Musician Quotes · Page 46

I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the…

— Elton John

I never sought out a record deal. It caught me with my pants down. I was just a musician doing my thing,…

— Jamie Cullum

For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

— Charles Hazlewood

As a producer, I like to bring in unexpected voices, unexpected musicians, like Watt and Joey Spampinato of NRBQ.

— M. Ward

Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.

— Dodie Smith

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin,…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

When I was boy, all I ever wanted to be was a musician. I'm so grateful I get to do it.

— James Bowen

I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.

— Zooey Deschanel

Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen…

— George Bernard Shaw

When I perform, I don’t think about the haters, the Internet trolls, or anyone else. I care about giving the person in…

— Steve Aoki

As the musician straineth his strings, and yet he breaketh none of them, but maketh thereby a sweeter melody and better concord;…

— Daniel Cawdry

I don't really like to call myself a brand, and I don't like to think of myself as a brand. I'm a…

— Beyonce Knowles

I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hard-core bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians…

— Bruce Springsteen

Don't cheat yourself out of music. Music is one thing. The music business is another thing. Save enough of yourself to keep…

— Bill Withers

My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor.…

— Bryce Courtenay

Surrounding myself with people I enjoy being with made the sessions effortless. Everyone came prepared and ready to play. All were great…

— Stanley Clarke

I want to change and try new ideas - allowing your sonic identity to evolve in your music and not being afraid…

— Alex Kapranos

Bourbon Street is like playing, a tourist, you know? It's just a tourist attraction ... those musicians on Bourbon Street, they play…

— Troy Andrews

There is a view that jazz is 'evil' because it comes from evil people, but actually the greatest priests on 52nd Street…

— Garth Hudson

Who should have children? Those who are responsible and completely dedicated to the responsibility which is actually a very small percentage of…

— Paul Watson

I want to live in a world where Miley (or any female musician) can twerk wildly at 20, wear a full-cover floral…

— Amanda Palmer

When the film and music industries declined in the wake of increasingly conservative Muslim laws and social customs in Pakistan, many of…

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Artists have been used over and over again since the early 1980s as the legitimizers of a neighborhood in New York. And…

— Sharon Zukin

I have a musician friend who, after reading Mountains, told me, "When I read the book, I wanted to quit music altogether…

— Regine Chassagne

You don't find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn't mean to say you can't be really good.

— Jimmy Page

Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with [referring to crystal methamphetamines]”

— Fergie

A genius! For 37 years I've practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!

— Pablo de Sarasate

We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians.

— Khalil Gibran

You kind of hope as a musician that you get some recognition for what you do, and when you do, it's nice.…

— Alex Clare

I wanted to be a writer since I was a little girl - long before I was a musician and a songwriter.

— Juliana Hatfield

I don't play for the guitarists in the audience. I play for the musicians.

— Frank Gambale

I never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist.

— Pete Seeger

What I like about being a musician is that I find the thing soothing, but I also give the soothing to other…

— Sinead O'Connor

I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in…

— Ray Stevens

I've been collaborating with Ira Schickman on some songs, and there will be many other, great musicians involved.

— Chaka Khan

My mom really wanted me to be a musician so she gave me a guitar for my fifth birthday, but I didn't…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

Spirituality is worthless if it's not practical. Music is my work. I am a musician.

— John McLaughlin

The person I would trust the most is my mom. She's just really creative... She's a playwright and she's a musician.

— Jazmine Sullivan

So I cradle this average violin that knows Only forgotten showtunes, but argues The possibility of free declamation anchored To a dull…

— John Ashbery