Musician Quotes

The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective.

I've made a life and career as a professional musician.

I feel that musicians are in a fellowship, and that fellowship is a responsibility.

I think all musicians should understand that you have chosen not to be a soldier but a musician.

Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk about other people's music.

I'll leave it to other people to evaluate the legacy of my book, but I'm very moved when musicians tell me that they've been inspired by my book.

I just wanted to tell the story of a bunch of musicians who had never had their story told before. There's no preaching or theorizing.

I've been a musician my whole life. I'm really enjoying making music again.

Ive always enjoyed the enthusiasm of the best studio musicians and, over the years, have collected so many inspired contributions from them.

A conundrum of music is that music brings people together, yet to become a skilled musician involves a certain amount of lonely time in which you're just figuring it out, practicing.

They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.

I regard myself as a true American musician, and I play every style that is my heritage.

The point is that the arts are important enough to have influenced the greatest minds and talents we know. Albert Einstein said that if he were not a physicist, he would probably be a musician.

'SNL' is probably one of the premiere outlets that a musician can perform on that isn't obviously a music outlet.

Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.

There's no feeling as a musician better than being on stage, sharing music with strangers. People you have never met, singing along, and making that connection with somebody is so awesome.

It's important for all worship musicians to pour into young people.

Canada is a country of ingredients without a cuisine; we're a country with musicians without an indigenous instrument; Toronto's a city that doesn't even have a dish named after it.

Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do.

[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.

Sometimes I joke around that if I weren't a musician, I would be a power lifter. I don't think people expect it from me because I'm little.

I am a Slavic musician and it is deeply inside of me.

I know people who believe in ghosts but don’t believe in themselves. It’s kind of sad. Okay you don’t think you’ll ever make it as a musician, but last night you saw a translucent caveman.

I used to have a lot of envy for those musicians who have been universally loved.

There's a fairly extensive network of musicians on tour who are all trying to stay sober, and we generally reach out to each other and offer support when and where we can.

If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested.

Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.

I can't think of any musician or producer who has influenced me more than Brian Eno. From when he was in Roxy Music, producing Devo, the Talking Heads and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.

I honestly haven't thought much about what to play and where, perhaps i should...it seems like most musicians are better at that than I am.

One problem with a lot of musicians is that they remove themselves in a studio and make a record and assume people are going to pay attention to it just because they've made it.

I'm a weird, bald musician who makes records in his bedroom and lives in the Lower East Side.

I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.

From the moment I first heard Steve Laury play, I knew he was dangerous . . . He is an extremely gifted musician who makes great music! We go back 25 years and Steve will always be my dear friend.

I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff.

What a young musician's dream, to say, "Look at those chrome drums. Look at that 22-inch ride cymbal. I'll have those." It was one of those unparalleled exciting days of your life.

Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what.

I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.

I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way.

Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.

A devastating culmination of the elegant and the funky, a really sensational musician with enormous depth.

As for style, there is something about the way musicians dress-they seem to be able to create their own world within their fashion alone.

I'm going to get drunk and insult as many musicians from the 80's as is humanly possible.

I've never understood musicians who don't enjoy doing promotional interviews. I just can't believe it. I always think, 'Your life must have been so brilliant before you were in a band.'

I'm a musician because I love it and it's supposed to be fun.

I had success early on where I'm able to try to keep it fun, and I don't have to do things just for the sake of making a living, which a lot of my musician friends don't have that luxury of course.

Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.

Ive always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.

That's one of the things about being married to a couple of musicians, I have got great iPods. That's what I was left with -- an iPod each.

What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity

The Unity Band project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.