Quotes about Musician

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. Votes: 4

Musician' is not a very respected title. I'm not a musician. Votes: 3

My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter. Votes: 3

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master. Votes: 2

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts. Votes: 2

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. Votes: 2

I'm a producer for fun. I'm not a professional schooled musician or anything. Votes: 2

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. Votes: 2

I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players. Votes: 2

Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician. Votes: 2

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Music itself is not going to let you down. Votes: 2

The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers. Votes: 2

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians. Votes: 2

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Votes: 2

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear. Votes: 2

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. Votes: 2

When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level Votes: 2

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time. Votes: 2

Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest. Votes: 2

If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician. Votes: 2

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something thats never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish. Votes: 2

I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws. Votes: 2

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is. Votes: 2

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. Votes: 2

When you act, you've got to be like a poet or a musician. It's not about evidence before court. It's not a forensic subject. It's poetry; it's a completely different place. Votes: 2

May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life. Votes: 2

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life. Votes: 2

For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy. Votes: 2

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers. Votes: 2

You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them. Votes: 2

No disrespect to any other god, but Shiva's an outsider god. He breaks the rules. He's a brilliant musician, a brilliant dancer; he treats his wife as an equal, and she opposes him many times, but he obsessively loves her. Votes: 2

Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer. Votes: 2

If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not? Votes: 2

I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come. Votes: 2

Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization. Votes: 2

Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament. Votes: 2

But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music. Votes: 2

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't. Votes: 2

Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music. My sister takes her ideas and fashions them into poems. My brother uses his ideas to help him understand science. I take my ideas and turn them into stories. Votes: 2

Every musician, their goal in life is to play music that people love, and I've accomplished my goal. I was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and left that chapter of my life and those people in the past. Good and bad, I've loved and am thankful for that chapter. Votes: 2

Remember this, son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens. Votes: 2

I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons. I didn't like the lessons very much, but I was enchanted by music. Music always transported me somewhere. Singing made feel good and being able to play the piano made me feel good. Votes: 2

I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond all doubt that we are master musicians of our instruments. Now what we have to do is employ our skill to tell the dramatic story of our people and what we've been through, Votes: 2

I don't really like to call myself a brand, and I don't like to think of myself as a brand. I'm a singer, a songwriter, a musician and a performer. And an actress, and all the other things that I do. When you add it all together, some might call it a brand, but that's not my focus. Votes: 2

Interestingly, I matured as a musician and as an artist before I matured as a man. What I mean by that is, I was ready to be completely vulnerable and honest with myself and unapologetic when it comes to how I express myself in my medium. But I wasn't as secure in doing that when it came to just being myself. Votes: 2

I don't know if One Direction will stand the test of time. I have a niece who goes crazy for them. But the only way to judge art is to wait and see if it becomes evergreen. This takes a bit of time. Adele is a very good musician and I'd like to sing with her. But, again, time will tell if her music will become evergreen. Votes: 2

