I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
Liverpool was an industrial town, a poor town. The people fought hard for what they wanted to achieve and there was a… — Pete Best Copy Share Image
I never look at myself as a closet actor wanting to make music or a closet musician wanting to act — I’m… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
There won't ever be a mass-market record industry again, and that's fine with me because that industry didn't operate for the benefit… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I consider that success for anything, whether it's being a musician or a writer. As long as you can support yourself, you're… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
God is the Supreme Musician. It is He who is playing with us, on us and in us. We cannot separate God… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out of… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
If politically infused music is denied airplay, music reviews or festival stage time because it is considered "politics" rather than "art", then… — Moddi Copy Share Image
School of Rock. The best music school anywhere. This whole idea of getting kids not just taking lessons and learning notes and… — Dee Snider Copy Share Image
I never have been a musician; I'm not actually capable. Because I can't even pretend to acquire the gift, all of my… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I could sing and play as well. I've got some brothers; one of them is the drummer in the band. They're good… — Jonathan Rhys Meyers Copy Share Image
I see that you believe in love such as the poets and romancers have represented... The poets represent love as the sculptors… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
A lot of the musicians asked me if when I hit my high-Cs on the records I had a clarinet take the… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
In order for a musician to grow, he's got to pay his dues. Some musicians ask me, 'well, what do you mean?… — Woody Shaw Copy Share Image
I think all musicians and producers, they know the real goal is to come up with a record that is entertaining and… — Black Francis Copy Share Image
Well, it'll always be disco/electro-pop. That's what I first wanted to do when I started out as a musician in 1977. It's… — Pete Burns Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a singer. I wanted to be a musician. I wanted to travel and write songs and be a… — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
To date, [Wynton] Marsalis has received a total of nine Grammy Awards; a Pulitzer Prize (the first ever awarded to a jazz… — Randy Sandke Copy Share Image
Many of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives to try to become pertinent. And, at the end of the… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I just love the process of working with other actors. It's like jamming with a musician, except it takes a little more… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
There are street artists. Street musicians. Street actors. But there are no street physicists. A little known secret is that a physicist… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I have always dreamt of becoming an artist, and I have always pursued that dream. But I’ve had to realize, that I… — Finn Juhl Copy Share Image
As a composer you want to tell musicians two completely contradictory things. You want to say, "Play exactly what I wrote, but… — Nico Muhly Copy Share Image
I liked rock music going back to the '60s, but I never ever had any desire to be a rock musician and… — Glenn Branca Copy Share Image
Music is the most important thing. I'm thinking of my future. There has to be something new, and I want to be… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
I just hope that I'll stay around musically for as long as I can. I love to think that I will still… — George Michael Copy Share Image
Life is one big road with lots of signs, So when you riding through the ruts, Don't you complicate your mind Flee… — Bob Marley Copy Share Image
A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don’t feel great about,… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
Bird's mind and fingers work with incredible speed. He can imply four chord changes in a melodic pattern where another musician would… — Leonard Feather Copy Share Image
A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a… — Levon Helm Copy Share Image
I've grown to love California: It's the dream of every English musician to come here and work in the sunshine. To walk… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
Musicians are affected by the audience just as much as audiences are affected by the musicians. The only problem is that often… — Hamid Drake Copy Share Image
A lot of people know Dad the musician. We've always known him as Dad - who could be corny, funny, serious at… — Cedella Marley Copy Share Image
Jazz is the greatest American art form and our greatest export. We don't pay attention to the youth of jazz, don't stoke… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
I find the fact that so few people buy albums to be strangely emancipating. There's absolutely no reason for 99% of musicians… — Moby Copy Share Image
My dad studied at the American Conservatory in Chicago, so he lived on all those streets. He said the war probably saved… — Kim Basinger Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything,… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my… — Toots Thielemans Copy Share Image
![“A lot of the musicians asked me if when I hit my high-Cs on the records I had a clarinet take the notes. Some [thought] I had invented some kind of gadget so I could play high register. They weren't satisfied until they handed me a trumpet that they had with them and had me swing it. Then they…” quote by Louis Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0c7/louis-armstrong-7258_clarinet_a-lot-of-the-musicians-asked-me-if-when_2020402.jpg)
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