Musician Quotes

Music can change the world.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

I'm a professional musician.

— Borns

My ears are shot. I'm a musician.

— Killer Mike

“We're all weird.”

— John O'Callaghan

Music chooses her musicians.

— Patricia Barber

I'm not actually a musician.

— Mats Wilander

Oh, I'm a martyr to music.

— Dylan Thomas

I'm just a traveling musician.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

I never thought a career as a musician was possible.

— Billie Eilish

You have to be, become, the musician who can't be replaced.

— Shankar Mahadevan

I never pictured myself as a professional musician.

— Borns

I'm an artist. I'm a musician. I'm not someone you can put in a box.

— Little Simz

Writing songs is cheaper than going to therapy.

— Brent Smith

You're a constant student, as a musician.

— Joshua Bell

I'd love to play a musician in a film.

— Marianne Faithfull

I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf.

— Evelyn Glennie

Eventually, I had to figure out what the hell I was going to do with my life. I needed to find my…

— Christine McVie

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

— Ronald Perelman

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

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

My father slapped my thighs with a variety of meats until I began to cry and sulked in the corner. I later…

— Thom Yorke

See it in terms of paint. We don't learn subject matter, we learn paint. The musician can play any score that is…

— Helen Van Wyk

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue…

— Mike Figgis

Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no…

— Georgie Fame

I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist…

— Serj Tankian

I think a valid approach to being a musician is to take all of the experience of your life and filter it…

— David Sanborn

I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get…

— Rick Springfield

I always end up working with people that do a really good job, so I'm the only one that I'm worried about…

— Neko Case

Of course, I would be depressed sometimes, and my Mom would be worried about me because I would just sleep to escape.…

— Chantal Kreviazuk

I said to myself a long time ago that I didn't want to be that hanging-on-for-too-long, aging-rock-musician guy, and that's why I…

— Eric Avery

If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's…

— Carlos Santana

But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So…

— Wayne Kramer

Indeed we have souls. And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're…

— Maya Angelou

It is only by demanding the impossible of the piano that you can obtain from it all that is possible. For the…

— Heinrich Neuhaus

People with talent are not interested in showing off behind another person. They're more interested in the music. [Charlie Parker] was playing…

— Helen Merrill

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

— Jacques Roumain

Acting is a creative process, and directing and music. I think creative people - and I take myself as a creative person…

— Anthony Hopkins

I read to learn, tech myself stuff and teach myself math and do complex formulas, and it's very, very tough, but I…

— Jeff Kendrick

The most important thing to do as an artist is to get out of your comfort zone and work with different people:…

— Katie Noonan

Everybody goes up and does something in the private sector that they feel that they can do, and obviously I'm a musician…

— Sarah Brightman