Musician Quotes
It's very interesting for me to listen to music with my wife. She's not a musician but she very often makes comments about pieces in ways that are similar to what I'm thinking.
My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.
I always thought that pop groups were going to be made up in the 21st century. It wouldn't be four musicians, as such. Especially in the online world, with the worlds that are opening up.
Musicians have made incredible contributions to the conservation and environmental movement and continue to do so, more than ever.
I just consider myself lucky that I've been a musician this long and not had to find another job.
I love music and I love musicians. I separate them. I'm a big fan of Lily Allen's music, but I'm not a fan of her personality. I differentiate the two.
If you're making money people don't think you're playing Jazz. When you're not making money they think you're a great Jazz musician.
A model wears clothes and looks good, which is very passive. It's not like a musician promoting a new album. You don't have to read about it.
To me, groups of musicians playing together, not fighting each other, but playing a groove together is one of the most exciting things to listen to.
I've always had a problem within myself of feeling that people didn't really see me as a musician and I'm out to get a bit of musical credibility.
I've been so used to being supported by musicians, and I don't class myself as a particularly adept musician on instruments. I think I'm a songwriter.
As a musician, I know that it'll take time for me to get to the ranks of an established artiste. Nevertheless, I'm very happy that people are appreciating my music.
There's a lot of variety of musicians in Korea. I cannot say they are the best in the world, but I can say that Korean artists are really dynamic artists, so I am going to show that from now on.
I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness.
Musicians tell me, if what I'm doing is right, they should never have gone to school.
I just look up to anyone who made music back then because you really had to be a musician. There were no samples or drum machines. Those people back in the day paved the way for people like me.
I have musician friends who play too much golf, and they're not as good at music anymore.
Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.
I have a deep respect for musicians, and I feel like I would want to be so prepared and so well-educated and deep in the process before I ever release anything.
Bill Justis was a saxophone player, good musician, arranger, and friend of mine who had a big hit called Raunchy.
Being a musician is to live, not to survive. Surviving is going to work every day and giving up your liberty and your time. When you do music, it's a free life.
I'm a musician and I'm really blessed, because in my life if I can hold the sticks, I can play.
But God has a few of us to whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.
I don't do album covers or CD covers for groups or musicians I don't like or have no interest in.
The concern of the musician is to play the music. It is there demanding to be given sound to.
That's a skill that I'm proud of: to be able to be a jazz musician and go a bit crazy sometimes and other times be able to pull it all in and lay it down like a track.
There is nothing normal about a musician's lifestyle; I don't have a nine-to-five job at the post office.
I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.
If you make money back from your record, you're doing it smart. It's an expensive hobby. I'm lucky enough to still make a living as a musician through live work and odd bits of royalties.
The musicians are good and their music is catchy - it pulls the kids in in droves. Mike Bickle admitted to me that the music was a big part of their success at attracting young people.
Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums.
I have never imagined doing anything other than football, but now, thinking about it coldly, if I hadn't been a footballer, I would have been a musician.
Most musicians count at the beginning, and never count and talk to their musicians after that. They only talk to them at the end of the song. But I would count with them and talk.
When I was recording from '70 to '82, I always played piano and laid the tracks down. But I used to talk to the other musicians while the track was playing.
There was a lot of stuff happening in Havana that was being heard and appreciated by New Orleans musicians because of this situation. And vice versa.
As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
My criticism hasn't necessarily been informed by the critics I've read. The conversations I've had with friends and fellow musicians have shaped my thinking more than the work of any critic.
It's weird. People want you to know that they write. They want you to know they're a musician, rather than making music or making stories. It's the strangest thing.
Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.