Musician Quotes · Page 31

I have had some amazing experiences as a musician - even with my modest skills.

— Paul Allen

I've always loved music and held it as a sacred thing that I can't touch, as I don't really want to deconstruct…

— Aaron Koblin

I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.

— Stephen Malkmus

I've always been music-oriented. My dad was a musician, and I listened to the radio all of the time.

— Timothy B. Schmit

Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days.

— Kevin Eubanks

If you put a Mars bar in one of Glenn Hughes’ hands and a bass in the other, he’ll choose the Mars…

— Gary Moore

You can always boil down the life of a musician to touring, playing, and writing.

— Tift Merritt

I wanted to be a music fan who just listens to music. I never wanted to be musician. I didn't gravitate toward…

— Allan Holdsworth

The important thing for any young singer or musician is to keep focused on becoming a better musician as opposed to becoming…

— Gerry Rafferty

The musicians, Duke Ellington, his thing was not about separating himself from the rest of America. Louis Armstrong - go to the…

— Wynton Marsalis

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

If you are a musician and you don't show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people…

— Michael Schenker

I wanted to get my recording and become a musician again, work; with other people, do that kind of thing because I…

— Bootsy Collins

I don't deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn't deserve…

— Quincy Jones

Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining…

— Evan Parker

I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because you want to get…

— Anonymous

I always wanted to be someone in the entertainment industry. In my eighth grade slideshow, when everyone was like "show us what…

— Lilly Singh

I think it's quite tricky for actors to release albums. It's difficult, because I'm an actor, you know, I'm not a musician.…

— Ewan McGregor

You're always in a tunnel that you can't see the end of. But there's something that took place on this movie that…

— Dustin Hoffman

An actor can do a play on Broadway for three years. Every night he's expressing the same emotion in exactly the same…

— Richard Estes

When you make something, if you are a painter or a writer, a degree, or a sculptor or whatever or a musician,…

— Simon McBurney

Our nights didn't begin until after noon. Because in the old days, you'd start Birdland at 8:30 or 9 pm and play…

— Charles Mingus

You become things, you become an atmosphere, and if you become it, which means you incorporate it within you, you can also…

— Ernst Haas

Making information free is survivable so long as only limited numbers of people are disenfranchised. As much as it pains me to…

— Jaron Lanier

“For so long music has been my heart, but now it's you...you're my heart.”

— Cassandra Giovanni

I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.

— Bill Frisell

My family were all musicians. I really wasn't interested in school or anything.

— Tommy Bolin

The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did.

— Wynton Marsalis

We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without…

— Mark Twain

I was pretty scared of the idea as a younger person of being a musician on the road. It didn't occur to…

— Julia Holter

Andy Gullahorn is my favorite new musical discovery of the past five years. He's a brilliant writer, a fine musician and a…

— David LaMotte

I was never planning on being a musician. It's basically a hobby that sprawled out of control.

— DJ Spooky

I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts.

— Hazel Scott

I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my…

— Mike Stoller

“They all believed in him because of the authenticity of his musical talent and his faith in it.”

— Amit Kalantri

The most rewarding experience as a musician is to know that I moved people personally.

— Lari White

Classical musicians go to the conservatories, rock´n roll musicians go to the garages.

— Frank Zappa

'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything…

— Pat Metheny

I got by as a musician since day one. I don't live beyond my means. I have real cheap tastes.

— Chris Isaak

Finding a good bus driver can be as important as finding a good musician.

— Reba McEntire