Musician Quotes

A lot of good musicians made me look good.

If I write songs and I think they sound good, then that's it. That's what I do. I'm not a technical musician, which is fine for rock and roll.

I'm not trying to save the world. As a musician and artist, it just ain't me.

To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.

You don't have to be musician to listen to music, and you don't have to be a filmmaker to go to the cinema, but somehow when we think of science, we think of it only as an academic discipline.

I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics

The more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become.

Most musicians don't write about being a musician cause most musicians aren't writers.

The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions.

If there is any selfish angle, then it would probably be me just knocking myself in the head, thinking "Is there anybody here? Am I still able to communicate with other musicians?"

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.

Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big deal.

I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do.

And then the last album, "Get It", was done over a shorter period of time and I started using other musicians, as opposed to playing all the instruments myself like I did on the other two.

I love being a drummer but I love being a musician in general and I love the Foo fighters.

I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye he set a great example for all of us local musicians. Still to this day I see him as the best example of a right-on musician.

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?

When I look at how fortunate I've been, being a musician... my response to being overpaid is that I should pay it back to my community in some way.

I’m not all about money, but, like most musicians, I am about survival.

I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.

The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.

Beginning in the nineteenth century, with performers like Franz Liszt, were musicians who were able to excite an audience and communicate on a whole new level.

Andy Gullahorn is my favorite new musical discovery of the past five years. He's a brilliant writer, a fine musician and a generous spirit.

I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing.

Angelo Badalamenti brought me into the world of music and that's really what gave me permission to get into it even though I'm not a musician. It's just an intuitive thing for me.

When you are so strongly drawn to music, you can't not be a musician.

Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer.

If it takes me 10 years to be the musician I want to be, great.

I like acting and being a musician. It's like comparing apples and oranges. But I really like my day job. I've always played music since I was 12, and I guess I always will.

When I was a kid, all I wanted to do was to be a musician. I lost everything I had, but I just knew that someday I'd be able to tell the world to 'go big or go home.' The world needs to know.

Every time we buy a CD or download a song, the artist is paid for their work. You might not know that this isn't the case when a musician's work is played on the radio.

I have got to look at the flip side of things, because, in a way, music is always a conversation, you know? It's a conversation between the musician and their tools and their technologies.

I was never planning on being a musician. It's basically a hobby that sprawled out of control.

Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.

I actually wanted to be a jazz musician first. My grandparents introduced me to Louis Armstrong. I loved Louis Armstrong so I took up the trumpet and just did that every day and practiced that.

My mom was a musician, and my dad had this passion for music. That's kind of how a lot of their relationship was built. When I came around, I was constantly exposed to music.

Hearing Oscar Peterson was something that resonated within me. There are so many musicians I've been fortunate to play with. The people that inspire me are the people I play with.

I feel like I'm struggling now, and nearly every musician I know feels that way - even the most successful ones. I realize that I'm very lucky, but I still feel like I could be doing so much better.

We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat when we really mean he is outstanding.

Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.

I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed.

I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.

I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it's going to happen, but as musicians I think we've got to step up and say 'come on'.

I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale...

I think people don't realize how many hours of practice goes into becoming a musician and getting better.

I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, 'cause the people I was listening to all wrote. I never thought it was an option to sing anyone else's songs.

In my imaginary utopian world there would be a greater allegiance between music writers and musicians.

I said to myself a long time ago that I didn't want to be that hanging-on-for-too-long, aging-rock-musician guy, and that's why I sort of got away from music.

In the day-to-day life of a traveling musician, it's easy to miss so many details. The world goes by at high-speed; it will take your breath away.

Playing drums or music, being a musician, is inside of you. So you would always see me tapping on something, playing on tables... I never felt the need to pull out drums.