I'm a musician, first and foremost.

Before I even pick up a guitar, usually the words are done. So I'm not first and foremost a musician. I'm first and foremost…

— Lucy Dacus

I want to look at the whole package, but I definitely want to protect the middle-class taxpayer, first and foremost.

— Kay Hagan

First and foremost, I married for love.

— Kim Kardashian

First and foremost, it was fun. Everybody involved with it made you feel like they were an important contributor to the process. We were…

— Adam Arkin

You're a musician and you live and die by people responding to your music. It's a business just like anything else and if people…

— Marc Martel

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 a bit…

— Nicholas Thorburn

Adam Berenson knows how to compose, organize an ensemble, do musical research, play solo and trio piano, write for musical journals, and enlist others…

— Paul Bley

Man, you'd be surprised how much I'm learning - not only about myself, but about the musicians who came before me. You don't realize…

— Freddie Hubbard

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

— Travis Barker

Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are…

— Anais Nin

The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out…

— Jacques Roumain

When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I…

— M. Ward

First of all, I think that is true, if you are a musician, particularly on the come, that you do have to end up…

— John Sebastian

I was a musician first of all.

— Jonas Blue

I was a musician first, the whole DJ-ing came after.

— Bonobo