Musician Quotes · Page 28

I knew I wanted to do something that wasn't just domestic and endless but I had no idea what and no inkling…

— Vashti Bunyan

Just look at the Old Testament. They didn't go out with the army first. They sent the musicians out.

— Michael W. Smith

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

— Nick Lowe

A few years ago my goal was to try and get the goddamned album made, which put me in a real bad…

— Kylie Minogue

When I listen to the engine of my car, I might say it sounds fine, but it would not occur to me…

— Jose Bergamin

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

— Alicia Keys

... I practice more than ever ... mostly scales and arpeggios ... and anything I can't do ...

— Julian Bream

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

— Amy Grant

I'm better at producing than I am at being a songwriter, but it doesn't change the fact that I still have a…

— John Congleton

From the moment I first heard Steve Laury play, I knew he was dangerous . . . He is an extremely gifted…

— Nathan East

Andy Rourke and I had been playing together from 14 or 15, and we had a very great musical chemistry. Andy's just…

— Johnny Marr

I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through…

— Eddie Redmayne

It was so much fun conducting an orchestra and watching the musicians' faces as some of Kanye's lyrics went by. They couldn't…

— Jon Brion

I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted…

— Gustav Mahler

Companies have to take risks to get new knowledge, in a manner similar to how jazz musicians take risks when they go…

— John Kao

I started to listen to Japanese jazz musicians when I went to high school. Some people I listened to were Yosuke Yamashita,…

— Hiromi

I don't view myself as a musician anymore - I view myself as a human being that functions as a musician when…

— Herbie Hancock

I was an apprentice television engineer when I decided to pack it up and go full-time, much to my father's disgust. But…

— Peter Ham

I played the vina until my heart turned into the same instrument. Then I offered this instrument to the Divine Musician, the…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

A lot of young artists and musicians that we work with, you think they're gonna want to come in and buy the…

— Paul Weller

I don't believe that the Democratic party has anything to do with the Left. We have two political parties in the US:…

— Tom Morello

An actor and a [theatre] director are both what I would call interpreters of work. We interpret a work, just as a…

— George Ogilvie

Once there was Louis Armstrong blowing his beautiful top in the muds of New Orleans; before him the mad musicians who had…

— Jack Kerouac

I know musicians who think that drumming and guitaring can be very meditative, but singing is different because when you think about…

— Brett Dennen

I'm not just a singer of funny songs; I am basically, first and foremost, a musician. I'm always recording all styles of…

— Ray Stevens

Cameron Esposito is a musician and podcaster from the States and she's hilarious.

— Julien Baker

I tried to play anything people would hire me to play, because I was a musician.

— J. J. Cale

As an improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business; I am in the…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.

— Robert Moog

I’ve always considered it a great privilege to be a musician, I’ve never lost sight of that.

— Natalie Merchant

This is going to sound corny, but I feel like I didn't choose music. Music chose me.

— Carly Pearce

My family didn't want me to be a musician, and therefore, they never helped out in my efforts.

— Yo Yo Honey Singh

If John Lennon is deported, I'm leaving too...with my musicians..and my marijuana.

— Art Garfunkel

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

— Jack Welpott

As far as artists and musicians, they don't retire. They might tour less.

— James Hetfield

The Internet had been a BIG help with my career. My advice to musicians, Internet is the key. It gets your music…

— Soulja Boy

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

— Wynton Marsalis

I'm all in favor of getting grants for musicians. Or any other good brand of Scotch.

— Pepper Adams

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

— Jeff Cooper

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

— Taryn Manning