Musician Quotes · Page 55

I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in…

— David Cassidy

Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums.

— Ronald Perelman

I'm not a martyr, just a musician who dies for your sins. Oh, that's what a martyr is? Very well then, I…

— Thom Yorke

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

— G-Eazy

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

— Herbie Hancock

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

— James Paxton

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

— Lana Del Rey

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

— Melissa Villasenor

Someone once wrote that musicians are touched on the shoulder by God, and I think it's true. You can make other people…

— John Berendt

I do have shout-outs to bands and musicians I like in my books, but the musical references can be misunderstood. Often, I…

— George Pelecanos

Madonna is a pro. I don't like her and have no respect for her but- I don't think she should be called…

— Jon Fishman

I've never been more moved by a voice than I have been by Roy Orbison. I loved him personally, and I loved…

— Dolly Parton

I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't…

— Bryan Adams

Freddie [Highmore] is great in the movie [August Rush]. It comes out this Fall and I play a young cellist, a prodigy,…

— Keri Russell

The fact that a total of 18 musicians humbly came together to share the glory and create something this original, epic, and…

— James Moore

I had gotten to know the music scene there, and just fell in love with it. I've lived there a little over…

— Sarah Jaffe

The anti-nuke movement has important and far-reaching implications for grassroots organizing. It can unite kids and musicians, everybody, whether they're leftist or…

— Bonnie Raitt

Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done…

— Steve Jobs

It is a great pleasure to be performing with a big band. Those people took part in a group that played the…

— Vlatko Stefanovski

Collaborations work when both or however many parties are the right people to be working together for whatever reason - whether it's…

— John Parish

The people wanted to believe that the Negroes couldn't learn to read music but had a natural talent for it. So we…

— Eubie Blake

I love acting. I can't imagine anything else that I would do. I know a lot of actors that really want to…

— Edward Furlong

The most intelligent inspection of any number of fine paintings will not make the observer a painter, nor will listening to a…

— Emanuel Lasker

See, if you put a musician in a place where he has to do something different from what he does all the…

— Miles Davis

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

— Robyn Hitchcock

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

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

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

— Chris Robinson

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

I try not to become friends with musicians, but life happens and dinner happens and going out happens - it becomes interwoven…

— Ariel Rechtshaid

I think The Sunset Tree is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.

— John Darnielle

I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.

— Robyn Hitchcock

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

— Kali Uchis

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

— Santigold

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

— Hilda Doolittle