Musician Quotes

When I like a musician I want to see a picture or a video of them.

I was worried that I didn't have as many Facebook 'likes' as another musician. You can almost feel like a failure if you aren't building your fame in that way.

So many policy decisions that effect musicians are being made without any input from musicians at all.

A lot of my friends are musicians or artists, and their talent always pushes me to think creatively.

There's zero correlation between owning music and being a greater music lover or musician than the next person.

Communicating with musicians is really interesting because everyone has their quirks and their strengths and their weaknesses.

I've been a musician for 52 years professionally. I do it because, for me, I love it.

I'm just one of these unpopular musicians.

Nobody gives a crap if we're great musicians.

As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation.

I can play the guitar, the dulcimer, the piano, and the drums. However, I am not a "performance quality" musician. Rather, I am a composer and a producer.

The most sophisticated pop musician that I knew of and liked was Paul McCartney.

I always loved the look of musicians. I've always admired them because they have a look - when I was growing up, it seemed that the ones I liked didn't need to have a stylist.

You can't get a guitar player like Dweezil without his commitment to the work that it takes A) to be the musician that he is and B) to the music itself.

A grandmaster must memorize thousands of chess duels in his head, as these are for him what words of the mother tongue are to the ordinary people and what notes are to a musician.

Even though I don't sing any more, singing was my first education in the arts, and it's clear to me that my training as a musician also shaped me as a writer.

I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.

I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.

You are in a state of mixing, and you just live with it. There is not one musician who is completely happy with a mix.

I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.

People see musicians on a huge stage playing a festival for 80,000 people and are like, "Oh, they have such magnetism," but it always embarrasses me more than it makes me feel proud.

I prefer live musicians whenever possible. And I tailor the ensemble to what is appropriate for the film and the score I'm writing.

Whenever I heard a musician do something that I could not explain, I went back to the theory in order to figure it out.

Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no difference.

I like to read. I've become obsessed with fiction. And it's too bad: I'm a musician many people love and I myself am not part of the music scene.

I liked rock music going back to the '60s, but I never ever had any desire to be a rock musician and when I started doing a band it was experimental music.

There are a lot better musicians than me out there that just haven't had the luck to fall into everything like I have.

A lot of the way I sing is playing off other musicians. It's what I love to do the most.

When I decided to be a musician I was hoping that it would be one of my contributions in having a positive impact on the world. That's always what I wanted to do.

Im just lucky to have great parents. My sisters an actress. My brothers a musician. I found it hard growing up in such a... creatively driven family. I wanted to have this thing to create, myself.

I still have a hard time just calling myself a musician. If I'm talking to somebody and they ask me what I do, I say I play music.

I'm having to cope with the fact that some people might consider me a musician.

Being an actor is a much more structured life than being a musician.

I think for a classical musician the goal is the same as an electronic musician. A very good professional classical musician must not think about technique.

If you look at the way people behave at shows, icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship.

Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style.

I have a real love of sound and the shape of the sound. I'm a musician, and I'm fascinated with the effects of sound, and tone, and pitch and melody and all that sort of stuff.

There was a very famous musician in our family. He was a great violinist, an internationally known teacher. He was Leopold Auer.

I started as a musician, then I was a singer. I sang with the band. Then I was an actor in the theater, TV, films. But I guess I am a song and dance man. It's at the heart of everything I do.

Musicians are affected by the audience just as much as audiences are affected by the musicians. The only problem is that often times musicians won't allow themselves to admit to that fact.

The place that I found where European musicians and American musicians come together is that odd middle world which is called uncertainty.

By and large, musicians respect New York audiences, and also are greatly concerned about New York reviews.

I'm a musician. Anything I've done as an actor has come from that.

The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape.

The musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is new.

If you are a musician who has released albums, it would perhaps be morbidly interesting to know how much you would be owed if everyone who now has your music had actually bought your record.

I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history.

Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician.

Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.

There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.