Musician Quotes · Page 49

Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician.

— Tupac Shakur

At one point, I was thinking about going to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, but then I realized it's actually not what…

— Alycia Debnam-Carey

It is only the most elite of elite musicians whose unconventional approach becomes convention.

— Steve Vai

I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician.

— Juliana Hatfield

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

— Nat Hentoff

Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.

— Benny Goodman

“You can be known as the most beautiful woman who ever crawled across cut glass to make a deal”

— Bob Dylan

Growing up with my dad being a musician, it seemed like a male centric world to me. I just didn't know many…

— Lola Kirke

I can't sing “I Believe I Can Fly”. I sing that horrible. But I can sing “I Gotta Feeling” good. I wrote…

— will.i.am

He led quite a great life, ... He was an Old Testament figure railing against the establishment - a Jewish guy from…

— Tom Hayden

Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and…

— Anonymous

I'm not a jazz artist. Don't get me wrong now, it's all music to me. I just played music and if it's…

— Pharoah Sanders

I am a rock & roll man, and therefore, a denim man. Musicians of any era - whether it be The Beatles,…

— Renzo Rosso

I think that today, in Europe at least, people don't tend to think so much about the instrument that is producing the…

— Michala Petri

“Chris was in the rocker, fully clothed, and was strumming idly on Cory's guitar. "Dance, ballerina, dance," he softly chanted, and his…

— V.C. Andrews

How did I end up right here wit you after all the things that I been through. It's been one of those…

— Drake

...I do like the low frequencies. It's from years and years of observing audiences when they hear a lower frequency coming from…

— Bennie Maupin

What is scurrilously called ragtime is an invention that is here to stay. That is now conceded by all classes of musicians...…

— Scott Joplin

If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works - he has an idea and he writes…

— Brian Eno

A lot of musicians are super - insecure and they take forever and they obsess over the minutia and it's really stifling.…

— Dan Auerbach

We're not just R&B guys. We can do pop, rock, blues . . . a wide variety. We are musicians and play…

— Damon Thomas

I think the most important thing that I can offer young musicians is once you get up on the bandstand, understanding that…

— Bobby Hutcherson

“Because as a musician to say that I play music to be creative is a lie, I could do that at home…

— Kennedy

“Ultimately, musicians of the world must come realise the potential of their calling. Like the shamans, we may serve as healers, metaphysicians,…

— Kenny Werner

The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.

— David Byrne

I'd written songs since I was 16, but I never thought that I would be a musician full time.

— Shura

I identify more as a musician than as a singer, because I play piano and percussion, and I engineer and produce everything…

— Janina Gavankar

I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I'll be right here in my spot wit a lil more cash than I already got trippin off you cause you had…

— Drake

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

— Travis Barker

Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.

— Richard Wagner

Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his…

— Action Bronson

The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians.

— Anonymous

Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.

— Brian Eno

I think some musicians can almost forget that the stage is something to do something on, even if that thing is standing…

— Johnny Marr

I'm lucky to have had the opportunity to perform with bands that have influenced me as a musician over the years.

— Joey Jordison

You know, any sane magician would never reveal his method of deception. And I don't think that a sensible musician would either.

— Van Dyke Parks

I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.

— Jamie Foxx

I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.

— Joan Armatrading

Becoming a musician was all about escape. It was about getting away from the foulness that was me.

— John Grant