Musician Quotes · Page 25

I think it's just an awkward time right now to be a musician.

— Trent Reznor

“Why I write music? Because it hurts not to.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

I didn't really want to give up music.

— Bryan Ferry

I'm a musician. Anything I've done as an actor has come from that.

— Harry Connick, Jr

Yeah, I was with Jethro Tull for three weeks, so what?

— Tony Iommi

My family isn't posh; they're musicians.

— Audrey Niffenegger

“We play heavy metal because our lives are heavy metal.”

— Reda Zine

“If I knew what to do I'd do more than write a song for you”

— Criss Jami

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

— Britt Daniel

I think musicians are always supportive of each other because they want the groove to keep going on. They just basically want…

— Linda Ronstadt

I don't know whether you [musician] can be all things to everybody, which is why there are different kinds of music.

— Gene Simmons

Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do.

— Miles Davis

All comics want to be musicians. There's a part of me that wants to be a serious musician. I love songs about…

— Sarah Silverman

The creative process for a musician is very different than for a filmmaker. I have an idea, and I can pretty much…

— Mike Patton

Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.

— Ed O'Brien

The hills are alive with the sound of music, with songs they have sung for a thousand years.

— Oscar Hammerstein II

The thrill of hearing your own voice recorded is still there, I still love it, going into the studio and thinking how…

— Cliff Richard

A lot of electronic-based musicians give very low-risk performances, and it's fun to hear your favorite band play live on a big…

— How to Dress Well

I like musicians who look at the public. You have to bring the music to the largest number. Otherwise, we'll [the Jazz…

— Dee Dee Bridgewater

Doubt always hovers nearby, but I take photographs the way a musician hums. Looking is like breathing. So when luck turns my…

— Marc Riboud

I promised to finish school, so I'll figure it out I guess. Besides, I'm on a special school for musicians and artists,…

— Martin Garrix

I suppose ultimately I'm interested in music. I'm a musician. I'm not a gunslinger. That's the difference between what I do and…

— Edge

A lot of people think that the music was responsible for a lot of changes in the Sixties, but I think the…

— Steve Winwood

Initially, when I was first starting as a musician, I was a very nationalistic figure and I used to believe in doing…

— Junaid Jamshed

Comedy is the drug, when they laugh it's like I'm a jazz musician and they hear it, and they get it. It's…

— Alonzo Bodden

"What can I offer you that will make you happier about how you should feel about who Angelina Jolie is?" I think…

— Angelina Jolie

When you have a sense of calling, whether it's to be a musician, soloist, artist, in one of the technical fields, or…

— Charles R. Swindoll

What's funny about the slacker thing, people project an image of what they think a musician is: young, slack, unemployed - like…

— Courtney Barnett

The show is coming from the music. I get on the stage with the band, and I communicate with my musicians, and…

— D'Angelo

We must face the fact that many today are notoriously careless in their living. This attitude finds its way into the church.…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

If you're a woman musician, that is your qualifier. I've had people come up to me and say, "You're good for a…

— Thao Nguyen

I think one of the reasons I've had success in hip-hop is that I can bring out vulnerability in people who are…

— Skylar Grey

I am a Slavic musician and it is deeply inside of me.

— Miroslav Vitous

As a musician, you just want to be able to do what you love.

— Andy Grammer

I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.

— Rosanne Cash

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

— Anonymous

I always see myself as much more of a musician than a celebrity.

— Sade Adu

I don't feel like that many musicians are competitive with each other.

— John Legend

When I hear a great musician, I can feel his life inside the music.

— John McLaughlin

You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.

— Zakk Wylde