I'm basically a musician. Votes: 0

Mose Allison is a beautiful musician. Votes: 0

Denise Donatelli is a musician's singer! Votes: 0

Everything is music for the born musician. Votes: 0

The sexiest woman musician is Alicia Keys. Votes: 0

I confess to being a frustrated musician. Votes: 0

Being an American musician means being adventurous. Votes: 0

I was a musician first before anything. Votes: 0

Practice like good musician; draw every day. Votes: 0

Jay Ashby is simply a great musician! Votes: 0

Being a musician is a noble profession. Votes: 0

Who told you I was a musician? Votes: 0

Feed the musician, and he's out of tune. Votes: 0

[Bach is the] reason I became a musician Votes: 0

Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer. Votes: 0

I've never been a jam-band sort of musician. Votes: 0

I'd rather be a musician than a rockstar. Votes: 0

I'm not a musician, I just play bass. Votes: 0

A poet is a musician who can't sing. Votes: 0

I'm not a musician - I'm a ham. Votes: 0

I'm just a musician and a record producer. Votes: 0

I'm a painter first, and a musician second. Votes: 0

The jazz musician’s function is to feel, Votes: 0

Music comes from the musician, not the instrument. Votes: 0

You're a musician: You play. That's what you do. Votes: 0

You're a musician, it is important that you suffer! Votes: 0

To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence. Votes: 0

Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician. Votes: 0

Combing my hair doesn't make me a better musician. Votes: 0

My only ambition is to grow as a musician. Votes: 0

I never really thought about becoming a professional musician. Votes: 0

As a musician usually music is your way out. Votes: 0

I always knew I wanted to be a musician. Votes: 0

I like Flea, I like him as a musician. Votes: 0

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician. Votes: 0

I am a musician, but I'm another type of musician. Votes: 0

Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician. Votes: 0

The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts. Votes: 0

Love, the supreme musician, is always playing in our souls Votes: 0

Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden! Votes: 0

Every musician liked Peggy Lee, but not the general public. Votes: 0

To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good. Votes: 0

There's more to being a musician than just making music. Votes: 0

I've made a life and career as a professional musician. Votes: 0

A musician cannot move others unless he, too, is moved. Votes: 0

An entrepreneur is like a musician creating a new song. Votes: 0

As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish. Votes: 0

An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician. Votes: 0

I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer. Votes: 0

I'm not a singer. I'm a musician, which is different. Votes: 0

I don't wave a flag for anything. I'm a musician. Votes: 0

I've been a musician longer than I've been an actor. Votes: 0

I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician. Votes: 0

I am a musician, ya know; music is my world. Votes: 0

I did everything I could to not be a musician Votes: 0

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician Votes: 0

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Votes: 0

I'm a great songwriter, but I'm not the most talented musician. Votes: 0

I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician. Votes: 0

KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask. Votes: 0

If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot Votes: 0

It was like a musician playing notes. Everything we trained worked. Votes: 0

I suppose I would still be a communicator, maybe a musician. Votes: 0

To be a drummer you also have to be a musician. Votes: 0

A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught Votes: 0

If I wasn't a musician, I would be a serial killer. Votes: 0

I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale. Votes: 0

If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop. Votes: 0

As a musician, I have always refrained from criticizing another artist. Votes: 0

I've also become much more the musician I've always wanted to be. Votes: 0

The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music. Votes: 0

It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice. Votes: 0

The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective. Votes: 0

The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at. Votes: 0

I am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being. Votes: 0

(For songwriters) Development of your facility as a musician is also important. Votes: 0

The musician has the most brothers, and the dancer the most sisters. Votes: 0

If I wasn't a musician... I think I'd just be endlessly traveling. Votes: 0

As a musician, you never understand why people connect with certain songs. Votes: 0

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. Votes: 0

A good musician can do more to change society than 30 average mayors. Votes: 0

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility. Votes: 0

I'm not a corny-ass booty freak! I'm the greatest musician of all-time. Votes: 0

In L.A. everyone is an actor. In Texas, everyone's a musician. Votes: 0

For a musician, music is the best way to unite with God. Votes: 0

I am a Slavic musician and it is deeply inside of me. Votes: 0

A, C, and G are the only chords any honest musician needs. Votes: 0

I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan. Votes: 0

I mean, I don't even think of myself as a musician, really. Votes: 0

The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play. Votes: 0

Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well. Votes: 0

All a musician can do is to get closer to the source. Votes: 0

I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician. Votes: 0

If it weren't for the Beatles, I would not be a musician. Votes: 0

I like to fancy myself more of a musician than anything else. Votes: 0

If you want to be a musician, study your craft. Study music. Votes: 0

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer. Votes: 0

I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard. Votes: 0

I've been a musician my whole life. I'm really enjoying making music again. Votes: 0

You decide to be a musician, you have to put in the time. Votes: 0

I grew up in a musical family, but nobody was a professional musician. Votes: 0

Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door. Votes: 0

Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand. Votes: 0

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds. Votes: 0

Being an actor is a much more structured life than being a musician. Votes: 0

I think every touring musician sacrifices aspects of their life to do it. Votes: 0

It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible. Votes: 0

I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man. Votes: 0

I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline. Votes: 0

I always see myself as much more of a musician than a celebrity. Votes: 0

I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing. Votes: 0

I'm a musician because I love it and it's supposed to be fun. Votes: 0

I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf. Votes: 0

But I needed to prove to everyone that I was a serious musician. Votes: 0

Most musicians don't write about being a musician cause most musicians aren't writers. Votes: 0

Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am. Votes: 0

I still have a fantasy of being a musician when I grow up. Votes: 0

Success is nice, but it shouldn't be the only reason why you're a musician. Votes: 0

