Musician Quotes · Page 17

Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.

— Horace Walpole

LIFE = (L)ive (I)N (F)ull (E)ffect!!!!!!!

— Joseph Simmons

[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.

— Miles Davis

I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.

— John Coltrane

See, I have two selves in me - a musician and a composer.

— Anupam Roy

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

— Robert Fripp

Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!

— Toots Thielemans

My brother is a musician and I'm in tennis.

— Patrick Mouratoglou

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

— Alexis Korner

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

— Roy Ayers

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

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

— Eddie Van Halen

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

— Bernie Ecclestone

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

— Noel Gallagher

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

— Walter Becker

Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt…

— Henry Ward Beecher

You get a lot of who you are as a musician across through the music you write. If you're writing your own…

— Harry Styles

I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been…

— Sonny Rollins

It was about finding creative, original musicians. Musicians who are strong composers. Flexible, empathetic musicians, who are great individually but who also…

— Joshua Redman

Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily…

— Andre Malraux

Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get…

— Michael Azerrad

I would love to interview Dave Grohl. I just think he's an amazing musician, and I grew up listening to Nirvana, so…

— Malin Akerman

I am not fitted to give concerts. The audience intimidates me, I feel choked by its breath, paralyzed by its curious glances,…

— Frederic Chopin

After Hurricane Katrina, I wanted to go back to New Orleans to help musicians return to the city. But Andrew Young advised…

— Kabir Sehgal

I'm very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or…

— Ian Anderson

If a song is cooking in the studio, that's great, but if I can imagine doing it on stage, that's the next…

— Chrysta Bell

I definitely learned to communicate with other musicians better. I used to feel so intimidated by guys who can read notes, like,…

— Flying Lotus

Following directly behind the bier were the servants who would, in earlier times, have been slaughtered at the graveside, along with a…

— Catharine Arnold

There are any number of models artists can use to profit off of their talent and artistry. It is not up to…

— Stephan Kinsella

I once had a young musician come to me and say that he wanted to be a professional musician. I asked him…

— Phil Keoghan

I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie…

— Jared Leto

“I didn't do music to live; I lived so that I could do music.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

To be a drummer you also have to be a musician.

— Ian Paice

I never set out to be a rock star, I set out to be a working musician.

— Steve Miller

All musicians are potential band leaders.

— Thelonious Monk

The death of young musicians isn’t something to romanticize

— Frances Bean Cobain

Jay Ashby is simply a great musician!

— Paul Simon

I definitely think of myself as a musician first.

— Lucia Micarelli

My parents were actors and my brother is a musician.

— Katy Wix