Musician Quotes · Page 45

Pretty much every artist in Scotland - musician, writer, poet, actor - they're all part of a thing called the National Collective.

— Roddy Woomble

The Red Comyns had always done well behind the throne. The king was but an instrument, as his father used to say.…

— Robyn Young

All of the musicians when I was young used to always say you had to tell a story when you're a musician.

— Dave Holland

You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves…

— Bob Marley

It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.

— Ellie Goulding

The big corporations and the big companies turned musicians into factory workers on an assembly line.

— Ray Davies

Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician

— Wynton Marsalis

I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in…

— Ray Stevens

My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor.…

— Bryce Courtenay

Don't cheat yourself out of music. Music is one thing. The music business is another thing. Save enough of yourself to keep…

— Bill Withers

I don't really like to call myself a brand, and I don't like to think of myself as a brand. I'm a…

— Beyonce Knowles

I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hard-core bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians…

— Bruce Springsteen

Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen…

— George Bernard Shaw

When I perform, I don’t think about the haters, the Internet trolls, or anyone else. I care about giving the person in…

— Steve Aoki

As the musician straineth his strings, and yet he breaketh none of them, but maketh thereby a sweeter melody and better concord;…

— Daniel Cawdry

I claimed identity as Jewish musicians for political reasons, because most of us were touring in Germany and, at this time, twelve…

— Marc Ribot

Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and…

— Anais Nin

Poetry can explain individuals to ourselves, and change our attitudes, and help us see the complexity of the world, but the kind…

— Stephen Burt

Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory; practice must settle the habit of doing,…

— John Locke

The best musicians in the world were raised on the same kind of music I was raised on and that is black,…

— Ted Nugent

If I had lady-spider legs, I would weave a sky where the stars lined up. Matresses would be tied down tight to…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

I have a musician friend who, after reading Mountains, told me, "When I read the book, I wanted to quit music altogether…

— Regine Chassagne

Artists have been used over and over again since the early 1980s as the legitimizers of a neighborhood in New York. And…

— Sharon Zukin

When the film and music industries declined in the wake of increasingly conservative Muslim laws and social customs in Pakistan, many of…

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

What I like about being a musician is that I find the thing soothing, but I also give the soothing to other…

— Sinead O'Connor

I never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist.

— Pete Seeger

I don't play for the guitarists in the audience. I play for the musicians.

— Frank Gambale

A genius! For 37 years I've practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!

— Pablo de Sarasate

We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians.

— Khalil Gibran

I wanted to be a writer since I was a little girl - long before I was a musician and a songwriter.

— Juliana Hatfield

You kind of hope as a musician that you get some recognition for what you do, and when you do, it's nice.…

— Alex Clare

You don't find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn't mean to say you can't be really good.

— Jimmy Page

Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with [referring to crystal methamphetamines]”

— Fergie

I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.

— Zooey Deschanel

When I was boy, all I ever wanted to be was a musician. I'm so grateful I get to do it.

— James Bowen

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin,…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.

— Dodie Smith

As a producer, I like to bring in unexpected voices, unexpected musicians, like Watt and Joey Spampinato of NRBQ.

— M. Ward

I never sought out a record deal. It caught me with my pants down. I was just a musician doing my thing,…

— Jamie Cullum