Musician Quotes

Sometimes when you meet a musician you are a fan of, and he or she isn't the friendliest person, you walk away from the experience wondering if you will ever be able to listen to their music again.

Lou Reed's music has been in the lives of millions of people all over the world for decades. He had a truly universal presence and was respected by musicians across all genres.

Selfishly, I make music for me. I like to make music. I like looking for songs. I like working with interesting musicians. I like producing records. It's something I will always do.

At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.

I don't look at music from the standpoint of being a musician; I look at it from the standpoint of being a human being.

I am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being.

Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.

I am a musician, a songwriter, music fan. I live in New York City and I love my job.

Only a small percentage of novelists, painters, musicians, scientists, anywhere in the world, are talented. But there are many more in Hollywood than one would expect from looking movies.

Chris Martin is more of a musician and hasn't really put himself out there as a television host or anything like that.

The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.

My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.

I did a lot of writing when I was in college, and that's what I thought I wanted to do; saying that I wanted to be a writer seemed more reasonable than saying I wanted to be a musician.

It was like an exponential weed. And people treated me as if I was an established musician. I wasn't.

When I'm working behind a camera, I feel like I'm trying to achieve something like a jazz musician does.

It's hard to find other musicians that push you to go somewhere new all the time.

What I've witnessed, managers are divisive and allow musicians to become clouded, irresponsible, and unaware of the world around them.

I came from a huge extended family of musicians.

Many of the African musicians are well-schooled and well-versed...what they do takes a high level of musicianship.

Everybody can perform, there are so many outlets. Musicians are no longer limited. In the past, the record companies made most of the money. I for one am not sorry to see them fade away.

Most true musicians don't do it for the money, they do it because they love it. When I did slam poetry, it was a great way for me to express myself, I loved it.

As far as artists and musicians, they don't retire. They might tour less.

It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.

The fact that a total of 18 musicians humbly came together to share the glory and create something this original, epic, and downright heavy, is a feat worthy of deep respect.

I have a hard time even calling myself a musician, but I still have to be involved in music in some capacity in my life.

Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true.

My love of R&B and hip-hop has influenced my life not even as a musician, but generally in terms of growing up and looking to America as an inspiration.

Hip-hop has been the guiding light of my life as a musician and a music fan. It's the one common thread through all of it from the time I bought my first record probably. It's always been there.

I never looked at being a musician any different than waking up one day and wanting to be an accountant or a lawyer.

I've been a musician longer than I've been an actor.

I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.

I've always chosen all my own material; no one ever told me what to sing or how to sing it, but I've always been pressured intensely to use musicians outside of my band.

I've always done a few things at once. I've always been a musician and an actor, at the same time.

I think one of the reasons musicians keep doing what they do and writers keep doing what they do, is that we're totally unsuited for anything else. And I for one am much too lazy.

Lady Gaga is one of the most amazingly talented musicians to bring her gifts to humanity in a long time.

Strange people like chefs, musicians, and politicians affect me.

Musicians are so well covered in the press, it would be great to see more outspoken practitioners of green life.

I'm a self-taught musician so how I read music is kind of very weak and I kind of read my own version of tablature, I write my own crappy reminders on what I'm playing.

Black musicians were either trying to be American or trying to play down their Caribbean roots.

I consider music to be a service and I am trying to serve the music, the musicians and the audience the best I can at every moment.

I was a musician first before anything.

Most musicians, regardless of what culture they come from, can get together and agree on some stuff about music. As there is going to be a common ground.

Being a musician - it's easier for me to date an athlete. There's too much competition [with a musician]. There's too much know-it-all pop star.

I like to be in the now, now. Sometimes musicians have to wait for me to be genuine with it. As an actor, I don't have that luxury. You have to make it legit when they say 'action.'

The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy a beer.

Jonathan Kreisberg is a great musician whose playing and writing always tell a story. His formidable technique and intellect never get in the way, but only serve the agenda of the heart.

Nowadays it's hard to get somebody to invest the time - everybody wants to be famous rather than be a good musician.

I know this guy is a musician so I hope he can play us a tune that could get us the hell out of here.

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.

In fact, many musicians are the happiest when the artist and audience re-interpret or re-imagine the content of the songs.