Musician Quotes · Page 30

I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.

— Patti Smith

I can tell for sure, the technologists have made it clear that they don't care about musicians. The arts have been sacrificed…

— T Bone Burnett

I absolutely adore and idolise women. All women. I think they are all amazing. The female musicians I've met have been far…

— Robert Plant

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're…

— Bruce Jenner

Boulez's only concern is with power. He lost the leadership of the avant-guard more than ten years ago to Stockhausen. Now others…

— Lukas Foss

I came to L.A. in 1970, and my desire and my training was to be a studio musician, which I had read…

— Harvey Mason, Jr

Success is nice, but it shouldn't be the only reason why you're a musician.

— Chester Bennington

I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be…

— Lester Bowie

I thought - being a musician doesn't help your medical credibility really. Although I started to rethink that when I learned that…

— Neal Barnard

It's easy for people to mistake most musicians as living the easy life. It takes a while to get to that point.…

— Chaz Bundick

Newspapers and magazines didn't want pictures of musicians behaving badly back then. Now, because of the Internet, that's all the media wants.

— Mick Rock

The new king [Alexander the Great] should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future…

— Plutarch

I'm not that type of musician where I can sit down at the piano and work out a song; I actually really…

— Dave Gahan

But I needed to prove to everyone that I was a serious musician.

— Jonny Lang

Up until the rise of electronic music, if you were a musician in Portugal or Germany or Italy or Japan, and you…

— Moby

You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste. In…

— Bradford Cox

If the records that I make have one thing in common, it's that there is little recapitulation, and the idea is that…

— David Grubbs

I think it's a shame when you come across young actors and musicians who haven't had the time to learn their craft.…

— Denis Leary

[Slogan of her 'Trouble Bureau' for needy artists and musicians:] Happiness is a change of trouble.

— Malvina Hoffman

Oh, I'm a martyr to music.

— Dylan Thomas

I'm not a musician - I'm a ham.

— Ozzy Osbourne

In London, the most, the biggest thing we have is culture, you know what I mean? That's what we've done for the…

— Kate Tempest

And you realise you're doing a public service in making people happy - as a musician you can give people something a…

— Billy Ocean

“I remember when Elvis died. I wrote my sentiments with words of a little girl in my dear diary, "Many people wanted…

— Ana Claudia Antunes

I used to want to be a singer and a musician for years, from 6 years old to today. I'm not really…

— Tommy Davidson