Musician Quotes · Page 32

I wasn't a jazz player, but a classical musician, and I improvised arrangements of popular songs using classical motifs.

— Nina Simone

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge.

— Gioachino Rossini

Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II.

— Kurt Masur

It never occurred to me that I'd be a musician. I was just drunk on music, jamming with friends, chilling out with…

— Mohit Chauhan

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?

— George Carlin

The goal as a musician, I think, is to be able to make music as a living for the rest of your…

— Taylor Momsen

“We love music deeply, but why? Put simply: music makes lives, shapes lives, expresses all shades and stages of life - and…

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

When you're a musician and you go out onstage, and you're someone who loves attention, you are going to become a role…

— Kathleen Hanna

I asked the head musician if I could go onstage during the next break and he said sure. I got two laughs…

— Emo Philips

I don't wanna talk about Teo [Macero]. He's a helluva musician, a brilliant musician, but he's just not for me, that's all.…

— Miles Davis

Most musicians, regardless of what culture they come from, can get together and agree on some stuff about music. As there is…

— Jerry Garcia

Man, I would demand that artist come to the table with better variety. I would demand that musicians know music history, not…

— Pharoahe Monch

I have always made commercial music. The people who vote for the Grammy nominees are mostly in their 40s and have other…

— Al Walser

Maybe not as an idol, but I have influenced some people, including my son Joshua. So that feels good. Wherever I play…

— Dewey Redman

Whatever I do, I attempt to do it fully. I try, and don't always succeed, to be thorough. There are musicians who…

— Bill Dixon

It's so crazy because kids that wrote to me when they were 14 years old are still in my life. A lot…

— Kathleen Hanna

It’s hard to pin down what makes Weiss’ music so distinctive. Perhaps it’s that even in the ballads, the tone is upbeat,…

— Carlo Wolff

This is going to sound really corny, but it's the way I feel: Musicians have been around for a really long time.…

— Will Sheff

I think if you think of our lives as musicians, it's craftsmanship. We're not artists, we're more artisans. You know, I don't…

— David Prowse

Luther Vandross and I met in Roberta Flack's band. He was singing background, I was playing bass, and Roberta was beautiful. She's…

— Marcus Miller

Musically, though, you're a character and you're singing a song. If you're not your own character, you're the character in the song,…

— Jack White

You can choose not to be a performing musician. You can choose to just be a recording artist. But then you run…

— Mirah

genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man,…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

My goal is to live the truly religious life, and express it in my music. If you live it, when you play…

— John Coltrane

I'm a singer. I'm a musician. I'm a writer. Maybe - I don't know - I couldn't give a child what it…

— Lisa Stansfield

I was an independent musician for ten years before I became a musician for movies.

— Santhosh Narayanan

It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.

— Billy Joel

MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.

— Karlie Kloss

I just make videos and stuff. There's not much more to it than that. I'm a musician trying to express myself.

— Yung Lean

'SNL' is probably one of the premiere outlets that a musician can perform on that isn't obviously a music outlet.

— Miguel

In a lot of groups, you can change a musician, and it doesn't mean anything.

— Robbie Robertson

If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by…

— Brad Paisley

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

— Billy Sherwood

I'm on my feet and I'm doing what I love to do, and I'm in a profession, as a musician, where we…

— Ringo Starr

Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.

— John Szarkowski

Ideally the point of music is community, not the player. Musicians are simply channels to link the audience to the music and…

— Trey Anastasio

Aside from comic book heroes, the only real life heroes I had were musicians.

— Andy Biersack

Me and my family, we've all grown so much. I've grown as a musician and entertainer.

— Keyshia Cole

When I was a little boy, I told my dad, 'When I grow up, I want to be a musician.' My dad…

— Chet Atkins

My family is full of musicians, and a couple of times a year we get together and jam at my cousin's studio.…

— Gabriel Macht