Musician Quotes · Page 23

I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard.

— Dick Dale

[Bach is the] reason I became a musician

— Glenn Gould

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

— Victor Hugo

Verbal communication about music is impossible except among musicians.

— Virgil Thomson

A musician cannot move others unless he, too, is moved.

— Anonymous

All the people I hung out with were musicians.

— Hunter Hayes

Musicians are the architects of heaven.

— Bobby McFerrin

I wear black on the outside 'Cause black is how I feel on the inside.

— Anonymous

I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.

— Sam Shepard

“Playing an instrument is its own reward. Cleaning out a spit valve is its own punishment.”

— Peter James West

The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective.

— Melissa Auf der Maur

Sometimes people say I should see a therapist, but I don't want any therapist wrecking my weirdness.

— Peter Wolf

I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

— Carlisle Floyd

You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.

— Eve Arnold

My whole purpose of being a musician is to not follow the rules, so if I set rules for myself, I've already…

— Lotic

When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.

— Trey Anastasio

I started as a musician. I play the saxophone, but from the age of 17, I realised that it's very hard to…

— John Polson

In literary art, as in the art of the architect, the painter, the musician, signs that the artist is thinking of his…

— Herbert Spencer

Way back in the old days, say in Europe of the Middle Ages, you had an aristocracy, and they could afford to…

— Pete Seeger

I worked really hard to develop me as an artist and as a musician. I have so many different influences and play…

— Elle King

The real Liberace - and I'll preface this by saying that I didn't know the real one - was a man who…

— Richard LaGravenese

I think I'm an artistic radical, and I think I'll be recognized as one. I'm a really good musician and a songwriter,…

— Billy Corgan

Now, as for this new breed of musicians with their 'ultrasonic' conservatory technique, I say: So What. Tell me a story from…

— Woody Shaw

Ike's problem was that he was a musician that always wanted to be a star; and was a star, locally, but never…

— Tina Turner

I'm definitely a frustrated musician, though it's more in terms of wishing I was a better guitar player and songwriter. But I've…

— Cillian Murphy

Isn't my music the last of the real rhythm and blues? Isn't it great? It's because of my musicians, we were weaned…

— Ted Nugent

The amazing thing about Sweets [Edison] was that he exactly spoke the way that he played! He was really unique, the one…

— Ray Brown

I like the process of giving control away [at the recording]. When you give it up to people, it's another intelligent organism…

— Pantha du Prince

I want to talk to the bullied kids of the world. Tell them to hang on, it will get better. Know that…

— Cat Cora

I dont care who you are as a musician or what you do as a musician, when they put that microphone in…

— Jasari

I think I was meant to be a musician who speaks his mind about social justice issues. And I grew up in…

— Tom Morello

Berlin seems like a place of healing to me though: you have both the Holocaust Memorial and Hiroshima Strasse side-by-side there. You…

— Robert Montgomery

It's important for all worship musicians to pour into young people.

— Mike Murray

I didn't set out to be a touring musician.

— Jack Savoretti

I love Glen Hansard. He's a folk musician.

— Rachel Zegler

Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.

— Miles Kington

I'm a semi-failed writer, but I'm a capital-F Failed musician.

— Joshua Mohr

I wanted to be known as a better musician more than anything.

— Tiffany Darwish

Not all musicians believe in god but they all believe in Bach

— Mauricio Kagel

Being an actor is a much more structured life than being a musician.

— Grant-Lee Phillips