Musician Quotes

It is curious how people go on believing that the musician knows less about what he is doing than those that judge him.

Whether it's a designer or a musician, I think the most important thing for people who express things are to be unique. There should be something unique only to them.

I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.

Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.

A lot of people say, "What's the worst part about being an actor?" And the worst part is that you're not a musician.

A poet is a musician who can't sing.

By the time I was a senior in high school, I was constantly with my headphones, just making music all the time. People were calling me a "musician", and I found that so weird.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.

[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.

Music speaks from spirit to spirit and in that sense you could call it a true spiritual language.

Spirituality is worthless if it's not practical. Music is my work. I am a musician.

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

I knew nothing of the life of a real musician, of course, but somehow I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion.

I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.

I'm going to be a superstar musician, kill myself, and go out in a flame of glory.

I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.

It just seems like musicians want to sell a few records and put out a perfume line, and I think it's so sad that there are so many musicians who don't want to change the world.

What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?

I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician.

I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.

When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.

I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.

Even though it's become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it's still effective and it still has to be done.

Not all musicians believe in god but they all believe in Bach

When I was a kid, I always thought that I'd be a comic book artist. It took a long time to start thinking that I could be a musician.

I'm obsessively opposed to the typical.

It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.

Singers, musicians, and songwriters don't want to use the word "acting" because we want it to be more real than that - we want it to come from us: naturally, truly, really.

I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers.

Musicians are the architects of heaven.

Musicians own music because music owns them.

Lately, I'm spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream - almost dissolving into another world, musically.

Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.

To be a musician, you have to be honest... to be honest... to be honest.

I don't think you can be a good musician if you just listen to rap, or just the [type of music] you do. You gotta be open to other ideas.

Most customers, by the time the musicians reach the second set, are to some extent inebriated. They don't care what you play anyway.

Musicians have the power to influence people and along with movie makers, they can reach and influence more people than any group of people, more than scientists and certainly more than politicians.

I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.

I'm not in it for my health. I'm a musician and I wanna live the way I do.

The hardest thing for a musician to learn is how to play WITH people. That's what made the Basie rhythm section.

The living thing is not the clay molded by the potter, nor the harp played upon by the musician. It is the clay modeling itself.

I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that was that.

I'm not a musician, I just play bass.

I am a musician, but I'm another type of musician.

In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.

I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a "jazz musician" - it's a big responsibility.

I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.

A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?

As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.

A musician must lift up the souls of the listeners, and take them towards space.