Musician Quotes · Page 52

Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.

— Lana Del Rey

Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners.

— Herbie Hancock

I have a hard time even calling myself a musician, but I still have to be involved in music in some capacity…

— James Paxton

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.

— Billy Joel

I hope to star in a biopic of some musician, so I could do their impression and get into their minds and…

— Melissa Villasenor

My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

— Paul McCartney

I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff.

— Robyn Hitchcock

What costs the world to you as a working kid fresh out of college costs nothing to you as a successful musician.

— G-Eazy

I think a politician would be very, very cool to play. Or an American musician of some sort, or like an American…

— Jake Abel

I can tell for sure, the technologists have made it clear that they don't care about musicians. The arts have been sacrificed…

— T Bone Burnett

If we want to be musicians, dancers or sportspeople, we can download a certain amount and watch DVDs and read books, but…

— Tenzin Palmo

To me, groups of musicians playing together, not fighting each other, but playing a groove together is one of the most exciting…

— Phil Collins

How did I end up right here wit you after all the things that I been through. It's been one of those…

— Drake

“Chris was in the rocker, fully clothed, and was strumming idly on Cory's guitar. "Dance, ballerina, dance," he softly chanted, and his…

— V.C. Andrews

I am a rock & roll man, and therefore, a denim man. Musicians of any era - whether it be The Beatles,…

— Renzo Rosso

I think that today, in Europe at least, people don't tend to think so much about the instrument that is producing the…

— Michala Petri

Many musicians are fabulously skilled at playing the black dots on the printed page, but mystified by how the dots got there…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

I rented a summer home in the winter on Long Island, I took long walks, and then I ended up moving to…

— June Millington

Even as a fan, as someone who's into his performances, the Stooges and his own stuff, Iggy [Pop] is one of the…

— Babatunde Adebimpe

When I was younger, I had conversations with friends about wanting to create something different. Every young musician probably thinks that. But…

— FKA twigs

The first time you have a little success, some good feedback, you start imagining having a career, or being a professional musician.…

— Erik Wiegand

It doesn't matter if it's jazz or not. It's about how we listen, how we interact, how we guide our attention when…

— Vijay Iyer

With mimicry, with praises, with echoes, or with answers, the poets have all but outsung the bell. The inarticulate bell has found…

— Alice Meynell

You know I really don't like to think about the fact that I'm a girl in relation to the music industry. I…

— Lacey Mosley

If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the…

— Buddy Rich

Be a famous musician. Be a famous act or. Be a famous write r. Be a famous basketball player. Be famous.

— Dallas Clayton

I really wanted to be a musician, but it turned out I had no sense of time.

— Tom Perrotta

A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?

— Robert Glasper

I've been programmed to be an actor. So when I figured out I wanted to be a rock star or a musician,…

— Jesse Rutherford

I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music.

— Zach Braff

Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.

— Georg Solti

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

— David Bowie

I think that's the graveyard of musicians, playing cabaret. I think I'd rather be dead than work in cabaret. It's just so…

— Elton John

As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely.

— Roberta Flack

What’d I tell you about musicians? That bad boy type will only break your heart.

— Stephanie Perkins

When you're not successful as a musician, you are oftentimes unemployed.

— Tobias Forge

I am a musician before a writer, and a drawer before a writer. When I lose sight of that, which I do,…

— Brian Chippendale

I wanted to play music. I didn't think about where it would go or what it would do.

— Charlie Simpson

I'd been through crappy day jobs and stupid garage bands. I was determined to make it as a musician.

— Paul Westerberg

For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community — connectors and openers, not untouchable stars.

— Amanda Palmer