Making music, if youre a real musician, you carry on, regardless in this world. Votes: 0

A musician's biography is written wherever he performs; everybody hears what he is playing. Votes: 0

The most sophisticated pop musician that I knew of and liked was Paul McCartney. Votes: 0

I'm a DJ, but I'm also a ridiculously high-grossing musician due to doing productions. Votes: 0

As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music. Votes: 0

A good musician should say: We can live without air but not without music! Votes: 0

Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician Votes: 0

What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician? Votes: 0

Finding a good bus driver can be as important as finding a good musician. Votes: 0

Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse. Votes: 0

Being a musician is a job - it is just a really fun one! Votes: 0

Not everyone deserves to be a musician, you get lucky enough to be one. Votes: 0

When you are so strongly drawn to music, you can't not be a musician. Votes: 0

I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician. Votes: 0

I don't know anyone on my mom's or dad's side that was a musician. Votes: 0

As a musician, you just want to be able to do what you love. Votes: 0

Not only am I a musician, but I'm a businessman and a family man. Votes: 0

When I hear a great musician, I can feel his life inside the music. Votes: 0

I write and play music. I'd like to be a musician at some point. Votes: 0

If you want to be a better musician, hang out with a computer coder. Votes: 0

I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff. Votes: 0

I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer and I love rock 'n' roll. Votes: 0

It was clear from the beginning that I was going to be a musician. Votes: 0

Not everyone deserves to be a musician, you get lucky enough to be one. Votes: 0

The whole process of this record was an education for me as a musician. Votes: 0

I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind. Votes: 0

If it takes me 10 years to be the musician I want to be, great. Votes: 0

I feel very honored to be playing with Bill Pierce. He's such a great musician. Votes: 0

I'm a much better musician than astronomer. I think the world got the right choice. Votes: 0

Spirituality is worthless if it's not practical. Music is my work. I am a musician. Votes: 0

I'm having to cope with the fact that some people might consider me a musician. Votes: 0

As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty. Votes: 0

Yes, I'm a musician. I also like to play with others, sometimes more, sometimes less. Votes: 0

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs Votes: 0

I signed up to be a musician, I want to perform, I want to sing. Votes: 0

I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician. Votes: 0

I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words. Votes: 0

Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business. Votes: 0

A musician must lift up the souls of the listeners, and take them towards space. Votes: 0

You can always boil down the life of a musician to touring, playing, and writing. Votes: 0

You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there. Votes: 0

More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context. Votes: 0

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. Votes: 0

A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits. Votes: 0

I personally feel that acting is not totally different from singing and being a musician. Votes: 0

I've been a musician since childhood, and music is my first love. I love it. Votes: 0

I always felt that the musician's job was to provide an alternative source of information. Votes: 0

To be a musician, you have to be honest... to be honest... to be honest. Votes: 0

I'm a musician. It's what I do! I wouldn't be too good at anything else. Votes: 0

[Louis Armstrong] was the only musician who ever lived, who can't be replaced by someone. Votes: 0

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs. Votes: 0

My dad was a jingle writer, and my mom was a jewelry designer and musician. Votes: 0

I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning. Votes: 0

Being a musician is a given for me-I didn't have much choice in the matter. Votes: 0

When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness. Votes: 0

I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point. Votes: 0

As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything - I just enjoy music. Votes: 0

In a lot of groups, you can change a musician, and it doesn't mean anything. Votes: 0

Being a musician doesn't take away your right as a citizen to speak your mind. Votes: 0

There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor. Votes: 0

I didn't decide to become a musician until the age of 15, which is quite late. Votes: 0

I never became primarily a musician! I've always been a wanderer and I'm always bored. Votes: 0

My name's Darren. I'm a musician, part time idiot. That's a full time job actually. Votes: 0

I love the life of a musician but I live the life of a bodybuilder. Votes: 0

There's a responsibility as a musician to do the music that you want to hear. Votes: 0

Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me. Votes: 0

A musician carries the music within him. He needs no specific instrument. he is the music. Votes: 0

Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling. Votes: 0

A very talented player and all around excellent musician. I love hearing his records on radio! Votes: 0

We all grew up idolizing another musician. That's how this works. That's how music is created. Votes: 0

I had abandoned my plans for priesthood and replaced them with dreams of being a musician. Votes: 0

I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players. Votes: 0

While my mother wanted me to be a musician, I wanted to become an electronic engineer. Votes: 0

