I'm not saying I'm the bee's knees. But I am a legitimate musician. — Kristian Nairn Copy Share Image
My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility. — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
There was never really a Plan B for me - I always wanted to be a music artist. — Tinashe Copy Share Image
Colorism and racism don't stop when you're a musician or when you have wealth or when you're in any given position. — Chance The Rapper Copy Share Image
A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians. — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
Reinvention is the biggest gift I've been given. I've gone from graffiti artist to jewellery maker, urban musician to conductor. — Goldie Copy Share Image
Everyone thought my first album would be instrumental, but I didn't want to do it - it took me eight months to… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
I didn't take music seriously in the beginning. It just kind of a hobby to me. It was something that I love… — Yuna Copy Share Image
Up-and-coming musicians can easily reach out and find a loving teacher, and that's definitely what happened to me. — Esperanza Spalding Copy Share Image
I had a chance to play with the best musicians that were coming through because I was pretty good myself or else… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
I started out as a folk singer, and kinda got sidetracked playin' honky tonks and such, but I was always a working… — Ray Wylie Hubbard Copy Share Image
By the time I was a senior in high school, I was constantly with my headphones, just making music all the time.… — Nicolas Jaar Copy Share Image
I'm a folk preacher. A folk therapist. A folk musician. I come from authentically that which is of my experience. Therefore, the… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
I sat in at every club in New York City, jamming with musicians, because it felt right - and because it felt… — Ray Conniff Copy Share Image
If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
My father, my uncles, my aunts, from my father's side and my mother's side... they were all professional musicians. My father was… — Lalo Schifrin Copy Share Image
It's always surprised me that mainstream America had the good taste to like R.E.M. It doesn't have the digestible quality the general… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
My attitude towards my time as a musician, is that I really wanted to completely reinvent myself and not be one of… — Kurt Ralske Copy Share Image
Learning to play the guitar is a combination of mental and motor skill acquisition. And to develop motor skill, repetition is essential...… — Howard Roberts Copy Share Image
In a certain sense, these were lessons I learned by playing with Indian musicians. The rhythmic forms that they use are very… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
In reality everybody has got musical thoughts. If you are able to overcome the part of it which is muscle training, which… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When you make something, if you are a painter or a writer, a degree, or a sculptor or whatever or a musician,… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
Our nights didn't begin until after noon. Because in the old days, you'd start Birdland at 8:30 or 9 pm and play… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
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