Musician Quotes

I'm a professional musician.

— Borns

Music can change the world.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“We're all weird.”

— John O'Callaghan

My ears are shot. I'm a musician.

— Killer Mike

I'm not actually a musician.

— Mats Wilander

Music chooses her musicians.

— Patricia Barber

Oh, I'm a martyr to music.

— Dylan Thomas

“Musicians are PHENOMENAL.”

— Stephanie Lahart

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

— Ritchie Blackmore

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

— Neal Schon

Light threatens, is active, is gone, so it is with a song.

— Hilda Doolittle

Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.

— James Cook

All the musicians that I know want to act.

— Juliette Lewis

Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician.

— Henry Rollins

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

— Evelyn Glennie

I'd love to play a musician in a film.

— Marianne Faithfull

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

— Gene Simmons

I think musicians are always supportive of each other because they want the groove to keep going on. They just basically want…

— Linda Ronstadt

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

— Gin Wigmore

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

— Bobby McFerrin

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

— Oscar Peterson

You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.

— Zakk Wylde

The hills are alive with the sound of music, with songs they have sung for a thousand years.

— Oscar Hammerstein II

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

— Ed O'Brien

My priorities now a a musician are so different now than they were as a kid. Everyone wants to be a rock…

— Blake Judd

I was very drawn to music of all types, from Beethoven to Jimi Hendrix. There were musicians and composers who obviously were…

— Frederick Lenz

If you are a musician and you dont show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people…

— Michael Schenker

What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It's the old thing, what you want written on…

— Keith Richards

Miranda [Hentoff] is a complete musician. She's a composer, a singer. She writes scripts along - with her projects. And she's a…

— Nat Hentoff

I gave up that idea of trying to make music that I thought other people would want. I just made music for…

— Daniel Powter

There's so much excellent new music around that I can't afford to buy it all and I haven't the time to review…

— Malcolm Wilson

I began to practise day and night, and the more I did, the more I was overwhelmed by the tremendous achievement of…

— Gilad Atzmon

Occasionally I hear a band that blows me away. For instance, there's a musician in Oakland named Weasel Walter who has a…

— Glenn Branca

The cliché of that sort of wasted, renegade, drugged-out musician of the '70s is kind of dead and gone now. And I…

— Chrissie Hynde

Being a musician, especially at the major label where you work for so long, it becomes a cycle. Write a record, make…

— Art Alexakis

When you say what is the difference between me and my stage name the idea is that as a musician you always…

— DJ Spooky

When I lived in New York, there wasn't as much TV or film around. I got asked to do a couple of…

— James Iha

I feel the theatre is the most unique one of all [the arts] for collaboration. I feel very fortunate to be in…

— Susan Stroman

I didn't come to Nashville to put on a cowboy hat and pretend to be a country singer. My attraction to Nashville…

— John Oates

From the small clubs of the Harlem Renaissance where he began playing saxophone to world tours for the biggest of the big…

— William J. Clinton