Musician Quotes · Page 32

Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.

— Mike Birbiglia

We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an…

— Lance Bass

We all grew up idolizing another musician. That's how this works. That's how music is created.

— Bruno Mars

What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?

— Nellie Melba

I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician.

— John Lydon

I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians.

— Michael Nyman

The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy…

— Joe Elliott

Solomon was a musician and David was a musician, so it's a profession that I take seriously.

— Sixto Rodriguez

When someone is a musician - trying to make a living off being a public figure - it's really easy for people…

— Mitski

I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up…

— Glenn Frey

I feel like I'm struggling now, and nearly every musician I know feels that way - even the most successful ones. I…

— Eleanor Friedberger

I started as a musician, then I was a singer. I sang with the band. Then I was an actor in the…

— Hal Linden

Music is not everything in life. If a young musician looks at it that way, then he can just play his instrument…

— Joe Zawinul

I have no illusions about being a genius musician. I pride myself on being a soldier, a warrior for jazz. I trained…

— Phil Woods

I hope America sees I am a goofy guy andI'm kind a crazy, I hope they see that I am a musician…

— Casey Abrams

I don't think my skill level is up there as a musician. I think I'm best at writing in general. The musicians…

— Ian Simpson

Sometimes I wonder if I shouldn't leaving being musician because I use to like it when noone came to see me playing,…

— Allan Holdsworth

I work with musicians whose opinions I respect and if they don't like something they don't hold back. They'll say, 'That really…

— Billy Joel

I do not believe, as do so many musicians, that genius should be left to fight its way to the light. Genius…

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Sometimes listening to music can motivate you. It can. But if you're a musician, that isn't always the way to get new…

— Tori Amos

I personally see myself as a musician in the first place. You know, I don't want to say I will be a…

— Zedd

There's the beauty of the stage. I don't like filmed theater or opera because you're kind of playing soccer in a hockey…

— Christoph Waltz

There were so many bands in New Orleans. But most of the musicians had day jobs, you know -- trades. They were…

— Zutty Singleton

We can and should place special emphasis on developing in our youth constructive incentives - a love of science, engineering, and math,…

— Ezra Taft Benson

I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated.

— Rick Springfield

Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life.

— Sonny Rollins

I know this guy is a musician so I hope he can play us a tune that could get us the hell…

— Joe Teti

As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get…

— Flea

Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.

— Robert Fripp

There was never really a Plan B for me - I always wanted to be a music artist.

— Tinashe

A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.

— Nick Cave

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

A musician must lift up the souls of the listeners, and take them towards space.

— Nikhil Banerjee

Drugs and sex go hand in hand when you're a rock and roll musician. Whereas if I were a violinist, it might…

— Slash

Up-and-coming musicians can easily reach out and find a loving teacher, and that's definitely what happened to me.

— Esperanza Spalding

Reinvention is the biggest gift I've been given. I've gone from graffiti artist to jewellery maker, urban musician to conductor.

— Goldie

Everyone thought my first album would be instrumental, but I didn't want to do it - it took me eight months to…

— Ry Cooder

I didn't take music seriously in the beginning. It just kind of a hobby to me. It was something that I love…

— Yuna

People who have gone, are still here, in us. Places we came from, are carried to the places we go.

— Anoushka Shankar

As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.

— Dizzy Gillespie