A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence. Votes: 0

The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty. Votes: 0

I'm not trying to save the world. As a musician and artist, it just ain't me. Votes: 0

I download music just like anybody else, but it's a weird relationship when you're a musician. Votes: 0

It's important for me to be with a musician or someone who has a creative mind. Votes: 0

When I like a musician I want to see a picture or a video of them. Votes: 0

A musician can get lost to what he is in the session busines as it was. Votes: 0

A musician can get lost to what he is in the session busines as it was. Votes: 0

I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it. Votes: 0

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. -Frank Zappa, composer, musician, film director (1940-1993) Votes: 0

By the year 2000 I want to be the first latin musician to play on the moon. Votes: 0

I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician. Votes: 0

To be a good musician, you need to give people what they want, what they need. Votes: 0

Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do. Votes: 0

If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person. Votes: 0

Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money. Votes: 0

The more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become. Votes: 0

Only become a musician if there is absolutely no other way you can make a living. Votes: 0

I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician. Votes: 0

Music is my greatest love. If I could play an instrument I would be a musician. Votes: 0

I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician. Votes: 0

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness. Votes: 0

A devastating culmination of the elegant and the funky, a really sensational musician with enormous depth. Votes: 0

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance. Votes: 0

I have musician friends who play too much golf, and they're not as good at music anymore. Votes: 0

My husband is a musician, and 'Paste' is one of his favorite places to be interviewed by. Votes: 0

That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable. Votes: 0

Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums. Votes: 0

I was never planning on being a musician. It's basically a hobby that sprawled out of control. Votes: 0

It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music. Votes: 0

When it comes to touch and feel as a musician, style is infinitely more important than chops. Votes: 0

I've always considered it a great privilege to be a musician, I've never lost sight of that. Votes: 0

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter. Votes: 0

The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen. Votes: 0

As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit. Votes: 0

A lot of things inspire me. Music, for one; in addition to acting, I'm also a musician. Votes: 0

One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport. Votes: 0

My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish. Votes: 0

I'm a musician and, just as the critics are hard on me, I'm hard on the critics. Votes: 0

I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning. Votes: 0

To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet. Votes: 0

My wife, Gayle, is a wonderful musician and singer. We share music, so it's a deep bond. Votes: 0

I regard myself as a true American musician, and I play every style that is my heritage. Votes: 0

I really wanted to be a musician, but it turned out I had no sense of time. Votes: 0

Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician. Votes: 0

I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function. Votes: 0

Yes, for me audio-visual performance has its roots in my experience working as an improvising musician and composer. Votes: 0

I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician. Votes: 0

I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life. Votes: 0

If a man tells me he likes Mozart, I know in advance that he is a bad musician. Votes: 0

Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks. Votes: 0

I think all musicians should understand that you have chosen not to be a soldier but a musician. Votes: 0

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician. Votes: 0

Music can shoot through the musician like lightening through the sky if that music is unobstructed by thoughts. Votes: 0

I'm not in it for my health. I'm a musician and I wanna live the way I do. Votes: 0

I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier. Votes: 0

But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him. Votes: 0

To play the trumpet well, a musician can not let more than a few days pass without practicing. Votes: 0

There's zero correlation between owning music and being a greater music lover or musician than the next person. Votes: 0

I am not what I would consider truly a musician. I am an inventor. I am an innovator. Votes: 0

There is nothing normal about a musician's lifestyle; I don't have a nine-to-five job at the post office. Votes: 0

Edible names are what drives me as a musician. My next band will be called the Hot Dogs. Votes: 0

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing. Votes: 0

Kenny Burrell is a great musician and his music has helped to make me what I am today. Votes: 0

You can't be both a painter and a musician and master anything. You can't. And live a life. Votes: 0

Composers are in some ways the last frontier of musician that gets a paycheck for their musical services. Votes: 0

I am a musician who stopped working with music. Now I work with visual music, or audio-visual music. Votes: 0

My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew Votes: 0

I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily. Votes: 0

I'm a weird, bald musician who makes records in his bedroom and lives in the Lower East Side. Votes: 0

I'm a compulsive musician, but it's also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else. Votes: 0

Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always. Votes: 0

I love writing songs and being a musician, but you can't really buy the feeling of connecting with people. Votes: 0

Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that. Votes: 0

While not a musician, my father was a music agent for years before becoming pop culture icon Famous Amos. Votes: 0

It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist. Votes: 0

I was never interested in singing in the church or school. I was more interested in becoming a musician. Votes: 0

I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities. Votes: 0

When I was younger, I was always a musician that could play by ear better than I could analytically. Votes: 0

One musician listens to another musician, and you get inspired and then you do your thing, but it's yours. Votes: 0

I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician. Votes: 0

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar. Votes: 0

I'd been through crappy day jobs and stupid garage bands. I was determined to make it as a musician. Votes: 0

It was like an exponential weed. And people treated me as if I was an established musician. I wasn't. Votes: 0

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge. Votes: 0

A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh. Votes: 0

When I'm working behind a camera, I feel like I'm trying to achieve something like a jazz musician does. Votes: 0

I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked. Votes: 0

When a musician is conveying that fresh feeling, that's what appeals to me, even more so than the style. Votes: 0

I think that a musician is like a doctor, he's supposed to heal people and make them feel better. Votes: 0

There's nothing I like more than a writer who can sing, or a musician who has a book out. Votes: 0

I love being a drummer but I love being a musician in general and I love the Foo fighters. Votes: 0

I speak my mind and come from a place of conscience, as well as have fun as a musician. Votes: 0

I think one of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport. Votes: 0

You can never learn it all and I hope to continue my growth as a person and a musician Votes: 0

My dad was a musician. He was a singer and he played the guitar, so music was always around. Votes: 0

The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel. Votes: 0

The concern of the musician is to play the music. It is there demanding to be given sound to. Votes: 0

I am a musician, a songwriter, music fan. I live in New York City and I love my job. Votes: 0

I get to focus on being a musician sometimes, and I get to focus on being a vocalist sometimes. Votes: 0

The beauty of being a musician is writing songs. That's the best part. It's therapeutic and honest and private. Votes: 0

I don't think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it. Votes: 0

A musician's or artist's responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth, Votes: 0

I just consider myself lucky that I've been a musician this long and not had to find another job. Votes: 0

I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way. Votes: 0

I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works. Votes: 0

He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz. Votes: 0

Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made. Votes: 0

Only to the degree that a musician is healing himself or herself through music can a listener be healed. Votes: 0

I'm not a good enough musician to like completely master something in a couple of days and turn it around. Votes: 0

I think that virtuosity is the first sign of morality in a musician. It means you're serious enough to practice. Votes: 0

SNL' is probably one of the premiere outlets that a musician can perform on that isn't obviously a music outlet. Votes: 0

You might have asked [about skill] of an artist or a musician or whatever... but with me it just happens. Votes: 0

'SNL' is probably one of the premiere outlets that a musician can perform on that isn't obviously a music outlet. Votes: 0

Once the jazz musician learns all the fundamentals they can keep track of a lot of choices in an instant. Votes: 0

The longer you've been acting, normally, the better you are at it. As a musician, it doesn't work like that. Votes: 0

Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what. Votes: 0

I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together. Votes: 0

Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true. Votes: 0

Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man. Votes: 0

I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do. Votes: 0

If being a gangster were a prerequisite to being a musician, there'd be a lot less cello music, for example. Votes: 0

I have a buddy of mine who's a musician, and I play guitar and sing quite a bit with him. Votes: 0

I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman. Votes: 0

Bill Justis was a saxophone player, good musician, arranger, and friend of mine who had a big hit called Raunchy. Votes: 0

I worked full time jobs, basically doing manual labor until I could make enough money supporting myself as a musician. Votes: 0

I got by as a musician since day one. I don't live beyond my means. I have real cheap tastes. Votes: 0

I am a session guy and a studio musician and whatever you need me to do I will do it. Votes: 0

Well, I started out as a musician, so when I was about 10 years old, I was already in a band. Votes: 0

I'm a musician and I'm really blessed, because in my life if I can hold the sticks, I can play. Votes: 0

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician. Votes: 0

A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian. Votes: 0

Instead of going to college, I spent my time out on the road learning how to be a better musician. Votes: 0

I've always done a few things at once. I've always been a musician and an actor, at the same time. Votes: 0

Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician. Votes: 0

I've dated the sweet mama's boy, the musician rocker, the struggling artist - basically a lot of people without jobs." Votes: 0

