Musician Quotes

I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing.

My mom really wanted me to be a musician so she gave me a guitar for my fifth birthday, but I didn't start playing till I was seven.

Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business.

Music is not everything in life. If a young musician looks at it that way, then he can just play his instrument like putting a nail into a wall.

At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.

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

Oh, I'm a martyr to music.

Metal musicians say dumb things sometimes.

A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.

It's hard to separate art from artists so transgender musicians will never be mainstream until transpeople are looked at as notable as maybe redheads.

Just look at the Old Testament. They didn't go out with the army first. They sent the musicians out.

He led quite a great life, ... He was an Old Testament figure railing against the establishment - a Jewish guy from New York who became a Buddhist, a poet, a musician.

I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.

I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.

A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's attention for two hours.

I feel like you're not a real musician or entertainer if you can't go into a room, pick up an instrument and entertain people.

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Music itself is not going to let you down.

He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz.

It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet.

Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.

Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world.

The ability for a woman to orally satisfy somebody in a rock band, that's important to a rock 'n' roll musician.

Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.

It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians

I don't wave a flag for anything. I'm a musician.

Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.

Only by pairing knowledge with inspiration will art evolve. Without these conditions any musician will remain a flawed artist, if one may speak of an artist at all.

Steve Lawson is a brilliant musician. I've known about him and listened to him for many years. He may not be one of the most famous bassists but he is definitely one of the most talented.

Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.

All professionals, whether physicists, economists or musicians, live by and for peer judgment, even when they are being paid by people who cannot tell the difference.

I feel like when you're an artist and you first come out - people don't want you to be as creative as you could possibly be as a musician. More so they really want you to stick to something.

Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food

I started out with the guitar and was a studio musician back in the 50s, and then got shot in my finger.

Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money.

If it weren't for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

The world has lost a great musician who will always be an inspiration to me and those at OBEY GIANT.

To be a drummer you also have to be a musician.

The only dreams that matter are the ones you have when you're awake.

Music is like having a conversation. All musicians inspire each other, and they're all geared to play something that matters.

Well, it'll always be disco/electro-pop. That's what I first wanted to do when I started out as a musician in 1977. It's only ever been dance-pop that I've wanted to do.

I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.

You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor.

...The key to playing with any group is you listen all the time and you listen more than you play.

I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.

I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.

I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.

I did everything I could to not be a musician.

You decide to be a musician, you have to put in the time.

Music can shoot through the musician like lightening through the sky if that music is unobstructed by thoughts.

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.