Musician Quotes · Page 27

I was trying to actively get away from music, I guess. But I recorded a whole bunch of instrumental piano songs.

— Jens Lekman

“It's not my job to tell people how to consume music. I just want them to consume music.”

— Eric Alper

Sometimes I joke around that if I weren't a musician, I would be a power lifter. I don't think people expect it…

— Mirah

We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what…

— Henry Miller

Of course the headspace for the young musician is whatever the guy who is paying you says, is right, but that's all.

— Terry Bozzio

The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.

— Idina Menzel

We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it.

— Sebastian Faulks

I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.

— Geddy Lee

When I did it, I was a starving musician in London in a basement flat, but a simple tune with the right…

— Mick Ralphs

Visible Faith is an expression of my Christian faith which must be visible to be real! I gave the name to the…

— Ken Hensley

I stopped drinking and realised New York still has a lot of charm, but it has become so bourgeois and affluent -…

— Moby

Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western…

— T Bone Burnett

The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the…

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

There's all these musicians in the world, and anybody that takes enough time to create a record or even think about the…

— Ryan Adams

I never minded being thought of as a pop star. People have always thought I wanted to be seen as a serious…

— George Michael

I went to Juilliard in New York and used to do cabarets just for fun. Occasionally, I would get together with a…

— Nicole Beharie

Patti [ Scialfa] was an artist and a musician and she was a songwriter. And she was a lot like me in…

— Bruce Springsteen

I criticized the whole American songwriting industry and the pop side of it and I was bitter about it. And I stepped…

— Marina and the Diamonds

I know musicians who think that drumming and guitaring can be very meditative, but singing is different because when you think about…

— Brett Dennen

Once there was Louis Armstrong blowing his beautiful top in the muds of New Orleans; before him the mad musicians who had…

— Jack Kerouac

An actor and a [theatre] director are both what I would call interpreters of work. We interpret a work, just as a…

— George Ogilvie

I don't believe that the Democratic party has anything to do with the Left. We have two political parties in the US:…

— Tom Morello

A lot of young artists and musicians that we work with, you think they're gonna want to come in and buy the…

— Paul Weller

I was an apprentice television engineer when I decided to pack it up and go full-time, much to my father's disgust. But…

— Peter Ham

I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

— Yo-Yo Ma

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

— Tony Wilson

The best musicians answer something in you when you don't even know the question.

— Allison Pearson

I didn't plan to go to Eurovision and I didn't plan on winning. I was a struggling musician, hoping for a couple…

— Netta Barzilai

You can't just be a musician; you have to be an entertainer and perform and act just to hit the bar.

— Brendon Urie

I'm so proud that my offspring became a musician. I'm full of awe that we are able to have a whole family…

— Maxine Hong Kingston

When someone really respects and admires us as musicians to the extent that they want to work with us, it's really flattering.

— Laura Smith

Music is like having a conversation. All musicians inspire each other, and they're all geared to play something that matters.

— Vince Gill

A.R. Rahman is not a musician, he is a musical scientist, and when he gives advice, you need to take it seriously.

— Jubin Nautiyal

Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.

— Plutarch

A young musician needs a powerful laptop and a good analogue synthesiser.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a "jazz musician" -…

— Esperanza Spalding

I guess I'm used to seeing actors, but rock musicians still hold a special magic for me.

— Hank Azaria

I don't do album covers or CD covers for groups or musicians I don't like or have no interest in.

— Robert Crumb

I was busy enough when I was just a musician. I wasn't making all that much money but I was busy.

— Scatman Crothers

I knew nothing of the real life of a musician, but I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds…

— Lawrence Welk