Musician Quotes · Page 39

Most musicians don't write about being a musician cause most musicians aren't writers.

— Dan Bejar

Jazz musicians are the coolest people on the planet. Can I have some cool?

— Jon Stewart

I really like Katy Perry and the music she does. She's an amazing musician and it's an honour to be opening for…

— Aino Jawo

I don't talk about my personal life. But the relationships I've had have usually been with other musicians. It's just easier that…

— Shelby Lynne

Pushing yourself and digging into something new, that's what being a musician is all about.

— Orianthi

No matter what comes your way, being a musician, you will never, ever learn to play it all.

— Joey Jordison

Hawaiian to me is a feeling of getting somewhere, without stepping on anybodys toes, without causing friction with anybody.

— Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty.

— Bertrand Russell

It's been important to me to be a good activist, a good thinker, a good musician, a good singer, and a good…

— Holly Near

I'm an example of someone who never made it to university. I did have this dream to be a musician. I felt…

— Eddie Vedder

I guess I've never been introduced properly to Pink Floyd. I know they're great, don't get me wrong. Excellent, excellent musicians; great…

— Phil Anselmo

People expect you to be this weird cartoon sometimes when you're a musician. I hate that. I hate standing out. I hate…

— Katy B

In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I was lucky enough to first meet Elvis at his house in Bel Air and he used to invite different artists, singers…

— Jackie DeShannon

I'm a terrible musician. While the band members are great, I'm tolerated and affectionately regarded because I do movies, but if I…

— Woody Allen

And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be…

— Katey Sagal

Frank [Zappa] always wanted to do a sound library - he sampled so many great musicians. For piano, for example, he sampled…

— Gail Zappa

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 didn't really think I would be a musician. I always thought I'd be a writer. I wanted to be a writer…

— Leah Siegel

I don't really have a career as a jazz musician. I don't really have a career as a classical musician. I don't…

— Paul Smoker

So Nemerov showed us this picture, which is of Apollo flaying Marcius. You don't think of Apollo as being the sort of…

— Larkin Grimm

To be honest, I've never looked really hard for musicians. I'll just randomly meet people. I've never interviewed bandmates or anything like…

— Mary Timony

One of the reasons my father ... became a dentist was so he could always be home for dinner and spend weekends…

— Dean Ornish

I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond…

— Max Roach

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

If I write songs and I think they sound good, then that's it. That's what I do. I'm not a technical musician,…

— Creed Bratton

Music has always been my first love, and I appreciate how a great musician can bring awareness to tough issues through their…

— Kerby Jean-Raymond

Music was never a priority for me, and I seriously do not know how I got so big.

— Momina Mustehsan

I feel like musicians have such a precarious place in the political discourse, because musicians are, sort of just by nature, people-pleasers.

— John Flansburgh

Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music…

— Nick Cave

The majority of the people I work with are more than musicians and singers, they are personal friends and friends help each…

— George Duke

If you're making money people don't think you're playing Jazz. When you're not making money they think you're a great Jazz musician.

— Pete Fountain

I wanted to be a comedian long before I wanted to be a musician, for sure.

— Weyes Blood

I want to write, and... yeah, just the normal things a musician should do.

— Ruel

One musician listens to another musician, and you get inspired and then you do your thing, but it's yours.

— Lenny Kravitz

By the year 2000, I want to be the first Latin musician to play on the moon.

— Tito Puente

“No man sings as beautifully as when his song is accompanied by a woman’s voice.”

— Roman Payne

“When can you understand that the music you play is very good? It is when people look at you but see no…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I can sing, but I consider myself a bass player. I'm, you know, a musician first.

— Michael Anthony

“I don't look at music from the standpoint of being a musician; I look at it from the standpoint of being a…

— Herbie Hancock