Musician Quotes

My family was all musicians. We jam all the time.

[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.

As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

I started working in music very young, I was raised by a family of musicians and performers, so I guess it was more second nature than making an actual decision.

People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself on the slopes, but I've always been a tomboy.

As a songwriter and musician, it strikes me that in music, a certain territorial nature when it comes to one's own autonomy around life and art is common and understood.

For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.

The Internet has definitely opened doors and leveled the playing field for musicians.

We wouldn't be artists, writers, painters, musicians, if we weren't sensitive.

I think some of the musicians are more like punk rock musicians. It's like an art as opposed to being a musician. It's definitely more radical psychedelic bands, more than anything.

There isn't a difference between how I feel in the world and how I feel as a musician, or someone who writes. They are one in the same. It's just a different presentation.

I'm definitely a victim of some weird twisted form of not really relating to female musicians.

A part of being a female musician is kind of getting past your looks and just honing in on the music.

Growing around great musicians, you just can't help it. I identified with it immediately. It was something that was so natural to me that when I started singing, it was almost like speaking.

Every young person is going to be inspired to be a maker from now on. It's like how everyone used to want to be a musician, an actor, an athlete -- but a maker is what people are going to want to be.

If you want to be a better musician, hang out with a computer coder.

A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.

Everything that I do is limitation and complete intuition. I'm a human being. I'm not a musician. I'm not an entertainer. I don't know anything!

I think filmmakers all secretly wanna be musicians and all musicians secretly wanna be filmmakers.

As a musician I'm kind of nomadic, Waldo-like. I show up in different places, and I'm witness to unbelievable things.

Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes.

Some people don't listen to my music because they say that I am an artist. And some don't want to go to my gallery shows, because they say I am a musician.

My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.

Clay Cook is a first class musician. Tender tormented genius here in 'North Star'. I will kill him if he leaves my band and he knows it. Great record.

I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music.

When I was a kid I wanted to be a musician. I used to play the trumpet. I practiced all the time, but I got braces and I couldn't play it anymore, so I had all of this free time.

I can feel my father's spirit within me. I can feel similarities within us from the artistic perspective from being a musician. We have a lot of similarities.

It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.

To me, music and fashion are the same thing. A good designer is the same as an incredible musician, and the two go hand in hand.

It's interesting, because as a musician, I don't feel like I need to be on the top of the pop charts.

I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.

I have a music career as well, so I was going to either be an actress or a musician. Then, I did both. But, I was always going to do something creative.

You can take and nail two sticks together like they've never been nailed together before and some fool will buy it.

Everyone wanted me to be the bad boy, the label wanted it, the publicists wanted it, but I was just trying to be myself.

If I knew what to doI'd do more than write a song for you

They all believed in him because of the authenticity of his musical talent and his faith in it.

Marketing is so powerful that it can make even an extremely untalented musician a one-hundred-hits wonder.

The world accommodates you for fitting in, but only rewards you for standing out.

A real musician ain’t gonna choose his own guitar like an evil master choosing his slave. The guitar will choose his master and when he does, you’ll know it.

Music is nectar for the soul.

Music is what our soul sounds like when it sings.

It is by continuing to put out good work that the artist best shows his gratitude.

I like the smell of my Grandma's soap - I used to sit in the bath and eat it.

I guess in this culture of ever-shortening attention spans, it's good if a song can lift us out of the madness, even if only for a few minutes.

When you scratch these guitars, they bleed.

There’s secrets hiding inside this six-string just waitin’ for somebody to find ‘em and turn ‘em into music.

When can you understand that the music you play is very good? It is when people look at you but see no one, no one but the music!

It’s the lifestyle that’s being packaged and sold rather than the actual meaning.

We love music deeply, but why? Put simply: music makes lives, shapes lives, expresses all shades and stages of life - and even saves lives.

It was a real party of swells.