Musician Quotes · Page 29

I'm all in favor of getting grants for musicians. Or any other good brand of Scotch.

— Pepper Adams

I think that virtuosity is the first sign of morality in a musician. It means you're serious enough to practice.

— Wynton Marsalis

The Internet had been a BIG help with my career. My advice to musicians, Internet is the key. It gets your music…

— Soulja Boy

As far as artists and musicians, they don't retire. They might tour less.

— James Hetfield

When I'm working behind a camera, I feel like I'm trying to achieve something like a jazz musician does.

— Jack Welpott

My family didn't want me to be a musician, and therefore, they never helped out in my efforts.

— Yo Yo Honey Singh

If John Lennon is deported, I'm leaving too...with my musicians..and my marijuana.

— Art Garfunkel

This is going to sound corny, but I feel like I didn't choose music. Music chose me.

— Carly Pearce

Andy Rourke and I had been playing together from 14 or 15, and we had a very great musical chemistry. Andy's just…

— Johnny Marr

I'm better at producing than I am at being a songwriter, but it doesn't change the fact that I still have a…

— John Congleton

From the moment I first heard Steve Laury play, I knew he was dangerous . . . He is an extremely gifted…

— Nathan East

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev can no longer attend concerts by his favorite group Deep Purple without having to fear that the musicians…

— Alexei Navalny

I am still very proud of that concert. In America, the (musicians') connection with the conductor is as with management - it…

— Neeme Jarvi

I started working in music very young, I was raised by a family of musicians and performers, so I guess it was…

— Vanessa Amorosi

God makes something special and unique about each person that sets them apart from every other person, and to me that's is…

— Bubba Sparxxx

We have been working with Habitat for Humanity and we have built eighty homes, 80% of which are being lived in by…

— Harry Connick, Jr

Being a part of a band is easier to brainstorm, and it's fun - you're encouraged and inspired by the others. In…

— Brendan Benson

The Western music tradition is mostly addressed to a public that has a critical mind, and judges the quality of the writing,…

— Gaspar Claus

I'm not talking about what came later [after the American underground punk scene], indie music, or whatever you want to call it,…

— Ian MacKaye

Sometimes listening to music can motivate you. It can. But if you're a musician, that isn't always the way to get new…

— Tori Amos

I do not believe, as do so many musicians, that genius should be left to fight its way to the light. Genius…

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

I work with musicians whose opinions I respect and if they don't like something they don't hold back. They'll say, 'That really…

— Billy Joel

Sometimes I wonder if I shouldn't leaving being musician because I use to like it when noone came to see me playing,…

— Allan Holdsworth

I have a nice little idea from some people I met there who are now in their seventies, and I want to…

— John Gimlette

As an improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business; I am in the…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.

— Robert Moog

I’ve always considered it a great privilege to be a musician, I’ve never lost sight of that.

— Natalie Merchant

I tried to play anything people would hire me to play, because I was a musician.

— J. J. Cale

Cameron Esposito is a musician and podcaster from the States and she's hilarious.

— Julien Baker

I'm not just a singer of funny songs; I am basically, first and foremost, a musician. I'm always recording all styles of…

— Ray Stevens

... I practice more than ever ... mostly scales and arpeggios ... and anything I can't do ...

— Julian Bream

I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman.

— Amy Grant

I personally feel that acting is not totally different from singing and being a musician.

— Alicia Keys

Musicians can look forward to playing with the best musicians that ever played. They can even have their own band!

— David Berg

Meeting actors and TV personalities is one thing, but I just feel like meeting musicians is the coolest.

— Shaun White

My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.

— Youssou N'Dour

A model wears clothes and looks good, which is very passive. It's not like a musician promoting a new album. You don't…

— Peter Andre

What formed me as a musician, a songwriter, the sound and personality of my band, a whole lot of that happened well…

— Chris Cornell

You don't have to be a good musician if you've got certain computer skills.

— Daryl Hall

I was worried that acting would somehow ruin any credibility I had as a musician.

— Alison Sudol