Musician Quotes · Page 6

My dad was a great musician.

— Noah Kahan

The whole process of this record was an education for me as a musician.

— Kenneth Edmonds

Musicians are in-season all the time.

— John Legend

I trained a bit in music because of my brother, who is a musician.

— Richa Chadha

I'm a painter first, and a musician second.

— Joni Mitchell

Feed the musician, and he's out of tune.

— George Crabbe

I've been a live musician since I started my musical career.

— Santhosh Narayanan

If I wasn't a musician... I think I'd just be endlessly traveling.

— Ben Howard

I like Flea, I like him as a musician.

— Ziggy Marley

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

I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck…

— Nat King Cole

It's hard to find other musicians that push you to go somewhere new all the time.

— Jack White

As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit.

— Kevin Nealon

I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.

— Robyn Hitchcock

I think The Sunset Tree is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.

— John Darnielle

I gave up that idea of trying to make music that I thought other people would want. I just made music for…

— Daniel Powter

Miranda [Hentoff] is a complete musician. She's a composer, a singer. She writes scripts along - with her projects. And she's a…

— Nat Hentoff

What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It's the old thing, what you want written on…

— Keith Richards

If you are a musician and you dont show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people…

— Michael Schenker

I was very drawn to music of all types, from Beethoven to Jimi Hendrix. There were musicians and composers who obviously were…

— Frederick Lenz

My priorities now a a musician are so different now than they were as a kid. Everyone wants to be a rock…

— Blake Judd

We [musicians] are comfortable in front of the camera doing music videos, and it's almost a form of acting when we're doing…

— Ludacris

When I went on tour with my father, I knew he was a musician. But they were my parents. I still think…

— Georgia May Jagger

It is not a lack of spiritual experience that leads to failure, but a lack of working to keep our eyes focused…

— Oswald Chambers

When you write a song you're more or less saying, "This is everyone. I think this is everyone." It doesn't necessarily have…

— Anthony Green

For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad tiny tremors. The notes know no rest,…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

People equate job titles to levels of creativity. We think that musicians are creative while accountants are not. Job title has nothing…

— Josh Linkner

I have no problem with religion, and I grew up with a strong curiosity about spiritual matters, but my searching took me…

— Eric Clapton

It can be difficult to mediate a compromise between what I have in my head and what the musician has in mind,…

— John Dyer Baizley

I think that female musicians are constantly fighting an uphill battle in general. Even when I'm not writing heartbreak songs... the fact…

— Marissa Nadler

A lot of people are really quick to say, "That song sounds like this." Or you - "He's tryin' to sound like…

— Bruno Mars

I used to think I wouldn't be happy being anything but a musician.

— JP Saxe

A musician's whole life is to listen.

— Wynton Marsalis

Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere.

— Mike Zwerin

I think most musicians do like to have a laugh.

— Neil Innes

I came from a huge extended family of musicians.

— Jake Epstein

I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.

— Patti Smith

“I make music to be a musician, not to be on the cover of a playboy.”

— Anonymous