I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful. Votes: 0

One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound. Votes: 0

The world has lost a great musician who will always be an inspiration to me and those at OBEY GIANT. Votes: 0

I've dated the sweet mama's boy, the musician rocker, the struggling artist - basically a lot of people without jobs. Votes: 0

If my name were Nubby Blues, I wouldn't be a jazz musician, I'd be a disabled Vietnam vet on welfare. Votes: 0

Art that only comes from the head isn't any good. Watch any good musician and you'll see what I mean. Votes: 0

I love being a musician. I love the lifestyle. But I think it's probably as difficult and frustrating as anything. Votes: 0

I don't think I'm even a musician. I don't play a lot of instruments, not really a soloist or anything. Votes: 0

I'm a musician - I'm always making music. Kobe Bryant is always playing ball. Well, Snoop Dogg is always recording. Votes: 0

A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special - spiritually or however you can Votes: 0

As a musician I'm kind of nomadic, Waldo-like. I show up in different places, and I'm witness to unbelievable things. Votes: 0

I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician. Votes: 0

You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste. Votes: 0

Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician. Votes: 0

I'd been trained as a classical musician, but also as a pop musician. My teacher made sure that everything was available. Votes: 0

In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal. Votes: 0

I don't know whether you [musician] can be all things to everybody, which is why there are different kinds of music. Votes: 0

Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician. Votes: 0

Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else. Votes: 0

The person I would trust the most is my mom. She's just really creative... She's a playwright and she's a musician. Votes: 0

I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn't trust your health to an electrician. Votes: 0

I try not to date musicians. It's all I've dated. Every guy I've dated is a musician. Obviously, it's not working. Votes: 0

Bill Justis was a saxophone player, good musician, arranger, and friend of mine who had a big hit called 'Raunchy.' Votes: 0

I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians. Votes: 0

The hardest thing for a musician to learn is how to play WITH people. That's what made the Basie rhythm section. Votes: 0

The ability for a woman to orally satisfy somebody in a rock band, that's important to a rock 'n' roll musician. Votes: 0

No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part. Votes: 0

Cause I felt I didn't have anything else to prove as a musician... and boy was I wrong about that one. Votes: 0

You can't just be a musician; you have to be an entertainer and perform and act just to hit the bar. Votes: 0

It's interesting, because as a musician, I don't feel like I need to be on the top of the pop charts. Votes: 0

As a musician, my job is incredibly easy, and it's a good one, but I've got to work at it occasionally. Votes: 0

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works. Votes: 0

Be a famous musician. Be a famous act or. Be a famous write r. Be a famous basketball player. Be famous. Votes: 0

A part of being a female musician is kind of getting past your looks and just honing in on the music. Votes: 0

When you find a waiter who is a waiter and not an actor, writer, musician or poet, you've found a jewel. Votes: 0

Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it. Votes: 0

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet. Votes: 0

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records. Votes: 0

I don't think of myself as "a lesbian musician." It's not one and alone. I think of myself as a musician. Votes: 0

Now as a musician, if you have it within you, you can create your own reality. Believe me, it's a novelty. Votes: 0

As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing. Votes: 0

I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out. Votes: 0

I did art; I made furniture. I didn't want to be a cliche - the Beatle's son who became a musician. Votes: 0

To me, as a musician, there aren't any boundaries genre-wise as far as what can you listen to to inspire you. Votes: 0

I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities. Votes: 0

A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting. Votes: 0

As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future. Votes: 0

I don't just strictly sample. I build. I'm a musician: I play piano and drums, I read notes, I write music. Votes: 0

I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me. Votes: 0

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds. Votes: 0

I'm a children's book writer, and my wife is a musician. We've raised a family on income from songs, performances and books. Votes: 0

I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that. Votes: 0

Of course the headspace for the young musician is whatever the guy who is paying you says, is right, but that's all. Votes: 0

Nowadays it's hard to get somebody to invest the time - everybody wants to be famous rather than be a good musician. Votes: 0

Chris Martin is more of a musician and hasn't really put himself out there as a television host or anything like that. Votes: 0

I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened. Votes: 0

I'm 90% performer, 10% musician. I've always said that Gossip are a band I would go see, not a band I would listen to. Votes: 0

I'm a musician. I play harmonica for relaxation. A good way to relax and entertain people. An excellent way to have fun. Votes: 0

