Musician Quotes · Page 52

I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music.

— Zach Braff

I've been programmed to be an actor. So when I figured out I wanted to be a rock star or a musician,…

— Jesse Rutherford

A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?

— Robert Glasper

Be a famous musician. Be a famous act or. Be a famous write r. Be a famous basketball player. Be famous.

— Dallas Clayton

I really wanted to be a musician, but it turned out I had no sense of time.

— Tom Perrotta

If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the…

— Buddy Rich

What costs the world to you as a working kid fresh out of college costs nothing to you as a successful musician.

— G-Eazy

I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff.

— Robyn Hitchcock

To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

I guess fortunate that I'm still around and I emphasize I guess because you never can tell what musicians would be playing…

— Sonny Rollins

It's all about synthesis, you don't have to be a real musician. You just synthesize your own reality, synthesize your own talents.…

— Klayton

I was worried that I didn't have as many Facebook 'likes' as another musician. You can almost feel like a failure if…

— Erika M. Anderson

It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware…

— Arnold Palmer

I'm a musician. I've done TV, but I've never really been a reality TV star, and it's not the route I'm looking…

— Tulisa

Whenever I release a record, it's my record. It's not a selfish thought. I may work all year 'round for other people.…

— Eberhard Weber

There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his…

— William Kingdon Clifford

Even as a fan, as someone who's into his performances, the Stooges and his own stuff, Iggy [Pop] is one of the…

— Babatunde Adebimpe

I rented a summer home in the winter on Long Island, I took long walks, and then I ended up moving to…

— June Millington

Many musicians are fabulously skilled at playing the black dots on the printed page, but mystified by how the dots got there…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

Luther Vandross was a musician who sang. So after a while he was also the number one background singer in New York,…

— Marcus Miller

I believe that humanity now is desperately calling for new ideas. These new ideas must come from spiritual teachers and artists, from…

— Neale Donald Walsch

I never wanted to churn it out. Comedians tend to work all the time. They never put it down like musicians who…

— Chris Rock

I'd been in a couple situations where I'd seen bands realize that they didn't have to get a good take in order…

— J. Robbins

Reading and writing music is a wonderful way of getting ideas in your head down to someone else who reads and writes,…

— Ronnie Montrose

I hope to star in a biopic of some musician, so I could do their impression and get into their minds and…

— Melissa Villasenor

My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

— Paul McCartney

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.

— Billy Joel

I have a hard time even calling myself a musician, but I still have to be involved in music in some capacity…

— James Paxton

Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners.

— Herbie Hancock

Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.

— Lana Del Rey

Now as a musician, if you have it within you, you can create your own reality. Believe me, it's a novelty.

— Chris Robinson

My name's Darren. I'm a musician, part time idiot. That's a full time job actually.

— Darren Criss

I don't think you can be a good musician if you just listen to rap, or just the [type of music] you…

— Freddie Gibbs

When I was seven years old, I was leading a quartet and trio, and that really laid the groundwork for me as…

— Anne Akiko Meyers

In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.

— Lee Konitz

Music sets up ladders, it makes us invisible, it sets us apart, it lets us escape; but from the visible there is…

— Hilda Doolittle

So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.

— Santigold

As a musician, you are all the music that you absorb into your mind; that just subconsciously connects.

— Kali Uchis

Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money.

— Glenn Miller

If you look at the way people behave at shows, icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship.

— Grimes