Musician Quotes

1. "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."
Author: Aaron Johnson

2. "Look at him he's just now getting ready and dressed and its 6 fucking minutes to the show! God fucking musicians."
Author: Alan Cumming

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

4. "...one or both of those babies could be president one day. Or they could discover the cure for a terrible disease, or one could be a famous musician or even a preacher.' I stopped and considered for a minute, wondering what would impress her more than that. 'Or just be fine and decent men or women, or man and woman, who would be a blessing to you in your old age. There's a purpose for every soul that comes into this world..."
Author: Ann B. Ross

5. "Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out."
Author: Beck

6. "If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that's based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you're down to about 10 people or so."
Author: Branford Marsalis

7. "Artist paint images unseen, musicians create sounds that emerge from silence, and authors write from a synthetic point of view about a world that can never exist."
Author: Carl Henegan

8. "For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal."
Author: Charles Hazlewood

9. "I got by as a musician since day one. I don't live beyond my means. I have real cheap tastes."
Author: Chris Isaak

10. "Whenever an art form loses its fire, when it gets weakened by intellectual inbreeding and first principles fade into stale tradition, a radical fringe eventually appears to blow it up and rebuild from the rubble. Young Gun ultrarunners were like Lost Generation writers in the '20s, Beat poets in the '50s, and rock musicians in the '60s: they were poor and ignored and free from all expectations and inhibitions. They were body artists, playing with the palette of human endurance."
Author: Christopher McDougall

11. "It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians."
Author: Dan Fogelberg

12. "I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It made life a lot easier knowing what I was aiming for."
Author: Dan Hawkins

13. "My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people."
Author: Dana Spiotta

14. "I played with so many musicians and some of the musicians would have something I want. I steal a lot of them, and I mash it up, I mash it up into my chords."
Author: David Edwards

15. "The glances musicians exchange, when music is effortless, that was what he wanted from Milly, that intimacy."
Author: David Mitchell

16. "I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard."
Author: Dick Dale

17. "I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men."
Author: Eric Clapton

18. "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."
Author: Flea

19. "I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician."
Author: Flea

20. "I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because you want to get along with whatever record company you're dealing with. I don't want to be flaky. I don't want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician."
Author: Frank Black

21. "I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician."
Author: Frankie Avalon

22. "I dare to think that it is this outsized reality, and not just its literary expression, that has deserved the attention of the Swedish Academy of Letters. A reality not of paper, but one that lives within us and determines each instant of our countless daily deaths, and that nourishes a source of insatiable creativity, full of sorrow and beauty, of which this roving and nostalgic Colombian is but one cipher more, singled out by fortune. Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of imagination, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable. This, my friends, is the crux of our solitude."
Author: Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

23. "Still, I wonder if more women artists, musicians and writers aren't household names because we don't have enough faith in our own pursuits to give ourselves the time we desperately need to be transformed by a creative vision. Maybe that glass ceiling isn't really made of glass at all, but of sticky little fingers, dishes piled in the sink, and mortgages that demand two incomes."
Author: Holly Robinson

24. "At the art college in Edinburgh someone arranged for some London groups to come up and play. I was in a supporting band, with Bernie Green I think. Derek Bailey was one of the visiting musicians. He seemed to like my playing and asked me to come down to London."
Author: Jamie Muir

25. "One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound."
Author: Jerry Cantrell

26. "Kansas City, I would say, did more for jazz music, black music, than any other influence at all. Almost all their joints that they had there, they used black bands. Most musicians who amounted to anything, they would flock to Kansas City because that's the place where jobs were plentiful."
Author: Jesse Stone

27. "Musicians, like golfers, have to put their minds in the right place – trusting, confident, enjoying the pressure, being in present. And so forth. Otherwise, no amount of practice or "Time management" will make them better. The same is true in all professions: if you're stuck in the Training Mindset, evaluating yourself, or thinking in the past or future, you will not perform up to your potential. You will waste a lot of time, be an inefficient performer, and likely assume you need to manage your time better. In reality you need to manage your thinking better."
Author: John Eliot

28. "At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds."
Author: John McLaughlin

29. "My advice to women who habitually gravitate toward musicians is that they learn how to play an instrument and start making music themselves. Not only will they see that it's not that hard, but sometimes I think women just want to be the very thing they think they want to sleep with. Because if you're bright enough--no offense, Tawny Kitaen--sleeping with a musician probably won't be enough for you to feel good about yourself. Even if he writes you a song for your birthday. Don't you know that a musician who writes a song for you is like a baker you're dating making you a cake? Aim higher."
Author: Julie Klausner

30. "THE GODS was my first professional band and I learned a lot during that time. It was very cool playing with so many great musicians as it helped me to learn."
Author: Ken Hensley

31. "Yes, I'm a musician. I also like to play with others, sometimes more, sometimes less."
Author: Klaus Schulze

32. "I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each."
Author: Les Baxter

33. "I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer - I'm going to push myself to do as many things as I can and see where it goes."
Author: Lucas Grabeel

34. "I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities."
Author: Mary Timony

35. "But I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me, and I've always been able to do more than you necessarily hear with every band I've ever played in."
Author: Matt Cameron

36. "I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free."
Author: Nat Wolff

37. "Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song."
Author: Neil Diamond

38. "If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians."
Author: Neville Marriner

39. "He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard."
Author: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

40. "A poet is a musician that 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."
Author: Patrick Rothfuss

41. "Combing my hair doesn't make me a better musician."
Author: Ritchie Blackmore

42. "I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians."
Author: Robert Wyatt

43. "In a conversation with the master jazz musician and Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Wynton Marsalis, he told me, "You need to have some restrictions in jazz. Anyone can improvise with no restrictions, but that's not jazz. Jazz always has some restrictions. Otherwise it might sound like noise." The ability to improvise, he said, comes from fundamental knowledge, and this knowledge "limits the choices you can make and will make"
Author: Sheena Iyengar

44. "I confess to being a frustrated musician."
Author: Stella McCartney

45. "Musicians are always eclectic. Musicians are always curious and hungry for new things."
Author: Stew

46. "Wait." "Stop?" I bit my lip and nodded. "Stop everything, or just go no further?" "Just...just no further." "Done." He gathered me into his arms and kissed me, one hand tangled in my hair and the other one caressing down my back, our hearts pulsing out a cadence that the musician in me translated into a concert of lust."
Author: Tammara Webber

47. "My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew."
Author: Taryn Manning

48. "Musicians from the beginning of time have been there to express the mood and the musical feelings in the air for whatever's going on in that particular culture. It's the greatest joy as a musician to be able to translate that, be part of something and watch the scenery around you."
Author: Trey Anastasio

49. "It's not right, man," Jay said, following my stare. "Some guys have all the luck.""What?" I finally broke my trance to look at Jay."That guy, the drummer? Get this. He's a killer musician, he gets tons of chicks, his dad's loaded, and as if that wasn't enough, he's got a friggin' English accent!"I had to smile at Jay's mix of envy and admiration."What's his name?" I hollered as the third song started."Kaidan Rowe. Oh, and that's another thing. A cool name! Bastard.""How do you spell it?" I asked. It sounded like Ky-den.Jay spelled it for me. "It's A-I, like Thai food," he explained.Kai, like Thai, only yummier. Gah! Who was this girl invading my brain?"
Author: Wendy Higgins

50. "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."
Author: Zola Jesus

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