Musician Quotes · Page 28

I never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist.

— Pete Seeger

What I like about being a musician is that I find the thing soothing, but I also give the soothing to other…

— Sinead O'Connor

I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in…

— Ray Stevens

I'm a weird, bald musician who makes records in his bedroom and lives in the Lower East Side.

— Moby

Music can shoot through the musician like lightening through the sky if that music is unobstructed by thoughts.

— Kenny Werner

For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

— Charles Hazlewood

I never sought out a record deal. It caught me with my pants down. I was just a musician doing my thing,…

— Jamie Cullum

I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the…

— Elton John

The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to the piano or a…

— Alfred Stieglitz

Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very…

— Noel Gallagher

The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the…

— Yo-Yo Ma

When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in…

— Miles Davis

The good thing about playing with other musicians is that it's much easier to make the translation to playing live. It's much…

— Steve Winwood

Whether it's a designer or a musician, I think the most important thing for people who express things are to be unique.…

— Taeyang

I like characters. I like spirited characters whether they exist in fiction or real life. Whether they're the invention of artistic people…

— Marc Jacobs

There's a fairly extensive network of musicians on tour who are all trying to stay sober, and we generally reach out to…

— Moby

Punk, and rock in general, is often very myopic. When people sing about "the world," they're generally focused almost entirely on the…

— G.W. Sok

For starters, I should just tell you that The Band was always my favorite band from the first moment that I heard…

— Colin Linden

The human genome will not help us to understand the spiritual side of humankind, or to know who God is or what…

— Francis Collins

When we talk of architecture, people usually think of something static; this is wrong. What we are thinking of is an architecture…

— Carlo Carra

I thought "I don't need to reach out to my fans, I don't need to have that dialogue with them." But as…

— Bryan Greenberg

Photography is not easy. You know it takes a painter or a sculpture or a musician years to perfect their technique. Then…

— Paul Caponigro

I love acting. I can't imagine anything else that I would do. I know a lot of actors that really want to…

— Edward Furlong

The most intelligent inspection of any number of fine paintings will not make the observer a painter, nor will listening to a…

— Emanuel Lasker

As a producer, I like to bring in unexpected voices, unexpected musicians, like Watt and Joey Spampinato of NRBQ.

— M. Ward

Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.

— Dodie Smith

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin,…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

When I was boy, all I ever wanted to be was a musician. I'm so grateful I get to do it.

— James Bowen

I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.

— Zooey Deschanel

Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

You don't find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn't mean to say you can't be really good.

— Jimmy Page

“It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with [referring to crystal methamphetamines]”

— Fergie

Every record, you've got more experiences to draw on as a writer and a musician.

— Jerry Cantrell

I'm supposed to be a musical genius, but I can't work the car seat that well.

— Kanye West

“I like the smell of my Grandma's soap - I used to sit in the bath and eat it.”

— Carl Barât

I regard myself as a true American musician, and I play every style that is my heritage.

— Michelle Shocked

I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other…

— Gary Burton

Chopin--Two embalmers at work upon a minor poetthe scent of tuberosesAutumn rain.

— H. L. Mencken

I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.

— Barry Manilow

Composers are in some ways the last frontier of musician that gets a paycheck for their musical services.

— Cliff Martinez