Musician Quotes · Page 33

As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get…

— Flea

I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated.

— Rick Springfield

Solomon was a musician and David was a musician, so it's a profession that I take seriously.

— Sixto Rodriguez

I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians.

— Michael Nyman

The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy…

— Joe Elliott

I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician.

— John Lydon

What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?

— Nellie Melba

We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an…

— Lance Bass

Then I was lucky I met with my future husband, and I started new life with my husband, and I was happy…

— Olga Korbut

My brother and I grew up in a musical family. We have an older sister who sings and plays the piano. Our…

— Laura Allen

I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and…

— Eric Clapton

Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling…

— Maurice Saatchi

As worship leaders we might use music as a tool, but music is only ever just that - a tool with which…

— Reuben Morgan

I always wanted to be a musician from when I was kid. It was always a massive dream of mine. School was…

— Emeli Sande

A conundrum of music is that music brings people together, yet to become a skilled musician involves a certain amount of lonely…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

I don't like every other musician's work. The same way that filmmakers don't like every other filmmakers' work. Just because I'm a…

— Kathleen Hanna

I don't consider myself very principled. As a travelling musician, you have to adapt and adjust to different contexts every day. It…

— Moddi

I think there's a difference between the type of folk music that people put into the box of "folk music" and then…

— Christopher Paul Stelling

It is not ignoble to feel that the fuller life which a sad experience has brought us is worth our personal share…

— George Eliot

I was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and am a product of a family that were jazz aficionados and also very interested in…

— Jack Waters

'Cause a musician, you can't tell me, "I've got this message I want share with the public," and it's three-and-a-half minutes long.…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

One good thing about a good book or a good film, or maybe even a song, I'm not a musician but I…

— Kleber Mendonca Filho

Over all, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the…

— John Coltrane

To be a musician is a great privilege but it is also a very great responsibility. One must think that to be…

— Pablo Casals

We all grew up idolizing another musician. That's how this works. That's how music is created.

— Bruno Mars

Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.

— Mike Birbiglia

I was doing something of my own after I left The Moody Blues, I went away, lived in Spain for a while.

— Denny Laine

“And if the day I die they ask me just how heaven was, I'll be glad I spent it with you.”

— Brian Logan Dales

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they…

— John Zorn

If you're trying to connect to people with music - it's more of an outward process and a lot of times musicians…

— Dave Grohl

I am a musician who stopped working with music. Now I work with visual music, or audio-visual music.

— Kurt Ralske

Every musician tries to blend in some reggae. It's the only music that brings all people together, different races, different religions.

— Burning Spear

I'm a big believer that an actor should be able to pick up any piece of material and act it, the way…

— Martin Landau

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the…

— Alan Greenspan

I just got into music very heavily as a kid and I pretty much knew I wanted to be a musician.

— Michael Penn

A lot of my friends are musicians or artists, and their talent always pushes me to think creatively.

— Erin Willett

These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.

— Marilyn Manson

I download music just like anybody else, but it's a weird relationship when you're a musician.

— Tim Hecker

It doesn't matter if you are a musician, a business leader, a president or a student. We all have a responsibility to…

— Shakira

When you talk like an asshole and look like an asshole, you're an asshole

— John Lydon