Musician Quotes · Page 58

I actually started as a singer in Brooklyn, and I lived in a community. To get out of the ghetto of my…

— Charlemagne Palestine

I never believed - or knew for sure - if I would be able to make a professional life in music. But…

— Gordon Lightfoot

I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because…

— Nat King Cole

When a musician is conveying that fresh feeling, that's what appeals to me, even more so than the style.

— Joseph Trapanese

Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

— Billy Bob Thornton

As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of…

— Sam Palladio

A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.

— Tom Morello

I've done my share of busking, and it's fun until it isn't. There are musicians in the subways that will make you…

— Andrew Bird

It was nine years between my first solo album and the second one. I didn't want it to take that long, and…

— Josh Freese

Steve Lawson is a brilliant musician. I've known about him and listened to him for many years. He may not be one…

— Victor Wooten

I was a very bad musician. I was the world's worst guitar player, so when I was performing solo with a guitar,…

— Loren Mazzacane Connors

“. . . when a woman has a husband And you've got none, Why should she take advice from you? Even if…

— Meredith Willson

It is always the same with me; only when I experience something do I compose, and only when composing do I experience!…

— Gustav Mahler

The poet's perspective of life, the musician's sense of harmony, the artist's eye of proportion and relationships ~ these are all shared…

— Michael Tierra

“And remember whatever discipline you're in, whether you're a musician or a photographer, fine artist or a cartoonist, writer, a dancer, a…

— Neil Gaiman

A musician knows hit material. It has to feel right. Everything has to feel in place. It fulfills you and it makes…

— Michael Jackson

We always have a basic structure for a piece of music, but we encourage the musicians to elaborate on whatever they feel…

— Lisa Gerrard

Meditation practice is like piano scales, basketball drills, ballroom dance class. Practice requires discipline; it can be tedious; it is necessary. After…

— Elizabeth Lesser

Sculpture and painting are very justly called liberal arts; a lively and strong imagination, together with a just observation, being absolutely necessary…

— Lord Chesterfield

Everybody has their own approach to songwriting. When you're an electronic musician, the whole writing process just depends. Some people have a…

— Travis Stewart

If you're listening to a symphony, you're getting all the information, including the audience around you, the delay from the sides of…

— Gordon Hempton

Being a part of a band is easier to brainstorm, and it's fun - you're encouraged and inspired by the others. In…

— Brendan Benson

An actor and a [theatre] director are both what I would call interpreters of work. We interpret a work, just as a…

— George Ogilvie

I don't believe that the Democratic party has anything to do with the Left. We have two political parties in the US:…

— Tom Morello

What I have to do as a musician is do everything that is not on the music.

— Evelyn Glennie

Being a musician doesn't take away your right as a citizen to speak your mind.

— Emily Robison

I always loved music, but it's not something I thought I was gonna approach on a professional level.

— Meital Dohan

There's something extremely fragile about musicians, and that's their strength.

— Lisa Gerrard

I want to show that I'm not a gimmick. I'm a very accomplished musician.

— Sisqo

A lot of people say, 'What's the worst part about being an actor?' And the worst part is that you're not a…

— Paul Rudd

I think one of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.

— Jon Anderson

“We’d play to old age pensioners if they’d have us but we don’t have to. The Stones are taking care of that…

— Joe Strummer

I try not to date musicians. It's all I've dated. Every guy I've dated is a musician. Obviously, it's not working.

— Kelly Clarkson

I had a slight inclination towards music but I was clueless about what I wanted to achieve in life.

— Sanjay Mishra

Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.

— Colin Greenwood

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

— Loren Eiseley

As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and…

— Ian Anderson

I've been really lucky as far as the caliber of musicians I've been able to work with each time.

— Brian Warren

I've always wanted to do a solo project. I've always known I wanted to be a musician.

— Kate Pierson

I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.

— Gary Kemp