Musician Quotes · Page 38

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with…

— Abraham Maslow

A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that…

— Franz Grillparzer

Some musicians are not great technicians, but they give you a rich point of view.

— Nathan Milstein

Getting this caliber of musicians together [for "90 Millas" CD in September of 2007] is almost impossible to do again.

— Gloria Estefan

Every musician writes about past relationships. And other than that, I can promise you, I have very little in common with Taylor…

— Tom Odell

The more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become.

— Dan Bejar

I was a musician for years before I started doing this stuff. Show business was the only thing I ever considered.

— Miguel Ferrer

I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked.

— Tori Amos

There's all these musicians in the world, and anybody that takes enough time to create a record or even think about the…

— Ryan Adams

I've got Ph.D. just because I enjoyed reading and writing and didn't know what else to do. It was something fun to…

— Tim Hecker

Hearing Oscar Peterson was something that resonated within me. There are so many musicians I've been fortunate to play with. The people…

— Eldar Djangirov

It's tough to be in a relationship with a musician, because it reads sometimes as this ego and self-involvement when it's really…

— David Sanborn

I think that there are a lot of things that come along with being a musician, but I don't want to whine…

— Tift Merritt

If I wasn't acting, I'd try and be a footballer. I wouldn't be a musician because I can't write my own music.…

— Jamie Blackley

One of my really good friends in New York is a musician and looks just like Lindsay Buckingham. We always fancied ourselves…

— Lauren Cohan

I don't have to forsake my career as a musician. I know how to write songs - that's not going to leave…

— Billy Squier

My dad is an engineer by trade but worked a lot with the people in the Indian film industry when I was…

— Meera Menon

The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. No…

— Helen Keller

I always say that you should just listen to it and see what you think it sounds like it is. I don't…

— Tinsel Korey

I wish I could say differently, but I really don't think so. There are too many musicians already for probably anyone to…

— Varg Vikernes

Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much…

— Kurt Vonnegut

As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the…

— Lauryn Hill

I would be happy if I could meet some musicians interested in different acoustics and traditional music. Maybe I will find some…

— Albert Kuvezin

Ironically, I must admit that I have an easier time (myself) playing games that are really simple and non-realistic - like the…

— Mark Walton

More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context.

— Rosanne Cash

You don't want to make records so you can win a Grammy. You make records because you want to be a musician.

— Kurt Elling

I don't think of myself as "a lesbian musician." It's not one and alone. I think of myself as a musician.

— Michelle Chamuel

My husband is a musician, and 'Paste' is one of his favorite places to be interviewed by.

— Claire Coffee

There was a very famous musician in our family. He was a great violinist, an internationally known teacher. He was Leopold Auer.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

I'm 90% performer, 10% musician. I've always said that Gossip are a band I would go see, not a band I would listen to.

— Beth Ditto

Lady Gaga is one of the most amazingly talented musicians to bring her gifts to humanity in a long time.

— Jared Polis

I'm trying everything I can not to be jaded 'cause I don't like jaded musicians.

— John Mayer

I think the death knell for any musician is getting a job that you like and pays enough that you just stay…

— Wesley Schultz

I don't want to be looked at as just that guy with the best mixtape of the year. I want to be,…

— Logic

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

— Rita Ora

I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.

— St. Vincent

The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.

— Duke Ellington

I'd been trained as a classical musician, but also as a pop musician. My teacher made sure that everything was available.

— Jeanine Tesori

The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.

— Sun Ra

I did art; I made furniture. I didn't want to be a cliche - the Beatle's son who became a musician.

— James McCartney