture, so I think about designers when I'm making music.

I'm a compulsive musician, but it's also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else.

I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.

That's what music is: entertainment. The more you put yourself into it, the more of you comes out in it.

It's all about synthesis, you don't have to be a real musician. You just synthesize your own reality, synthesize your own talents. Welcome to the electronic age.

I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a musician, as an artist, record producer, you name it.

I'm a great songwriter, but I'm not the most talented musician.

When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.

I have a soft spot for musicians. If a man could ride this roller coaster with me and come out alive, then I guess we'd deserve each other's company.

A musician can get lost to what he is in the session busines as it was.

All music now, I think, is fair game for jazz musicians to interpret, and they have been. I would consider those songs standards now. "Norwegian Wood" is a standard; "Call Me" is a standard.

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

Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood.

Liverpool was an industrial town, a poor town. The people fought hard for what they wanted to achieve and there was a hunger there, and that hunger has remained with the musicians.

I think the most important thing about what musicians do is the music. You can be as big an arsehole as you want but if you're not making good music, you won't get away with it.

The sexiest woman musician is Alicia Keys.

Music might tame and civilize wild beasts, but 'tis evident it never yet could tame and civilize musicians.

Sonically, musicians always go above and beyond in our efforts to disrupt radio. It's always about being different. Our radio is never conventional anyway.

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

With just one musician, you can really do an unlimited number of things on the inside of the piano, if you have at your disposal an exploded keyboard.

You don't find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn't mean to say you can't be really good.

We are concerned, not with the development of just one capacity, such as that of a mathematician, or a scientist, or a musician, but with the total development of the student as a human being.

[Too many musicians are] too involved with doing and not listening.

I might respect you as a brilliant intellect, runner, musician or juggler. But respect your BELIEFS? Only if they're supported by evidence.

The fact that I fell into this seemed more like a stroke of good fortune than hard work. Not to say that I didn't work hard, but it wasn't like, "I'm going to be a musician."

I've had my bubblegum years and I did them well. Now it's time to come back as the woman, artist, and musician that I am without apologizing.

You're a musician, it is important that you suffer!

A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don’t feel great about, and it’ll make you feel so bad it’ll destroy you and kill you.

Musicians communicate in other ways. That's just something you rely on.

If being a gangster were a prerequisite to being a musician, there'd be a lot less cello music, for example.

I feel very honored to be playing with Bill Pierce. He's such a great musician.

I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.