Musician Quotes · Page 136

There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and…

— Ian Anderson

I was able to go over [Saxophone Competition] and work a little more in Europe. I'm thankful that those of kinds of…

— Jon Gordon

Erik Satie does not say the opposite of Debussy; he says the same thing only the other way round.

— Jose Bergamin

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with…

— Abraham Maslow

I think there are just a million interviews in anthologies with famous musicians that are about the music, and they're really boring…

— Neil Strauss

I criticized the whole American songwriting industry and the pop side of it and I was bitter about it. And I stepped…

— Marina and the Diamonds

An actor and a [theatre] director are both what I would call interpreters of work. We interpret a work, just as a…

— George Ogilvie

Musicians always want to sacrifice our creativity to get involved in environmental issues or political activism of some sort - to reduce…

— Eyvind Kang

When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to…

— Billy Joel

Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving,…

— Jackson Browne

The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the…

— Yo-Yo Ma

That's one of the things about being married to a couple of musicians, I have got great iPods. That's what I was…

— Pamela Anderson

I grew up in church. That's how most young African American musicians learn how to perform. You could be six years old…

— Robert Glasper

I wanted to get my recording and become a musician again, work; with other people, do that kind of thing because I…

— Bootsy Collins

So it's more the musician in me that makes me stretch out and try different things more than anything. But, like a…

— Lee Ann Womack

I’ve had the pleasure of hearing The Novelists perform live. They are gifted songwriters and talented musicians with strong lead voices. This…

— Daryl Stuermer

I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.

— Cass McCombs

I went to high school right outside Dallas, and (songwriter and performer) Michael Martin Murphey was a senior there when I was…

— Ray Wylie Hubbard

My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.

— Ishmael Reed

I am really inspired by writers, and weirdly - respect music journalists, which I think makes me the exception amongst most musicians.…

— Emily Haines

I never would take a role of radio announcer, disc jockey or musician.

— Bob Crane

Ancient tradition always depicts a true Chinese musician as blind. Esoterically, this implies that his gift of the divine art is so…

— Corinne Heline

I think music piracy is forcing many people to look at the live aspect of the record industry as an income and…

— Ben Howard

I've been a musician longer than I've been an actor.

— Anonymous

I loved the atmosphere of the dance studios - the wooden floors, the big mirrors, everyone dressed in pink or black tights,…

— Suzanne Vega