Musician Quotes · Page 57

I feel like what I'm best at is being a musician and a performer. I want to use that to help people…

— Kathleen Hanna

I'm embarrassed when I see Brits abroad; they have their tops off, wear flip flops, and shout at the top of their…

— Noel Gallagher

I'm going to be a superstar musician, kill myself, and go out in a flame of glory.

— Kurt Cobain

Even as a child I knew I wanted to be a singer, and in 1976, at the age of 20, I quit…

— Paul Young

You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.

— Bruno Mars

Music speaks from spirit to spirit and in that sense you could call it a true spiritual language.

— John McLaughlin

When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.

— Trey Anastasio

My whole purpose of being a musician is to not follow the rules, so if I set rules for myself, I've already…

— Lotic

After seeing what I have seen on my journey, my advice to upcoming musicians would have to be... always have your vision…

— Chronixx

When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes…

— Andres Segovia

It was about working with other musicians, but more than that it's about exploring musical areas that you could never do with…

— Glenn Tipton

Everybody now who's playing in Unicorn band is deeply schooled in music. I'm the only one who's self-taught, which I think is…

— Nicholas Thorburn

If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones,…

— Bill Wyman

Music to me is something that I didn't choose; it was a necessity. I grew up with music, my father is a…

— Ingrid Michaelson

I think you have to know exactly what you want. Whether you want to be a guitar player or a musician, you…

— Jonny Lang

I haven't had that many people onstage for a while, and I'm looking forward to that. They're all such creative musicians in…

— Andrew Bird

So if you can make it through, you know you've got something good, you can handle anything. We've been blessed to grow…

— Lizzo

I'm not that type of musician where I can sit down at the piano and work out a song; I actually really…

— Dave Gahan

We musicians, like everyone else, are numb with sorrow at this murder, and with rage at the senselessness of the crime. But…

— Leonard Bernstein

For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession…

— Anonymous

Many people think of me as just a riff guitarist, but I think of myself in broader terms. As a musician I…

— Jimmy Page

You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative; you may play the piano most brilliantly, and not be…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

He [Johnny Cash] was so fragile. We invaded Iraq in March, and he died in September. And because his health was so…

— Rosanne Cash

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

— Steve Jobs

You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.

— Eve Arnold

I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

— Carlisle Floyd

Sometimes people say I should see a therapist, but I don't want any therapist wrecking my weirdness.

— Peter Wolf

The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective.

— Melissa Auf der Maur

“Playing an instrument is its own reward. Cleaning out a spit valve is its own punishment.”

— Peter James West

I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.

— Sam Shepard

I always felt that the musician's job was to provide an alternative source of information.

— Bruce Springsteen

My father was a musician and wanted me to study piano. I had no interest.

— Joel Grey

To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.

— Dick Gregory

Rock musicians are consistent in their disdain and irreverent treatment of Jesus Christ.

— Tim LaHaye

I thought that I could have a career in music. I really didn't know exactly what I wanted to do or how…

— Sam Hunt

Musicians wake up and create a more loving community by creating heavier music.

— Cass McCombs

I've continued to pursue other interests in my downtime, but I'm glad I'm a musician. It's the perfect career for me.

— Hilary Hahn

Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s.

— Christian McKay

I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

— James Brown

My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the…

— Anonymous