Musician Quotes · Page 98

The ability for a woman to orally satisfy somebody in a rock band, that's important to a rock 'n' roll musician.

— Chad Kroeger

When I was a kid growing up in Kentucky, on lucky summer nights, my cousin would pick me up in his Chevy…

— Chris Frantz

I always loved the look of musicians. I've always admired them because they have a look - when I was growing up,…

— Frida Giannini

To say that the Afro American created jazz doesn't mean anything bad about Anglo Americans, and I always teach my younger jazz…

— Wynton Marsalis

I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly…

— Eric Clapton

Obviously, I want to be taken seriously as a musician.

— Laufey

“Playing an instrument is its own reward. Cleaning out a spit valve is its own punishment.”

— Peter James West

I never set out to be a rock star, I set out to be a working musician.

— Steve Miller

I was 16 when we made the first song. We've been touring for half a decade together and we've had quite a…

— Andy Biersack

A girl that's a musician is just such a turn-on. Creative people who are songwriters.

— Calum Hood

I realized that I don't like touring. I'll never complain about it because no one wants to hear about a relatively successful…

— Moby

The majority of juice-heads and winos and junkies arent musicians.

— Thelonious Monk

You get a lot of who you are as a musician across through the music you write. If you're writing your own…

— Harry Styles

To date, [Wynton] Marsalis has received a total of nine Grammy Awards; a Pulitzer Prize (the first ever awarded to a jazz…

— Randy Sandke

It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little…

— Zola Jesus

We as the band are passionate and energetic musicians. We have minimised the amount of self-criticism. Fear of death, total impatience and…

— Jussi Lehtisalo

If a song is cooking in the studio, that's great, but if I can imagine doing it on stage, that's the next…

— Chrysta Bell

Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and…

— Anonymous

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

— Gary Oldman

There's the obvious shift in the tech industry. I'm not really politicized about the whole thing, but it's definitely clear that rent…

— Mikal Cronin

To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

Maybe the idea of being a rockstar or being the one who's recording or playing, sort of doesn't really matter as much…

— Adrian Grenier

I joined the Madras Christian College but dropped out after three months. Telugu music director Ramesh Naidu asked me to assist him,…

— A. R. Rahman

I always sort of saw myself as different from a musician.

— Joel Grey

I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the…

— Elton John