Musician Quotes

As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of music like a math equation.

I don't think in time signatures, and when I do, what I write is generally 3/4 or 4/4, the most basic, straightforward stuff. I think that comes from just not being a super-schooled musician.

It's been nice to have a band and people I'm close to that I can get that understanding from and help me realize what I want to do in my life as a musician.

I love working with different musicians in the studio, that's a real joy working with someone for the first time.

I speak my mind and come from a place of conscience, as well as have fun as a musician.

I just play the music that I love with musicians that I respect, and fortunately, I'm in a position where people are willing to play with me, and perhaps I can do something to help them.

It's usually important to me to get my idea out first because a lot of times my ideas will seem weird to musicians.

I've got this thing where I always kind of diss the older stuff and favor the newer stuff. I mean, it's not just my thing; every artist or musician is like that, I guess.

Audiences tend to dig the earlier stuff by any given musician, and the artists themselves always tend to prefer the thing that they're doing now.

You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste.

I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians apart.

My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician.

I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I certainly have respect for those who make music their livelihood.

I wanted to be a singer. I wanted to be a musician. I wanted to travel and write songs and be a good songwriter. It came to me slowly after college.

I am a musician before a writer, and a drawer before a writer. When I lose sight of that, which I do, my work tends to suffer.

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.

Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.

I am a writer - that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the morning and then going to sleep that night with something that did not exist.

Being a musician, you want to be able to do the hardest stuff there is. People would think it's classical, but in classical, it's all on the page and the difficulty is keeping up with the music.

I don't think there is a musician today that hasn't been affected by Elvis' music. His definitive years - 1954-57 - can only be described as rock's cornerstone. He was the original cool.

I've been really lucky as far as the caliber of musicians I've been able to work with each time.

I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hard-core bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my performance style and a story to tell.

I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter.

Both of my parents were musicians.

My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor. I just happen to be an author.

Music that is created with the primary aim of impressing other musicians fails to connect with the vast majority of listeners.

I have found that the best cure for self pity is to do something to help someone else.

KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.

Our parents were musicians.

musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.

Musicians wake up and create a more loving community by creating heavier music.

I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.

I don't think I'm even a musician. I don't play a lot of instruments, not really a soloist or anything.

I'm a folk preacher. A folk therapist. A folk musician. I come from authentically that which is of my experience. Therefore, the music is strictly from the soul, strictly improvisational.

I think a lot of actors, especially actors with a theater background, have a musical ear. A lot of actors just want to be musicians anyway, and a lot of musicians want to be actors.

I'm a musician. It's what I do! I wouldn't be too good at anything else.

I've been collaborating with Ira Schickman on some songs, and there will be many other, great musicians involved.

I actually started as a singer in Brooklyn, and I lived in a community. To get out of the ghetto of my community, I was a musician.

Sculptors, poets, painters, musicians-they're the traditional purveyors of Beauty. But it can as easily be created by a gardener, a farmer, a plumber, a careworker.

Playing the Opry, when I get the opportunity - it's one of the coolest honors for any musician in any genre, but especially for a country musician.

My father, Arinze Ejiofor , was a musician and a doctor. Nobody's ever asked me about that combination and what growing up in that environment was like.

I'll probably pay more attention to the musicians in the pit than the stars because they're the closest you're going to get to normal people in the audience.

Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know this for a fact because I used to be a folk musician.

How many physicians, scientists, teachers, pastors, missionaries, statesmen, musicians, businessmen, and notable contributors to society have been murdered in the womb?

Composers are in some ways the last frontier of musician that gets a paycheck for their musical services.

When I look back on my life, I don't have regrets about what I didn't do. If I'd become a musician, it could have ruined my life.

Yeah, we try to get the best musicians possible, and Justin [Robinson] is a great musician, man, a great player. You must have been surprised to see him out there, then.

YouTube is an amazing platform for young musicians - although its harder to get noticed now that everyone is on it.

I suppose I would still be a communicator, maybe a musician.

Athens, much like Austin, is a difficult music scene. There are so many musicians there that it is hard to get gigs and hard for people to take you seriously.