Musician Quotes · Page 30

“South Africa is where I was born and started out as a musician. Live your dream.”

— Lisa Goldin

Musicians are very mysterious and wonderful people to me; I don't know how they do it.

— John Updike

A lot of my friends are artists or musicians or single parent families and I'm totally aware of how difficult it is…

— Shirley Manson

I wanted to be a musician and studied vocals in London for a year and then I gave it up.

— Masaba Gupta

The only thing I had in my mind [when I was 17 ] was that I was going to be a professional…

— John Petrucci

I have one message for young musicians around the world: Stay true to your heart, believe in yourself, and work hard.

— Joe Cocker

I think if you're a painter, you paint; if you're a golfer, you golf; if you're a fisherman, you fish; if you're…

— Randy Bachman

It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet.

— Olivier Messiaen

I think having a vision can make someone an influential man. I'm not talking about acting or anything like that, I'm talking…

— Benicio Del Toro

I find it hard to work with other musicians because I know from experience that when they play, they play with their…

— Enya

I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it.…

— Dan Hawkins

Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed…

— Sonny Rollins

I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his…

— Molly Ringwald

Music and visual performance have to influence each other. Designers and musicians have to be the nexus of all things pop culture,…

— Lady Gaga

I grew up in church. That's how most young African American musicians learn how to perform. You could be six years old…

— Robert Glasper

Only a small percentage of novelists, painters, musicians, scientists, anywhere in the world, are talented. But there are many more in Hollywood…

— Hortense Powdermaker

I'm a better musician now, and I rarely practice because age has taught me the value of economy. And I think I'm…

— James McBride

She [Joni Mitchell] wanted to have that (jazz) element in her music. Of course, when she heard Jaco's [Jaco Pastorius'] music and…

— Don Alias

The only reward the musician receives is music: the privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and…

— Robert Fripp

I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

Unnur Birna is a Reykjavik-based violinist and singer. She has performed as a session musician with countless Icelandic and international artists while…

— Ian Anderson

Most people define themselves by what they do - 'I'm a musician.' Then one day it occurred to me that I'm only…

— Herbie Hancock

Everybody struggles with get tiring as a musician having to play the same songs over and over again on one level or…

— Crosby Loggins

I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that…

— Dolly Parton

Marijuana is taken by musicians. And I'm not speaking about good musicians, but the jazz type...

— Harry J. Anslinger

A lot of the way I sing is playing off other musicians. It's what I love to do the most.

— Gloria Estefan

At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the…

— Daniel Ek

“I've loved many women...I'm not going to lie to you, but it never works...vanity always gets in the way.”

— Cassandra Giovanni

Yeah, ever since I was super-young I had a lot of dreams - I wanted to be a musician, I wanted to…

— Finn Wolfhard

I'm one of those controversial celebs or whatever you want to call it, but I am actually a musician - people forget…

— Tulisa

If you're going to call yourself a musician, you have to go out and make music.

— Paolo Nutini

I'm just lucky to have the type of friends and musicians and people dedicated to my music that I do.

— Wynton Marsalis

Like many musicians, I don't look back much... only concentrate on what music I'm doing, and occasionally look ahead.

— Tony Levin

What I've witnessed, managers are divisive and allow musicians to become clouded, irresponsible, and unaware of the world around them.

— Jacob Bannon

We're not going to be the coolest rock stars in the world. We're trying to be good musicians.

— Eddie Vedder

In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing die.

— William Shakespeare

Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business.

— John Perry Barlow

There's a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary.

— Trevor Dunn

An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.

— Jaron Lanier