Musician Quotes · Page 18

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

— Joshua Bell

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

— Lydia Lunch

Every musician that comes along teaches me something.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians.

— Dave Brubeck

If I could be a musician, I'd do it. I love singing.

— Rebecca Hall

Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes.

— Yoko Ono

I love the life of a musician but I live the life of a bodybuilder.

— Warren Cuccurullo

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

— Howard Roberts

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.

— Paul Westerberg

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

— Billy Joel

If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it.…

— Paul Stanley

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

— Grant Evans

In my headphones, I led a life of romance and incident and intrigue, none of which had anything to do with the…

— Rob Sheffield

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

— Dr. John

I never thought being a musician would be something I could make a career out of.

— Vidya Vox

Touring is my favorite part of being a musician. All the places I've traveled and lived affect me in many different ways.…

— Elle King

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

— Chris Cornell

I feel like as musicians we need to fight the Spotify thing. I feel that in some ways what’s happening in the…

— Thom Yorke

Dancing is very important to people who play music with a beat. I think that people who don't dance, or who never…

— Duke Ellington

The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it…

— Sir Arthur Sullivan

There's no reason to stop. Who knows what's around the bend? To participate, meet new people. It's mostly other musicians and people…

— Stephen Malkmus

I've never been really interested in music, classical or otherwise, where the craft is more important than the result. I realized quickly…

— Anna Meredith

I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did.…

— Cat Stevens

Musicians always want to sacrifice our creativity to get involved in environmental issues or political activism of some sort - to reduce…

— Eyvind Kang

Tom [Courtenay] and Albert Finney met Ron Harwood on the dresser, so that's how it started. It's a wonderful documentary. It's called…

— Dustin Hoffman

Being a part of the crowd with incredible musicians onstage summoning the muse and delivering that to us - doesn't matter if…

— Patrick Fabian

Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the…

— James Whistler

I'd always meant to become a musician. I'd just never gotten around to it. And my daughter being born, I was like,…

— Jonathan Coulton

Basically, this industry is mostly run by men, and I think women have a harder time...I've had enough of the "Women in…

— Princess Superstar

This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and…

— Anonymous

My advice to women who habitually gravitate toward musicians is that they learn how to play an instrument and start making music…

— Julie Klausner

Still, I wonder if more women artists, musicians and writers aren't household names because we don't have enough faith in our own…

— Anonymous

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

— Siobhan Fahey

I've never viewed myself as 'just' a musician or singer.

— Janelle Monae

Some people collect this or that. I'm a musician; I collect guitars.

— Rick Nielsen

Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.

— Rudolf Carnap

“I didn't do music to live; I lived so that I could do music.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

My brother is a musician and I'm in tennis.

— Patrick Mouratoglou

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

— Ian Paice

Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.

— Horace Walpole