I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician. Votes: 0

I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician. Votes: 0

He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard. Votes: 0

I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them. Votes: 0

Taylor is a musician who does things under her own name and tells her own stories-her songs and her albums are her. Votes: 0

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know? Votes: 0

You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville. Votes: 0

I started out with the guitar and was a studio musician back in the 50s, and then got shot in my finger. Votes: 0

Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing. Votes: 0

My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing. Votes: 0

Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no difference. Votes: 0

The musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is new. Votes: 0

What I like about being a musician is that I find the thing soothing, but I also give the soothing to other people; Votes: 0

It is curious how people go on believing that the musician knows less about what he is doing than those that judge him. Votes: 0

My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a character. Votes: 0

The goal as a musician, I think, is to be able to make music as a living for the rest of your life. Votes: 0

My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side. Votes: 0

Dude, if you want to be a great musician, you have to try heroin. You'll see. It's like being back in the womb. Votes: 0

My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side. Votes: 0

A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job. Votes: 0

I'm not more than a musician that enjoys what he does and a Colombian that dreams and fights for peace in his country. Votes: 0

You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I wish people would think of me as a musician who writes novels, instead of a novelist who writes music on the side. Votes: 0

I never looked at being a musician any different than waking up one day and wanting to be an accountant or a lawyer. Votes: 0

We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor. Votes: 0

My whole purpose of being a musician is to not follow the rules, so if I set rules for myself, I've already failed. Votes: 0

I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since. Votes: 0

I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it? Votes: 0

Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music. Votes: 0

My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician Votes: 0

At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music. Votes: 0

Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace, is drawn away from love of the things he tells to love of the telling... Votes: 0

I think I've always felt as a band and as a musician and a music business person, I've always felt like an outsider, period. Votes: 0

I think the death knell for any musician is getting a job that you like and pays enough that you just stay there forever. Votes: 0

And of course, the musician - if he's serious - always answers: My last album is my best, otherwise I wouldn't have done it. Votes: 0

One thing I always found hard to stomach over the past few years is that being a DJ or musician is a career opportunity. Votes: 0

If you are a musician, in my opinion there is no greater experience than to play for one's master. It is the highest calling. Votes: 0

I don't like heroin, unless you're a jazz musician and then you have to be on it because jazz is the sound of heroin. Votes: 0

The Daryls House thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record. Votes: 0

You know what you can gain when you sit down with the Moroccans. As a person and as a musician. That's how you grow. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that was that. Votes: 0

I don't look at music from the standpoint of being a musician; I look at it from the standpoint of being a human being. Votes: 0

Whenever I heard a musician do something that I could not explain, I went back to the theory in order to figure it out. Votes: 0

When I was seven years old, I was leading a quartet and trio, and that really laid the groundwork for me as a musician. Votes: 0

I played guitar when I was a kid, a little bit. I can tool around with a guitar, but I'm certainly not a musician. Votes: 0

My advice for young people is that, if you want to be a musician, the thing to do is practice eight hours a day. Votes: 0

If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard Votes: 0

I really like Katy Perry and the music she does. She's an amazing musician and it's an honour to be opening for her in London. Votes: 0

I know this guy is a musician so I hope he can play us a tune that could get us the hell out of here. Votes: 0

You are in a state of mixing, and you just live with it. There is not one musician who is completely happy with a mix. Votes: 0

As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music behind the notes. Votes: 0

When I was growing up and wanted to be a musician, the fantasy that I had of what the music industry was is so wrong. Votes: 0

Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with 'Stairway to Heaven.' Votes: 0

I have a hard time even calling myself a musician, but I still have to be involved in music in some capacity in my life. Votes: 0

My father slapped my thighs with a variety of meats until I began to cry and sulked in the corner. I later became a musician Votes: 0

I love music so much I love what I do. I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it. Votes: 0

My dad was a musician, and that was his first love, and I think probably, to be really honest, it was my first love as well. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The thing is that I'm an actor first, and in 'Once,' I was able to be a musician and a singer as well as an actor. Votes: 0

I feel blessed to be a musician, and I know it's a power given to me from God that I must use in a very positive way. Votes: 0

I wanted to be a musician but I didn't have the talent for it, so I decided I wanted to be famous, so I became an actor. Votes: 0

When I was a little boy, I told my dad, 'When I grow up, I want to be a musician.' My dad said: 'You can't do both, Son'. Votes: 0