Musician Quotes · Page 38

I really like Katy Perry and the music she does. She's an amazing musician and it's an honour to be opening for…

— Aino Jawo

Most musicians don't write about being a musician cause most musicians aren't writers.

— Dan Bejar

I did art; I made furniture. I didn't want to be a cliche - the Beatle's son who became a musician.

— James McCartney

The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.

— Duke Ellington

The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.

— Sun Ra

I'd been trained as a classical musician, but also as a pop musician. My teacher made sure that everything was available.

— Jeanine Tesori

I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.

— St. Vincent

I like to call myself a 360-degree artist. I'm a musician, but I have other things I do, too.

— Rita Ora

Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know…

— Christopher Guest

It's a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions like Napster are a lot more fun than…

— Courtney Love

I'm so into music that I just stop and listen, whenever there's music on. That's the problem with being a musician for…

— Derek Sivers

Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wantedto build dwellings for men in which they…

— Edvard Grieg

Art is my 'solo career' if you like. Musically, as a bass player, I depend on other musicians to play, whereas, with…

— Horace Panter

Arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, — finding things ready-made for…

— Edward Weston

I think the labyrinth is an interesting metaphor for our lives as musicians. We're always being drawn toward the center of it…

— Sting

I am a writer - that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the…

— Brian McKnight

I always say that you should just listen to it and see what you think it sounds like it is. I don't…

— Tinsel Korey

The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. No…

— Helen Keller

My dad is an engineer by trade but worked a lot with the people in the Indian film industry when I was…

— Meera Menon

I usually don't share the music with the musicians until right before they have to record their parts, because I hate discussing…

— Omar Rodriguez-Lopez

I think jazz is a beautiful, democratic music. It encourages musicians with very strong, and many times, very different points of view…

— Marcus Miller

Sometimes I would go on Sundays and play with Doc Cheatham. I was also playing in a band of teenagers led by…

— Jon Gordon

I know this might sound a little cliche but, I feel like everybody is searching for the same thing, and that is…

— Tyler Blackburn

I'm not a comedian. I'm not a show host. I'm a musician. That's why I've turned down offers to host the Grammy…

— Michael Jackson

I don't want to be looked at as just that guy with the best mixtape of the year. I want to be,…

— Logic

I think the death knell for any musician is getting a job that you like and pays enough that you just stay…

— Wesley Schultz

I'm trying everything I can not to be jaded 'cause I don't like jaded musicians.

— John Mayer

Lady Gaga is one of the most amazingly talented musicians to bring her gifts to humanity in a long time.

— Jared Polis

I'm 90% performer, 10% musician. I've always said that Gossip are a band I would go see, not a band I would listen to.

— Beth Ditto

My husband is a musician, and 'Paste' is one of his favorite places to be interviewed by.

— Claire Coffee

There was a very famous musician in our family. He was a great violinist, an internationally known teacher. He was Leopold Auer.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

I don't think of myself as "a lesbian musician." It's not one and alone. I think of myself as a musician.

— Michelle Chamuel

You don't want to make records so you can win a Grammy. You make records because you want to be a musician.

— Kurt Elling

More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context.

— Rosanne Cash

I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked.

— Tori Amos

I was a musician for years before I started doing this stuff. Show business was the only thing I ever considered.

— Miguel Ferrer

The more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become.

— Dan Bejar

Every musician writes about past relationships. And other than that, I can promise you, I have very little in common with Taylor…

— Tom Odell

Getting this caliber of musicians together [for "90 Millas" CD in September of 2007] is almost impossible to do again.

— Gloria Estefan

A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that…

— Franz Grillparzer