Musician Quotes · Page 55

To actually get together and make a band record feels like a bit of a big deal, and that can be quite…

— Tracey Thorn

In a lot of groups, you can change a musician, and it doesn't mean anything.

— Robbie Robertson

MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.

— Karlie Kloss

'SNL' is probably one of the premiere outlets that a musician can perform on that isn't obviously a music outlet.

— Miguel

I just make videos and stuff. There's not much more to it than that. I'm a musician trying to express myself.

— Yung Lean

I'm on my feet and I'm doing what I love to do, and I'm in a profession, as a musician, where we…

— Ringo Starr

If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by…

— Brad Paisley

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

— Billy Sherwood

If I had interesting things to say, I would have been a speechwriter. I think it gets to musicians' heads a lot…

— Aesop Rock

Audiences tend to dig the earlier stuff by any given musician, and the artists themselves always tend to prefer the thing that…

— Bradford Cox

There's a lot of variety of musicians in Korea. I cannot say they are the best in the world, but I can…

— PSY

I think that's really important, that kids get exposed to music as soon as they can - not necessarily to become musicians,…

— Joe Perry

I'd have to say that Kenny White has earned a place among my favorite singer/songwritersand particularly, lyricists. As we say in the…

— David Crosby

People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself on the slopes,…

— Vanessa Mae

The real essence of art turned out to be not something high up and far off - it was right inside my…

— Shinichi Suzuki

For me, I work very self-contained. It's literally just me sitting in a room doing it until the very end of the…

— Steven Price

A burst of harmony so brilliant that it almost overwhelmed them surrounded Meg, the cherubim, Calvin, and Mr. Jenkins. But after a…

— Madeleine L'Engle

If our hearts and minds are not properly transformed, we are like musicians playing untuned instruments, or engineers working with broken and…

— Richard Lovelace

Many people, including myself, thought of Jobs as an inventor, an Edison-like figure, but he wasn't. I did a documentary on James…

— Alex Gibney

The Ramones couldn't play in my key. They couldn't switch keys, so Ed Stasium literally had to play all the instruments for…

— P. J. Soles

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds…

— Bill Bruford

The music that I play is much more accepted in America. Do you know what I mean? Americans recognize and not necessarily…

— Fred Eaglesmith

I moved to Portland because Modest Mouse is there. I didn't necessarily mean to live there permanently, but I've got a really…

— Johnny Marr

There are a lot of musicians who are still desperately trying to pretend that it's 1998 and by having a huge marketing…

— Moby

It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.

— Billy Joel

I was an independent musician for ten years before I became a musician for movies.

— Santhosh Narayanan

When I was a little boy, I told my dad, 'When I grow up, I want to be a musician.' My dad…

— Chet Atkins

My family is full of musicians, and a couple of times a year we get together and jam at my cousin's studio.…

— Gabriel Macht

Me and my family, we've all grown so much. I've grown as a musician and entertainer.

— Keyshia Cole

I can only speak for myself - there were times when I just wasn't inspired by creating music.

— Common

When it comes to touch and feel as a musician, style is infinitely more important than chops.

— Kemp Muhl

Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.

— John Szarkowski

Ideally the point of music is community, not the player. Musicians are simply channels to link the audience to the music and…

— Trey Anastasio

Aside from comic book heroes, the only real life heroes I had were musicians.

— Andy Biersack

[Louis Armstrong] was the only musician who ever lived, who can't be replaced by someone.

— Bing Crosby

Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound…

— Mark Twain

“You can take and nail two sticks together like they've never been nailed together before and some fool will buy it.”

— George Carlin

I feel that musicians are in a fellowship, and that fellowship is a responsibility.

— Meshell Ndegeocello

I have musician friends who play too much golf, and they're not as good at music anymore.

— Raphael Saadiq

That's for non-musicians to say: "I only listen to this or that type of music." I think musicians love all music, or…

— Paul Banks