Musician Quotes · Page 3

Music and Wine are one.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

See, I'm not a very good musician.

— Jay Asher

Music proposes. Sound disposes.

— Babette Deutsch

“It was a real party of swells.”

— Elvis Costello

I'm a musician, first and foremost.

— Scarface

I was born with music inside me

— Ray Charles

I'm not a gangster. I'm a musician.

— Mike Dean

My musical career was an accident.

— Sade Adu

I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

As long as I'm still growing as a musician, it keeps me inspired.

— Bryce Dessner

Um, musicians are funnier you know, than actors on the whole.

— Tim Curry

Debussy--A pretty girl with one blue eye and one brown one.

— H. L. Mencken

I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.

— Kailash Kher

I just want to grow as a musician. that's why I do different languages.

— Neeti Mohan

Actors always want to be musicians, and musicians want to be actors

— Marilyn Manson

A musician's true talent is only tested through background music.

— Anirudh Ravichander

Chris Martin is more of a musician and hasn't really put himself out there as a television host or anything like that.

— Ian Astbury

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

— Britt Daniel

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

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

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

See it in terms of paint. We don't learn subject matter, we learn paint. The musician can play any score that is…

— Helen Van Wyk

My father slapped my thighs with a variety of meats until I began to cry and sulked in the corner. I later…

— Thom Yorke

I'm not a martyr, just a musician who dies for your sins. Oh, that's what a martyr is? Very well then, I…

— Thom Yorke

The biggest reward from that record was the enthusiasm everyone had to sing on it. The Grammy nominations and the chart positions…

— Chris Botti

At a certain age I just stopped arguing. I realized that there was no way [my father] could see, because for him…

— George Michael

A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you…

— Charlie Trotter

One thing, when you're an actor, you finish something and then you have to worry about what the next gig is. When…

— Chris Isaak

And this shall be for music when no one else is near, The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear!…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Your parents tell you that you can do anything that you want, but then you turn 20, and they're like "I think…

— Matias Tellez

I'm into old-time music; I'm not very interested in modern, popular music at all. And if I'm really into some particular old-time…

— Robert Crumb

You're a musician and you live and die by people responding to your music. It's a business just like anything else and…

— Marc Martel

I believe in the spiritual warfare. There are people who pick sides. The lord of this world is Satan. You can do…

— Stephen Baldwin

When I was 6 I thought that I wanted to be a musician - like a singer-songwriter. That's what I romantically envisioned…

— Andrew Garfield

I basically taught myself how to sing and play by copying records, and that's just how it was for me. I know…

— Susanna Hoffs

I don't think that those things [so called common practice] ever truly existed in the way that we like to believe that…

— Missy Mazzoli

I think right now is when we need to hear different voices coming out of all parts of the world. You can't…

— Michael Franti

Everybody goes up and does something in the private sector that they feel that they can do, and obviously I'm a musician…

— Sarah Brightman

I read to learn, tech myself stuff and teach myself math and do complex formulas, and it's very, very tough, but I…

— Jeff Kendrick

The most important thing to do as an artist is to get out of your comfort zone and work with different people:…

— Katie Noonan