Musician Quotes

I'm on my feet and I'm doing what I love to do, and I'm in a profession, as a musician, where we can go on for as long as we can go on.

Everything that happens helps you grow, even if its hard to see right now.

You don't decide you're hip. It just happens that way.

I'm a musician and, just as the critics are hard on me, I'm hard on the critics.

I knew that I was going to have a life as a musician, because I always felt the pull. I don't remember ever having to make a choice.

I don't think you can learn to be a complete musician. That has to come from within, and it entails a lot of sacrifice.

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

The majority of juice-heads and winos and junkies arent musicians.

A genius! For 37 years I've practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!

As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like

Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician.

Worship the music, not the musicians.

It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.

The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians.

I'm not a musician - I'm a ham.

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.

I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.

I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.

[Bach is the] reason I became a musician

Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?

Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.

The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.

When people ask me how they should approach performance, I always tell them the professional musician should aspire to the state of the beginner.

A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums and said, Stay on the job, son.

Finding a good bus driver can be as important as finding a good musician.

As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything - I just enjoy music.

By the year 2000, I want to be the first Latin musician to play on the moon.

If you strive to become a good human being with the qualities of generosity, humility and having reverence for life...just maybe you'll become a great musician.

Ideally the point of music is community, not the player. Musicians are simply channels to link the audience to the music and to each other.

You've got to create the space, then fill it.

To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.

I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge.

Combing my hair doesn't make me a better musician.

So far I've been very, very fortunate because it appears that people like to hear the music I like to play. What more fortunate position can a musician be in?

Reps once took chances on art, History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals.

All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds.

We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.

Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.

To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.

We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

I don't think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it.

Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.

I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.

I have a buddy of mine who's a musician, and I play guitar and sing quite a bit with him.