I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.' — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
I don't just strictly sample. I build. I'm a musician: I play piano and drums, I read notes, I write music. — AraabMuzik Copy Share Image
I think I'm more entertainer than musician. I like to get with the crowd, make this night special for them. — George Benson Copy Share Image
I actually always wanted to end up somewhere in music, I just didn't know what. — Lil Xan Copy Share Image
The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
... I practice more than ever ... mostly scales and arpeggios ... and anything I can't do ... — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman. — Amy Grant Copy Share Image
I personally feel that acting is not totally different from singing and being a musician. — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something… — Lesley Gore Copy Share Image
Musicians used to be way more instrumental just in providing a soundtrack to what's going on in the world. And it's also… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
I knew a lot of my musicians used to take coke. I never saw them. They would hide it from me, so… — Giorgio Moroder Copy Share Image
The fact that I wasn't expected to read music at all and was absorbing everything by ear... it had a huge affect… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
There are five things to write songs about: I'm leaving you. You're leaving me. I want you. You don't want me. I… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
There isn't a difference between how I feel in the world and how I feel as a musician, or someone who writes.… — Wesley Eisold Copy Share Image
Ultimately, what we do as musicians, I think of us as a type of emotional engineer. We essential take these sound waves,… — Stefon Harris Copy Share Image
Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life. But I had an insight that maybe we would… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share Image
Our nights didn't begin until after noon. Because in the old days, you'd start Birdland at 8:30 or 9 pm and play… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be someone in the entertainment industry. In my eighth grade slideshow, when everyone was like "show us what… — Lilly Singh Copy Share Image
I think it's quite tricky for actors to release albums. It's difficult, because I'm an actor, you know, I'm not a musician.… — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
You're always in a tunnel that you can't see the end of. But there's something that took place on this movie that… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
Unnur Birna is a Reykjavik-based violinist and singer. She has performed as a session musician with countless Icelandic and international artists while… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
Most people define themselves by what they do - 'I'm a musician.' Then one day it occurred to me that I'm only… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
Everybody struggles with get tiring as a musician having to play the same songs over and over again on one level or… — Crosby Loggins Copy Share Image
To be a musician is a great privilege but it is also a very great responsibility. One must think that to be… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
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