Musician Quotes · Page 10

As a musician, it's only natural that my music mirrors my life.

— Anoushka Shankar

An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician.

— Brian Cox

I'm not a very technical musician at all.

— Washed Out

“She is my musician, and me, I’m her favorite song.”

— Rudy Francisco

I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.

— Karrine Steffans

The sexiest woman musician is Alicia Keys.

— Pharrell Williams

A musician's true talent is only tested through background music.

— Anirudh Ravichander

Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail,

— Elliott Smith

You know what you can gain when you sit down with the Moroccans. As a person and as a musician. That's how…

— Jimmy Page

'Simeon's Gift' is really - it's about a musician who - in the Middle Ages, who goes out to find his muse.

— Julie Andrews

I'm a producer for fun. I'm not a professional schooled musician or anything.

— Afrojack

I have been a provoker and I'll probably always be one in the public arena for the rest of my life.

— Mark Lanegan

Edible names are what drives me as a musician. My next band will be called the Hot Dogs.

— Chad Smith

“When all else fails, there is music. When that fails you, there is beer.”

— James Hauenstein

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.

— Branford Marsalis

Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's…

— Sean Lennon

I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make…

— Robert Moog

A lot of the people that I photograph are master musicians themselves, whether they're singers or great jazz players and it's kind…

— Carol Friedman

For better or for worse, I think my approach to jazz is very traditional, in one sense, but is [also] very out…

— Jose James

I want longevity; I love music, being a musician is the greatest gift in the world to me, and if I were…

— Christina Grimmie

It's really important to create something, like with my creations as a musician. Just let it flow. Focus on how to deliver…

— Miyavi

I have a real love of sound and the shape of the sound. I'm a musician, and I'm fascinated with the effects…

— Guy Pearce

Music is the sound of the universal laws promulgated. It is the only assured tone. There are in it such strains as…

— Henry David Thoreau

My gift's primarily literary. That being said, I ended up a musician. By the time I made the bluegrass record...I'm more impressed…

— Steve Earle

I'm especially interested in what I call practitioner criticism, which is when people who practice an art form start writing about it…

— Terry Teachout

It doesn't matter if it's jazz or not. It's about how we listen, how we interact, how we guide our attention when…

— Vijay Iyer

With mimicry, with praises, with echoes, or with answers, the poets have all but outsung the bell. The inarticulate bell has found…

— Alice Meynell

I'd been in a couple situations where I'd seen bands realize that they didn't have to get a good take in order…

— J. Robbins

I've always considered myself a failure: I feel I've never done anything wholly right. [...] Everybody will tell you, "Oh no, how…

— Ronnie Drew

Reading and writing music is a wonderful way of getting ideas in your head down to someone else who reads and writes,…

— Ronnie Montrose

There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they've ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the…

— Ian Mcewan

I'm not as religious as some people about "the album." To be honest, that was a product of a format. You had…

— Bjork

I wanted to be what I am. All my life. A musician and an actor.

— Frank Vincent

As a musician, I have always refrained from criticizing another artist.

— Jill Sobule

I’m not all about money, but, like most musicians, I am about survival.

— David Byrne

Practice like good musician; draw every day.

— Sergei Bongart

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 went to public school, and it shaped me as a musician.

— Ruben Studdard

An element I love about the blues is jamming with other musicians.

— Gary Hoey