Musician Quotes · Page 32

I can change the arrangements on stage while I am playing or singing, doing signs to the musicians to change things because…

— Rokia Traore

Many of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives to try to become pertinent. And, at the end of the…

— Wynton Marsalis

I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.'

— Oscar Isaac

Black musicians rhythmicized the contredanse, creating musical styles which evolved into the habanera (also known as the tango) and, later, ragtime, as…

— Ned Sublette

Arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, — finding things ready-made for…

— Edward Weston

Music is the sound of the universal laws promulgated. It is the only assured tone. There are in it such strains as…

— Henry David Thoreau

I never look at myself as a closet actor wanting to make music or a closet musician wanting to act — I’m…

— Jared Leto

Music has always been a big part of Cheech & Chong's career, so it's just natural. You know, I was a musician…

— Tommy Chong

Yeah, we try to get the best musicians possible, and Justin [Robinson] is a great musician, man, a great player. You must…

— Common

Critics or musicians who attack me are jealous of my success and the fact that I make people feel so happy.

— Andre Rieu

I think the most important thing that I can offer young musicians is once you get up on the bandstand, understanding that…

— Bobby Hutcherson

Being a musician is a given for me-I didn't have much choice in the matter.

— Tom Morello

As a songwriter and musician, it strikes me that in music, a certain territorial nature when it comes to one's own autonomy…

— Vanessa Veselka

Love , creativity, and opportunity is in the air. Take it in and do your thing.

— Lenny Kravitz

The records that I like, they have life and warmth and soul in them. Like the slap back on Scotty Moore's guitar…

— Channing Tatum

I learned [playing Chuck Berry] that there's something to be said for the courage of conviction, that sense of belief, being bold…

— Mos Def

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in…

— Bono

The music is the imperative. It has the upper hand. I think all music, even though it's an abstraction, does motivate a…

— Sufjan Stevens

Because I was a chemistry student and was never supposed to be a musician, I always felt like I was an outsider…

— David Lang

I like to call myself a 360-degree artist. I'm a musician, but I have other things I do, too.

— Rita Ora

If I wasn't a musician I'd probably be like a meth addict.

— Nate Ruess

I'm going to be a superstar musician, kill myself, and go out in a flame of glory.

— Kurt Cobain

I was born with music inside me

— Ray Charles

Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.

— Miles Kington

Well, it'll always be disco/electro-pop. That's what I first wanted to do when I started out as a musician in 1977. It's…

— Pete Burns