Musician Quotes · Page 58

[Slogan of her 'Trouble Bureau' for needy artists and musicians:] Happiness is a change of trouble.

— Malvina Hoffman

I want people to hear musicians like Joe Cuba. He has done things to whole masses of Puerto Rican people. The music…

— David Bowie

I played guitar when I was a kid a little bit. I can tool around with a guitar, but I'm certainly not…

— Matt Ross

I have performed all over the world to packed audiences. I don't have to be a trained musician to prove my singing…

— Atif Aslam

I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.

— Walter Becker

I talk to people who are musicians, and they go, Oh this is hell. And I go, Are you kidding me? You…

— Chris Isaak

I'm going to get drunk and insult as many musicians from the 80's as is humanly possible.

— Noel Gallagher

You might have asked [about skill] of an artist or a musician or whatever... but with me it just happens.

— Bernie Ecclestone

I'll probably pay more attention to the musicians in the pit than the stars because they're the closest you're going to get…

— Chris Rock

I'd like to think I've left something in the world. Without in any way trying to be morbid, but life is very…

— Paul Weller

I'm a producer. I'm a musician. And my job is to come in and, you know, put - you know, I treat…

— Pharrell Williams

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist --…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I like to follow my favorite team and talk sports with my band or fans. You won't believe how many musicians are…

— Garth Brooks

Music is entirely subjective. I was thinking that for myself, for songwriting and what I like to listen to, to help motivate…

— Marnie Stern

The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first…

— George Bernard Shaw

My dad's side of the family had lots of artists and musicians. There's an emotional, quite sentimental quality to Slavic culture. It's…

— Nick Clegg

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

— Vlatko Stefanovski

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

I can't say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early…

— Al Yankovic

I think one of the reasons I've had success in hip-hop is that I can bring out vulnerability in people who are…

— Skylar Grey

If you're a woman musician, that is your qualifier. I've had people come up to me and say, "You're good for a…

— Thao Nguyen

We must face the fact that many today are notoriously careless in their living. This attitude finds its way into the church.…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

The show is coming from the music. I get on the stage with the band, and I communicate with my musicians, and…

— D'Angelo

What's funny about the slacker thing, people project an image of what they think a musician is: young, slack, unemployed - like…

— Courtney Barnett

We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

— Eddie Van Halen

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

— Tony Visconti

The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.

— Roy Ayers

I'm a compulsive musician, but it's also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else.

— Alexis Korner

I don't want to be labeled as a certain style producer; I just want to be producer and musician in general.

— Murda Beatz

When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next…

— Brian Greene

I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do.

— Dave Douglas

Musicians have made incredible contributions to the conservation and environmental movement and continue to do so, more than ever.

— Paul Watson

I know I'm born to be a writer and a musician - that's what I love and am supposed to do.

— Ruel

My dad was a jingle writer, and my mom was a jewelry designer and musician.

— Reeve Carney

My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter.

— Sufjan Stevens

There's zero correlation between owning music and being a greater music lover or musician than the next person.

— Erol Alkan

I love you all. I love you more than life itself, but you're all fucking mad.

— Ozzy Osbourne

The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all…

— Alberta Hunter

As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything - I just enjoy music.

— Darren Criss

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs

— Charlie Byrd