Musician Quotes · Page 29

The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those…

— Danger Mouse

I'm a bred musician - this is generational. For me to just limit myself to rapping is a discredit to my bloodline.

— Scarface

My wife, Gayle, is a wonderful musician and singer. We share music, so it's a deep bond.

— Chick Corea

And at dawn, the drums still beat on the sleepless plain like an unstoppable heart.

— Jacques Roumain

Dance fascinates me, and it is perhaps the most enriching audio-visual realm for a musician. Film-making also fascinates me.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.

— Tori Amos

I'm definitely musician and storyteller. But I always like to take an active role in things I care about socially and environmentally.

— Ben Sollee

I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.

— Gary Burton

I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I'm tied to myself…

— Mick Jagger

My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a…

— Ziggy Marley

We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things,…

— Michel de Montaigne

I never minded being thought of as a pop star. People have always thought I wanted to be seen as a serious…

— George Michael

I went to Juilliard in New York and used to do cabarets just for fun. Occasionally, I would get together with a…

— Nicole Beharie

There's all these musicians in the world, and anybody that takes enough time to create a record or even think about the…

— Ryan Adams

The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the…

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western…

— T Bone Burnett

I criticized the whole American songwriting industry and the pop side of it and I was bitter about it. And I stepped…

— Marina and the Diamonds

Patti [ Scialfa] was an artist and a musician and she was a songwriter. And she was a lot like me in…

— Bruce Springsteen

I'm the perfect amount of guarded. I don't reveal too much, and I never reveal who the songs are about. They are…

— Kelly Clarkson

In a certain sense, these were lessons I learned by playing with Indian musicians. The rhythmic forms that they use are very…

— John McLaughlin

In reality everybody has got musical thoughts. If you are able to overcome the part of it which is muscle training, which…

— Jerry Garcia

It's definitely about the rhythm of the words and how they sound together, writing one sentence and then another and another and…

— Mary J. Miller

There are people who are really great musicians. I've met a lot of them. And I'm not a great musician. I'm adequate…

— David Duchovny

Making information free is survivable so long as only limited numbers of people are disenfranchised. As much as it pains me to…

— Jaron Lanier

A musician carries the music within him. He needs no specific instrument. he is the music.

— Marlo Morgan

I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.'

— Oscar Isaac

The only advice we gave Richie Faulkner was we wanted Richie to be his own guy. You have to let your musicians…

— Rob Halford

I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the…

— Laura Mvula

I would like to be able to collaborate. It's such an important thing as a musician. It stops your growth if you're…

— Sophie Thatcher

I think I'm more entertainer than musician. I like to get with the crowd, make this night special for them.

— George Benson

I don't just strictly sample. I build. I'm a musician: I play piano and drums, I read notes, I write music.

— AraabMuzik

The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel.

— Wynton Marsalis

I actually always wanted to end up somewhere in music, I just didn't know what.

— Lil Xan

Like many musicians, I don't look back much... only concentrate on what music I'm doing, and occasionally look ahead.

— Tony Levin

I'm just lucky to have the type of friends and musicians and people dedicated to my music that I do.

— Wynton Marsalis

If you're going to call yourself a musician, you have to go out and make music.

— Paolo Nutini

I'm one of those controversial celebs or whatever you want to call it, but I am actually a musician - people forget…

— Tulisa

“I've loved many women...I'm not going to lie to you, but it never works...vanity always gets in the way.”

— Cassandra Giovanni

Yeah, ever since I was super-young I had a lot of dreams - I wanted to be a musician, I wanted to…

— Finn Wolfhard

At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the…

— Daniel Ek