Musician Quotes · Page 12

I'm not a trained musician. When folks talk about 'Well, you go to this or that' - the tenor, or the third…

— Emmylou Harris

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.

— Louis Armstrong

She [Joni Mitchell] wanted to have that (jazz) element in her music. Of course, when she heard Jaco's [Jaco Pastorius'] music and…

— Don Alias

I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of…

— Olivia Wilde

When I was 6 I thought that I wanted to be a musician - like a singer-songwriter. That's what I romantically envisioned…

— Andrew Garfield

Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style.

— Gunther Schuller

When you write a song you're more or less saying, "This is everyone. I think this is everyone." It doesn't necessarily have…

— Anthony Green

We all grew up idolizing another musician. That's how this works. That's how music is created.

— Bruno Mars

I have found that the best cure for self pity is to do something to help someone else.

— Carl Orr

I got by as a musician since day one. I don't live beyond my means. I have real cheap tastes.

— Chris Isaak

I've been very fortunate, because I've cooked for a lot of actors and actresses and musicians. I've cooked for presidents and I've…

— Emeril Lagasse

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've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated.

— Rick Springfield

America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social…

— Henry Miller

I think that today, in Europe at least, people don't tend to think so much about the instrument that is producing the…

— Michala Petri

Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician

— Wynton Marsalis

If I had lady-spider legs, I would weave a sky where the stars lined up. Matresses would be tied down tight to…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Any musician in any band - for a really good band - you know your part in the band.

— Duff McKagan

This is going to sound really corny, but it's the way I feel: Musicians have been around for a really long time.…

— Will Sheff

Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians.

— Morton Feldman

I've had my bubblegum years and I did them well. Now it's time to come back as the woman, artist, and musician…

— Irene Cara

The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest jazz musicians will…

— Ahmet Ertegun

As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army…

— Michelle Shocked

Honestly I don't listen to lot of English music. I listen to lot of Bollywood music and my favourite singer is Shoaib…

— Ravichandran Ashwin

I'm so proud that my offspring became a musician. I'm full of awe that we are able to have a whole family…

— Maxine Hong Kingston