Musician Quotes · Page 18

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

— Karrine Steffans

“Sometimes life gets weird. Hang in there, it gets better.”

— Tanner Patrick

All of music is connected, but a lot of people don't see it that way

— Larry Coryell

All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds.

— Marc Bolan

You're a musician: You play. That's what you do.

— Lou Reed

Anytime a musician says they're going to retire they're lying.

— The-Dream

I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

As long as I'm still growing as a musician, it keeps me inspired.

— Bryce Dessner

I think that virtuosity is the first sign of morality in a musician. It means you're serious enough to practice.

— Wynton Marsalis

I'm all in favor of getting grants for musicians. Or any other good brand of Scotch.

— Pepper Adams

Dance fascinates me, and it is perhaps the most enriching audio-visual realm for a musician. Film-making also fascinates me.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

My wife, Gayle, is a wonderful musician and singer. We share music, so it's a deep bond.

— Chick Corea

And at dawn, the drums still beat on the sleepless plain like an unstoppable heart.

— Jacques Roumain

I'm a bred musician - this is generational. For me to just limit myself to rapping is a discredit to my bloodline.

— Scarface

Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.

— Jeff Cooper

The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those…

— Danger Mouse

One day you pick up the guitar and you feel like a great master, and the next day you feel like a…

— Tommy Emmanuel

I visit studios. Just to get the feel, the smell, and see what other people are doing. Not only listening to the…

— Jimmy Cliff

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire…

— John Philip Sousa

I was never successful in a noteworthy way, no one wrote about me, and I didn't have recognition. I've met a lot…

— Lana Del Rey

The songs, if I write alone in a room, end up being a little more quiet, a little more subdued. If I…

— Marketa Irglova

America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social…

— Henry Miller

We have to keep in practice like musicians. Besides, there are still potentialities to be realized in color film. To us, it's…

— Edwin Land

I grew up in a classical music household. My dad is a phenomenal musician who can play any and all instruments, can…

— Bill Walton

I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

She [Joni Mitchell] wanted to have that (jazz) element in her music. Of course, when she heard Jaco's [Jaco Pastorius'] music and…

— Don Alias

I have a nice little idea from some people I met there who are now in their seventies, and I want to…

— John Gimlette

I'm a better musician now, and I rarely practice because age has taught me the value of economy. And I think I'm…

— James McBride

Sometimes I wonder if I shouldn't leaving being musician because I use to like it when noone came to see me playing,…

— Allan Holdsworth

I work with musicians whose opinions I respect and if they don't like something they don't hold back. They'll say, 'That really…

— Billy Joel

Sometimes listening to music can motivate you. It can. But if you're a musician, that isn't always the way to get new…

— Tori Amos

I do not believe, as do so many musicians, that genius should be left to fight its way to the light. Genius…

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Um, musicians are funnier you know, than actors on the whole.

— Tim Curry

Debussy--A pretty girl with one blue eye and one brown one.

— H. L. Mencken

I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.

— Kailash Kher

I just want to grow as a musician. that's why I do different languages.

— Neeti Mohan

Actors always want to be musicians, and musicians want to be actors

— Marilyn Manson

I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff.

— Neal Schon

Combing my hair doesn't make me a better musician.

— Ritchie Blackmore

Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.

— James Cook