Musician Quotes

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days.

As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit.

My dad was a musician, and that was his first love, and I think probably, to be really honest, it was my first love as well.

I mean, I don't even think of myself as a musician, really.

Yes, I'm a musician. I also like to play with others, sometimes more, sometimes less.

I am a musician who stopped working with music. Now I work with visual music, or audio-visual music.

Yes, for me audio-visual performance has its roots in my experience working as an improvising musician and composer.

Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times.

When a street musician lowered his violin to inquire, 'Hey lovely, what you got there?' she said, 'Musicians who ask questions,' and kept on dragging.

We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.

The longer you've been acting, normally, the better you are at it. As a musician, it doesn't work like that.

I'm Larry Sanders. I'm a person. I'm a father. I'm an artist. I'm a writer. I'm a painter. I'm a musician. And sometimes I play basketball.

My brother and I grew up in a musical family. We have an older sister who sings and plays the piano. Our dad is a musician. Music was always a part of our lives.

I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the jazz music I love is there in my music.

When someone really respects and admires us as musicians to the extent that they want to work with us, it's really flattering.

I write and play music. I'd like to be a musician at some point.

The jazz musician's function is to feel.

One musician listens to another musician, and you get inspired and then you do your thing, but it's yours.

this is every musician's dream, to stand in front of an audience and not have to prove your credentials.

Bird's mind and fingers work with incredible speed. He can imply four chord changes in a melodic pattern where another musician would have trouble inserting two.

I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each.

I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something to do, and feel like a musician every day even if I wasn't working.

I like to work with different musicians and producers to change the feels of every release.

There's something extremely fragile about musicians, and that's their strength.

The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band.

As a musician, you never understand why people connect with certain songs.

There's something really natural to me about being what they call in the business a "hyphenate." Being a musician-actor or writer-musician-actor.

I'm going to be a better actor, or I'm going to try to be a better actor. I'm going to try to be a better musician. I'm going to be an artist instead of just this one thing.

Growing up with my dad being a musician, it seemed like a male centric world to me. I just didn't know many girls playing guitar.

You must remember I grew up around music. Three of my family were musicians.

My whole purpose of being a musician is to not follow the rules, so if I set rules for myself, I've already failed.

I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer - I'm going to push myself to do as many things as I can and see where it goes.

Musician' is not a very respected title. I'm not a musician.

As a producer, I like to bring in unexpected voices, unexpected musicians, like Watt and Joey Spampinato of NRBQ.

I would love to interview Dave Grohl. I just think he's an amazing musician, and I grew up listening to Nirvana, so I have so many questions about that.

You're a musician and you live and die by people responding to your music. It's a business just like anything else and if people don't like your music, that's kind of your problem.

I am a session guy and a studio musician and whatever you need me to do I will do it.

Actors always want to be musicians, and musicians want to be actors

When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life.

A musician carries the music within him. He needs no specific instrument. he is the music.

I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I want to try it again and again, and a lot of times my fellow musicians have to hold me back and say, "Nah, I think we got it."

I feel really different from other musicians.

I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities.

Your parents tell you that you can do anything that you want, but then you turn 20, and they're like "I think you should be a doctor, instead of a musician."

I played guitar when I was a kid, a little bit. I can tool around with a guitar, but I'm certainly not a musician.

People call me a bedroom electronic musician, which I suppose I am. But I hate most electronic music; I find it really boring.

I'm so proud that my offspring became a musician. I'm full of awe that we are able to have a whole family live the life of artists.

I still have a fantasy of being a musician when I grow up.

A good musician should say: We can live without air but not without music!