Musician Quotes · Page 34

Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer.

— Bobby Vinton

You must remember I grew up around music. Three of my family were musicians.

— Lori Singer

I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.

— Anonymous

I never thought of myself as successful. I have just done what I love to do. I appreciate that I can continue…

— Taeyang

I love being a musician. I love the lifestyle. But I think it's probably as difficult and frustrating as anything.

— Trevor Dunn

I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do…

— Yoko Ono

“A composer who can lift the spirit of a million people with a song, is a definite force for good.”

— Abhijit Naskar

People unfortunately think that if you progress as a musician you are wimpy. I don't get that.

— Chuck Schuldiner

I'm not a things person. I'm not one to keep much. I do have a small collection of picks from favorite musicians…

— Chris Wyse

Your development as a musician will come to an eventual standtill if you do not develop yourself as a human being. Only…

— Carl Orr

Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like…

— Marilyn Monroe

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

— Bono

I don't think my skill level is up there as a musician. I think I'm best at writing in general. The musicians…

— Ian Simpson

I hope America sees I am a goofy guy andI'm kind a crazy, I hope they see that I am a musician…

— Casey Abrams

I started as a musician, then I was a singer. I sang with the band. Then I was an actor in the…

— Hal Linden

Music is not everything in life. If a young musician looks at it that way, then he can just play his instrument…

— Joe Zawinul

The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he's a…

— Brian Eno

I started thinking, my gosh, all this sophisticated software for measuring how Yo-Yo plays, and how he moves and this technique of…

— Tod Machover

We can and should place special emphasis on developing in our youth constructive incentives - a love of science, engineering, and math,…

— Ezra Taft Benson

I don't really think of these as projects. I think of them as bands. I have tried to not just convene a…

— Dave Douglas

There were so many bands in New Orleans. But most of the musicians had day jobs, you know -- trades. They were…

— Zutty Singleton

There's the beauty of the stage. I don't like filmed theater or opera because you're kind of playing soccer in a hockey…

— Christoph Waltz

I personally see myself as a musician in the first place. You know, I don't want to say I will be a…

— Zedd

I'd done all my research and seen that Booker and Gadson had worked with giant folks and little peanuts, too. That just…

— Kelly Hogan

A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren't as smart as me...

— Mark E. Smith

There's nothing I like more than a writer who can sing, or a musician who has a book out.

— John Wesley Harding

Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace, is drawn away from love of the things he tells to love of…

— C. S. Lewis

“We strive hard for excellence in the music, while striving even harder for change outside the music.”

— R-swift

Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians.

— Morton Feldman

Even though it's become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it's still effective and it still has to…

— George Michael

A part of being a female musician is kind of getting past your looks and just honing in on the music.

— Weyes Blood

If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician…

— Billy Eckstine

Musicians ultimately are who they are, they aren't actors, so as a clipmaker you have a responsibility to protect them.

— Adria Petty

My dad was a musician, and that was his first love, and I think probably, to be really honest, it was my…

— Kim Basinger

To be a good musician, you need to give people what they want, what they need.

— Andy Grammer

I assume there must be some kind of genetic thrust. My two grandmothers were very different, but both of them were frustrated…

— Joni Mitchell

My parents are artists, so I grew up with my mom having bonfires, seven guitars, and talented musicians and artists around like…

— Amber Tamblyn

“It's my fucking life and you know what, nobody invited you...so there's the door...see ya!”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

The only two things that ever came naturally to me are music and investing.

— Troy Carter

Well, I started out as a musician, so when I was about 10 years old, I was already in a band.

— Tommy Chong