Musician Quotes · Page 50

The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.

— David Byrne

Growing up with my dad being a musician, it seemed like a male centric world to me. I just didn't know many…

— Lola Kirke

Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.

— Benny Goodman

“You can be known as the most beautiful woman who ever crawled across cut glass to make a deal”

— Bob Dylan

I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician.

— Juliana Hatfield

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

— Nat Hentoff

At one point, I was thinking about going to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, but then I realized it's actually not what…

— Alycia Debnam-Carey

It is only the most elite of elite musicians whose unconventional approach becomes convention.

— Steve Vai

I was worried that I didn't have as many Facebook 'likes' as another musician. You can almost feel like a failure if…

— Erika M. Anderson

I guess fortunate that I'm still around and I emphasize I guess because you never can tell what musicians would be playing…

— Sonny Rollins

It's all about synthesis, you don't have to be a real musician. You just synthesize your own reality, synthesize your own talents.…

— Klayton

To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

Grace Kelly was written after these musicians were trying to mold me into what I should be. I was really angry and…

— Mika

It is long been a principal of ours that one is no more armed because he has possession of a firearm than…

— Jeff Cooper

Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however,…

— Alfred Einstein

I've been asked why does Ireland produce so many great musicians, and the answer is it doesn't. When you count the great…

— Roddy Doyle

I was deeply influenced by the sartorial practices of both preachers and jazz musicians and actually Masha in Act One of Anton…

— Cornel West

I never really liked the lyrics or the sameness of the music. It always seemed to have the same rhythm or whatever.…

— P. J. Soles

I didn't want my records to sound like anybody else, and when I've got my guys in the studio, I have a…

— Jason Aldean

In 1992 I was doing one of my first ever tours and I was in Heathrow airport and I saw these middle-aged…

— Moby

“My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a straight job like…

— Tom Waits

There are always going to be people that are judgmental that are going to say, 'Well, he was an actor first, so…

— Jared Leto

So for all that we might speak words in each other's vicinity, this could never develop into anything that could be called…

— Haruki Murakami

As a journalist, I never critiqued anyone. I never review books. I've never felt qualified as a musician to say whether someone…

— James McBride

Communicating with musicians is really interesting because everyone has their quirks and their strengths and their weaknesses.

— Flying Lotus

Me and success are two things you don't wanna find yo ass between. Back against the wall like plasma screens.

— Drake

I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.

— Cass McCombs

I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me

— Rosanna Arquette

...The key to playing with any group is you listen all the time and you listen more than you play.

— John Scofield

I don't hate being compared with female musicians. I don't mind that at all. I have no problem with seeing connections between…

— Ani DiFranco

I'm not trying to save the world. As a musician and artist, it just ain't me.

— Curtis Jackson

In a lot of minds, God is big enough to raise dead people, but He's not big enough to deal with our…

— Jason Upton

I had no direction. I thought, 'I need to make a difference in my life,' and music was my answer.

— Gerard Way

There is nothing normal about a musician's lifestyle; I don't have a nine-to-five job at the post office.

— Robin Thicke

A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.

— Keith Richards

I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start…

— Damon Albarn

Critics or musicians who attack me are jealous of my success and the fact that I make people feel so happy.

— Andre Rieu

When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by…

— Jonathan Tropper

I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.

— Peabo Bryson

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

— Billy Joel