Musician Quotes · Page 8

I never really thought about becoming a professional musician.

— John Mayall

“Create with the heart; build with the mind.”

— Criss Jami

I'm not a musician, I just play bass.

— Bill Wyman

I'm a Christian, but I'm just an artist. I'm a musician.

— NF

You've got to create the space, then fill it.

— Chick Corea

I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.

— Abdullah Ibrahim

The shelf life of an artist or musician isn't particularly long.

— Frances Bean Cobain

I'd rather be a musician than a rockstar.

— George Harrison

I don't think you can be a good musician if you just listen to rap, or just the [type of music] you…

— Freddie Gibbs

My name's Darren. I'm a musician, part time idiot. That's a full time job actually.

— Darren Criss

Now as a musician, if you have it within you, you can create your own reality. Believe me, it's a novelty.

— Chris Robinson

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

— Lana Del Rey

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

— James Paxton

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

— Herbie Hancock

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

— Billy Joel

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

— Paul McCartney

In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part…

— David Amram

There's still a lot I need to do as a player, as a musician, as a sound creator. I have commissioned 170…

— Evelyn Glennie

We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on…

— Chad Smith

There are so many great players walking the planet but it is rare to find musicians that can live life together in…

— Crowder

Every young person is going to be inspired to be a maker from now on. It's like how everyone used to want…

— will.i.am

Musicians from the beginning of time have been there to express the mood and the musical feelings in the air for whatever's…

— Trey Anastasio

Paul McCartney is a genius ... Paul married Rock & Roll to beauty, and forever raised the bar for composers, musicians, and…

— Alec Baldwin

I believe that the only excuse we have for being musicians and for making music in any fashion, is to make it…

— Glenn Gould

It's like this when you fall hard for a musician. It's a crush with religious overtones. You listen to the songs and…

— Steve Almond

The guys that I played with, Hollis Dixon and the Keynotes - just about all the great musicians from Muscle Shoals.We played…

— Donnie Fritts

There are certain records from the 80s and early 90s that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go…

— Beck

I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that whether it's Indian…

— A. R. Rahman

When I worked with General Electric, again this was soon after the Second World War, you know, I was keeping up with…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the…

— Jacques-Louis David

I think a lot of electronic musicians are drawn to starting with texture because the whole reason we're working with electronics is…

— Dan Deacon

“This writer, he was going on about the lyrics to "Champagne Supernova", and he actually said to me: ‘You know, the one…

— Noel Gallagher

Musicians own music because music owns them.

— Virgil Thomson

musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.

— Carolyn Wells

I confess to being a frustrated musician.

— Stella McCartney

I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.

— Diana Krall

You're a musician, it is important that you suffer!

— Russell Brand

I consider myself more of a producer and a musician than a DJ.

— Kygo

People want to build musicians into mythical beings.

— PJ Harvey

Being a musician in Texas had its own set of risks.

— Dusty Hill