Musician Quotes · Page 28

I love being a musician. I love the lifestyle. But I think it's probably as difficult and frustrating as anything.

— Trevor Dunn

“A composer who can lift the spirit of a million people with a song, is a definite force for good.”

— Abhijit Naskar

People unfortunately think that if you progress as a musician you are wimpy. I don't get that.

— Chuck Schuldiner

Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer.

— Bobby Vinton

When you talk like an asshole and look like an asshole, you're an asshole

— John Lydon

It doesn't matter if you are a musician, a business leader, a president or a student. We all have a responsibility to…

— Shakira

I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.

— Anonymous

You must remember I grew up around music. Three of my family were musicians.

— Lori Singer

One of the great things about being in a band is that you meet so many other musicians who will turn you…

— Alasdair MacLean

But between sets I'd sneak over to the black places to hear blues musicians. It got to the point where I was…

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up…

— Chad Smith

I think it's something to do with the structural quality of the songs. We weren't actually trying to make stuff that was…

— Paul McCartney

My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was…

— Branford Marsalis

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

Ultimately, what we do as musicians, I think of us as a type of emotional engineer. We essential take these sound waves,…

— Stefon Harris

Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life. But I had an insight that maybe we would…

— Gilberto Gil

One feature about Los Angeles that I particularly love is the chance for association with all kinds of creative artists, a thing…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

I grew up listening to a lot of that stuff, Motown and Stooges. But also early rock-and-roll like Chuck Berry, Little Richard,…

— Alex Winston

Usually, I think it's best to play the song for them once and have them mix it up on the spot, because…

— Larkin Grimm

Being a professional musician doesn't mean you spend 12 hours a day playing music. It means you spend up to 12 hours…

— Robert Fripp

Country music is different because we [musicians] are all actually happy for each other. We're all friends. It's a little family. So…

— Miranda Lambert

I came to writing kind of late. I was an engineer, and the one thing I've learned is that you have to…

— George Saunders

Musicians and artists are not... it's not like politicians or something where you can't really affect them. There's not like this separate…

— Bradford Cox

We'll win, of course," he said. "You don't want that," said the demon. "Why not, pray?“ “Listen," said Crowley desperately, "how many…

— Neil Gaiman

I am a musician who stopped working with music. Now I work with visual music, or audio-visual music.

— Kurt Ralske

Every musician tries to blend in some reggae. It's the only music that brings all people together, different races, different religions.

— Burning Spear

I download music just like anybody else, but it's a weird relationship when you're a musician.

— Tim Hecker

I'm a big believer that an actor should be able to pick up any piece of material and act it, the way…

— Martin Landau

A lot of my friends are musicians or artists, and their talent always pushes me to think creatively.

— Erin Willett

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the…

— Alan Greenspan

I just got into music very heavily as a kid and I pretty much knew I wanted to be a musician.

— Michael Penn

These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.

— Marilyn Manson

If being a gangster were a prerequisite to being a musician, there'd be a lot less cello music, for example.

— Greg Giraldo

I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.

— Ray LaMontagne

He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard.

— Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

I studied percussion as a music student, and I didn't have the best of timing, so I could never make it as…

— Lorne Balfe

“We are here as a reminder that the world is not better off without you.”

— Frank Iero

I don't consider myself to be a great musician, but my first album was a record hit in Pakistan.

— Atif Aslam

The longer you've been acting, normally, the better you are at it. As a musician, it doesn't work like that.

— Larry Mullen, Jr