Musician Quotes · Page 24

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

— Anonymous

All I ever thought about was music and being a musician.

— Dennis DeYoung

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

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

— Anonymous

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

All the people I hung out with were musicians.

— Hunter Hayes

I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in…

— David Cassidy

Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums.

— Ronald Perelman

I'm not a martyr, just a musician who dies for your sins. Oh, that's what a martyr is? Very well then, I…

— Thom Yorke

My father slapped my thighs with a variety of meats until I began to cry and sulked in the corner. I later…

— Thom Yorke

See it in terms of paint. We don't learn subject matter, we learn paint. The musician can play any score that is…

— Helen Van Wyk

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

Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no…

— Georgie Fame

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue…

— Mike Figgis

Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me…

— Mary Lou Williams

Singers, musicians, and songwriters don't want to use the word "acting" because we want it to be more real than that -…

— Ronee Blakley

We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It…

— Anne Dudley

When I found music I thought, that's what I want to do, but the idea of it being a job never crossed…

— Caleb Followill

I write each song individually and each one calls for individual musicians, You sit around and wonder who can we get to…

— Warren Zevon

I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned…

— Alanis Morissette

I am first and foremost a musician, although those of us who live elsewhere still dream about the inspirational qualities of Australia…

— Roger Woodward

When I was 17 or 18 and it was time to figure out what to do with my life, I realized that…

— David Sanborn

It is not a lack of spiritual experience that leads to failure, but a lack of working to keep our eyes focused…

— Oswald Chambers

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

For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad tiny tremors. The notes know no rest,…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

People equate job titles to levels of creativity. We think that musicians are creative while accountants are not. Job title has nothing…

— Josh Linkner

I have no problem with religion, and I grew up with a strong curiosity about spiritual matters, but my searching took me…

— Eric Clapton

It can be difficult to mediate a compromise between what I have in my head and what the musician has in mind,…

— John Dyer Baizley

I think that female musicians are constantly fighting an uphill battle in general. Even when I'm not writing heartbreak songs... the fact…

— Marissa Nadler

I worry about that terribly because the public eye can bring all sorts of unwanted intrusions and problems. But he's treading his…

— Jude Law

Musicians are the architects of heaven.

— Bobby McFerrin

I guess, at the end of the day, I want to be viewed as a musician.

— Lauren Mayberry

Strange people like chefs, musicians, and politicians affect me.

— Jason Flemyng

I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.

— Mitski

I come from a family of musicians. Even the sewing machine is a Singer.

— Frank Carson

Richard Strauss--Old Home Week in Gomorrah

— H. L. Mencken

When you are so strongly drawn to music, you can't not be a musician.

— Debbie Davies

I'm a musician first and sight has never had anything to do with it.

— Jose Feliciano