Musician Quotes · Page 24

I didn't set out to be a touring musician.

— Jack Savoretti

It's important for all worship musicians to pour into young people.

— Mike Murray

I wear black on the outside 'Cause black is how I feel on the inside.

— Anonymous

[Bach is the] reason I became a musician

— Glenn Gould

All I ever thought about was music and being a musician.

— Dennis DeYoung

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

— Dick Dale

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

— Anonymous

Verbal communication about music is impossible except among musicians.

— Virgil Thomson

Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do.

— Miles Davis

All comics want to be musicians. There's a part of me that wants to be a serious musician. I love songs about…

— Sarah Silverman

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

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

— Britt Daniel

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

— Joe Louis Walker

Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no…

— Georgie Fame

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue…

— Mike Figgis

The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to the piano or a…

— Alfred Stieglitz

I think, for some artists, the fear of taking on a political identity stems from not wanting to be pigeonholed as political…

— Carrie Brownstein

I always loved the look of musicians. I've always admired them because they have a look - when I was growing up,…

— Frida Giannini

I couldn't say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind…

— Anthony Hopkins

I never really had male influences in my life. Steady, male influences. And that's what I wanna be for my family. As…

— Trey Songz

If you're just starting off as an artist, steal as much inspiration from everything you like, as much as you can. Take…

— Yukimi Nagano

I wouldn't call myself a leader. I don't want to lead people, I want to tempt them, I want to create a…

— Paul van Dyk

Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's unacceptable for…

— Nick Cave

People equate job titles to levels of creativity. We think that musicians are creative while accountants are not. Job title has nothing…

— Josh Linkner

For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad tiny tremors. The notes know no rest,…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

When you write a song you're more or less saying, "This is everyone. I think this is everyone." It doesn't necessarily have…

— Anthony Green

It is not a lack of spiritual experience that leads to failure, but a lack of working to keep our eyes focused…

— Oswald Chambers

Journalism is my first love. But music comes in a close second. What's important for me is that whatever you do, whatever…

— Lester Holt

My boyfriend's a musician, and I think when he's on stage is the only time he's not worrying. And so that's the…

— Lena Dunham

There used to be a club in new york called Bradley's - I've never been there, it closed in the 80's -…

— Jose James

It might be something as simple as saying the right word to the right person at the right time-and that could change…

— Herbie Hancock

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

— Victor Hugo

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

— Miroslav Vitous

“If I knew what to do I'd do more than write a song for you”

— Criss Jami

My family isn't posh; they're musicians.

— Audrey Niffenegger

“We play heavy metal because our lives are heavy metal.”

— Reda Zine

Yeah, I was with Jethro Tull for three weeks, so what?

— Tony Iommi

I'm a musician. Anything I've done as an actor has come from that.

— Harry Connick, Jr

I didn't really want to give up music.

— Bryan Ferry