Musician Quotes · Page 2

“Musicians are PHENOMENAL.”

— Stephanie Lahart

I'm not a musician - I'm a ham.

— Ozzy Osbourne

Sound is everything to a musician.

— John Densmore

I'm quite an eclectic musician.

— Daryl Hall

The music is in minors.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

“Fate and your dreams can collide”

— Joe Brooks

I wanted to be a jazz musician.

— Ron Cephas Jones

Once a musician, always a musician.

— Roger Taylor

Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician.

— Henry Rollins

All the musicians that I know want to act.

— Juliette Lewis

Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.

— James Cook

Light threatens, is active, is gone, so it is with a song.

— Hilda Doolittle

I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff.

— Neal Schon

Combing my hair doesn't make me a better musician.

— Ritchie Blackmore

Actors always want to be musicians, and musicians want to be actors

— Marilyn Manson

I just want to grow as a musician. that's why I do different languages.

— Neeti Mohan

Nowadays it's hard to get somebody to invest the time - everybody wants to be famous rather than be a good musician.

— Joe Louis Walker

I get to focus on being a musician sometimes, and I get to focus on being a vocalist sometimes.

— Britt Daniel

Chris Martin is more of a musician and hasn't really put himself out there as a television host or anything like that.

— Ian Astbury

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by…

— Ralph Ellison

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

— James Weldon Johnson

My new year's resolution: Never be afraid to be kicked in the teeth. Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.

— Lady Gaga

It is just that heavy metal musicians write in minor keys, and when you do that, you frighten people.

— Ronnie James Dio

I don't like heroin, unless you're a jazz musician and then you have to be on it because jazz is the sound…

— John Waters

All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the…

— Dolly Parton

There are so many different musicians I look up to for different reasons - from hip-hop to rock to pop. Some are…

— Manika

Going to the Sahara Desert and meeting the Touareg band Tinariwen was a life-changing experience. All through that time, I have just…

— Justin Adams

The things I see every day inspire my sound and lyrics, like certain people and situations that stick out in my mind.…

— Birdy

I've been making electronic music for twenty some odd years but, because I grew up playing in punk rock bands, when I…

— Moby

I just know of so many musicians who burn out because they go on tour and they have to play their one-hit…

— Larkin Grimm

Every time we buy a CD or download a song, the artist is paid for their work. You might not know that…

— Dionne Warwick

I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If…

— Abigail Washburn

I think right now is when we need to hear different voices coming out of all parts of the world. You can't…

— Michael Franti

I don't think that those things [so called common practice] ever truly existed in the way that we like to believe that…

— Missy Mazzoli

I basically taught myself how to sing and play by copying records, and that's just how it was for me. I know…

— Susanna Hoffs

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

I believe in the spiritual warfare. There are people who pick sides. The lord of this world is Satan. You can do…

— Stephen Baldwin

People always say that music is a universal language. It was very, very true. We could show up anywhere with any people…

— Jherek Bischoff

My identity shifted when I got into # recovery . That's who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure…

— Eric Clapton

A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you listen, anybody…

— Miles Davis