Musician Quotes

Being an American musician means being adventurous.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

[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.

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

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

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

We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it.

A lot of my friends are artists or musicians or single parent families and I'm totally aware of how difficult it is for them to make ends meet.

As an improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business; I am in the surrender business.

My father slapped my thighs with a variety of meats until I began to cry and sulked in the corner. I later became a musician

Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell 'em to do that, they'll find a little pot of gold.

Like many musicians, I don't look back much... only concentrate on what music I'm doing, and occasionally look ahead.

You know, any sane magician would never reveal his method of deception. And I don't think that a sensible musician would either.

I'm not more than a musician that enjoys what he does and a Colombian that dreams and fights for peace in his country.

When you commit to being a musician, I don't think you're really sure or care about when you're going to pay the bills. I don't think you care about that as much as you care about playing music.

The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to the piano or a painter to canvas. I found that I was master of the elements, that I could work miracles.

I don't know where I would be without music. Even if I wasn't a musician, I think music is God. In a lot of ways, it's my saving grave. It's been my religion since I was a little kid.

I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman.

I don't hate being compared with female musicians. I don't mind that at all. I have no problem with seeing connections between women's work.

When you're a musician and you release an album, you have to accept the criticism - and I accept it! But it's something I'll never get used to.

I don't just strictly sample. I build. I'm a musician: I play piano and drums, I read notes, I write music.

Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor, or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it may bore you, but nothing will replace it, and once mastered it will support you like a rock.

I'm definitely musician and storyteller. But I always like to take an active role in things I care about socially and environmentally.

That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.

I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.

You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.

Ohhhso hard to say, but George Harrison was pretty darn special. Such a great guybeautiful person and amazing songwriter/musician. A real honor for me to have played on his last tour

Being a musician is a job - it is just a really fun one!

I think very frequently, musicians become a victim of every song they sing. I like all kinds of recreation. It's aggressive. I want to be part of everything.

I love anyone who breaks the rules, and musicians always break the rules - in an aggressive way.

The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a musician is he.

A very few musicians passed across all decades. In terms of trumpet playing, Louis Armstrong does it of course but Sweets [Edison] is right up there too. He is unique, in every sense of the term.

I was very drawn to music of all types, from Beethoven to Jimi Hendrix. There were musicians and composers who obviously were expressing a vision that was beyond the mundane.

An element I love about the blues is jamming with other musicians.

Feed the musician, and he's out of tune.