Musician Quotes · Page 47

I'd hit thirty, I'd sort of failed as a musician, I'd failed as an artist I felt at the time.

— Paul Kaye

Then you've a hunch what the music meant . . . hunger and night and the stars.

— Robert W. Service

Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.

— Chico Hamilton

Kenny Burrell is a great musician and his music has helped to make me what I am today.

— Stevie Wonder

I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed.

— Elton John

By and large, musicians respect New York audiences, and also are greatly concerned about New York reviews.

— Harold C. Schonberg

A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.

— Mary Astor

My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural…

— Ethel Merman

Not only did I get to play with these great international musicians, but I also had the opportunity to jam with the…

— Jeff Healey

If you are having trouble making a chord, get a book, that is how I learned. There are guitar tuning apps so…

— Joan Jett

I don't go around, the way many musicians do, with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just…

— Herbie Hancock

Art has been good for my soul. And it's been good for my brain. I think I'm a better painter now than…

— Anne Sweeney

I've always wanted to do a cutesy little song with a guy and girl singing back and forth and thought that Regina…

— Brendon Urie

I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that…

— Nick Cave

I'm a man who believes that right is right and wrong is wrong. Treat me right, and I will give you my…

— Johnny Paycheck

Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music.…

— Avi

An actor uses his body as a tool and an instrument. In the same way a musician plays an instrument, the actor…

— Rob Minkoff

I've always thought that I'm not really a guitar player, but I just practised so much that I developed into a kind…

— Ritchie Blackmore

When I was a little bitty kid, my aunt showed me how to play a little boogie. It took me years. I…

— Dr. John

Jazz musicians like John Coltrane needed these very clear titles for their abstract music, and your decision to bring voices into your…

— Glenn Ligon

In order to function and pay our bills and our taxes and feed our families and stuff, musicians have to make a…

— Matt Snell

As a journalist, I never critiqued anyone. I never review books. I've never felt qualified as a musician to say whether someone…

— James McBride

So for all that we might speak words in each other's vicinity, this could never develop into anything that could be called…

— Haruki Murakami

There are always going to be people that are judgmental that are going to say, 'Well, he was an actor first, so…

— Jared Leto

It never really occurred to me to seek out a female influence, a female musician.

— Nita Strauss

Ive always enjoyed the enthusiasm of the best studio musicians and, over the years, have collected so many inspired contributions from them.

— Michael Franks

For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.

— Virginia Woolf

For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.

— Cornel West

Musicians tell me, if what I'm doing is right, they should never have gone to school.

— Ornette Coleman

I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians…

— Bradley Joseph

I think of myself as a jungle musician because of my lack of formal training.

— George Harrison

I didn't want to just be making music randomly and not have any direction.

— Mura Masa

Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.

— Celia Thaxter

So I cradle this average violin that knows Only forgotten showtunes, but argues The possibility of free declamation anchored To a dull…

— John Ashbery

The person I would trust the most is my mom. She's just really creative... She's a playwright and she's a musician.

— Jazmine Sullivan

Spirituality is worthless if it's not practical. Music is my work. I am a musician.

— John McLaughlin

My mom really wanted me to be a musician so she gave me a guitar for my fifth birthday, but I didn't…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

I've been collaborating with Ira Schickman on some songs, and there will be many other, great musicians involved.

— Chaka Khan

All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion…

— John Coltrane

Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.

— Wes Montgomery