Musician Quotes · Page 35

The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.

— Idina Menzel

I knew I wanted to do something that wasn't just domestic and endless but I had no idea what and no inkling…

— Vashti Bunyan

Just look at the Old Testament. They didn't go out with the army first. They sent the musicians out.

— Michael W. Smith

I was trying to actively get away from music, I guess. But I recorded a whole bunch of instrumental piano songs.

— Jens Lekman

A few years ago my goal was to try and get the goddamned album made, which put me in a real bad…

— Kylie Minogue

When I listen to the engine of my car, I might say it sounds fine, but it would not occur to me…

— Jose Bergamin

A devastating culmination of the elegant and the funky, a really sensational musician with enormous depth.

— Nick Lowe

As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

— Van Morrison

Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don't know what to tell a person that can't -…

— Miles Davis

My brother, Mario, is in show business and so are all my cousins on my dad's side. We come from a family…

— Irene Cara

I find myself, the more I grow up the more I hang around creatives, musicians. I find them more inspiring to be…

— Tom Odell

Oh yes, children often commit murders. And quite clever ones, too. Some murderers, particularly the distinguished ones who are going to make…

— John Lee Mahin

Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only…

— Harry Allen Overstreet

Music, as long as it exists, will always take its departure from the major triad and return to it. The musician cannot…

— Paul Hindemith

I think a lot about writing and I try to read a lot. Being a musician, I don't take the words lightly;…

— Steve Gunn

My models for graceful aging are guys like John Lee Hooker and Mississippi John Hurt, who never stopped working till they dropped,…

— Bruce Cockburn

A lot of musicians have said things to me like, "Music saved my life". And "I'm standing on the shoulders of dozens…

— Jon Gordon

Wyclef is a musician that tried to unite as many musicians at once as possible. I am trying to be successful at…

— Wyclef Jean

In Hamburg the waiters always had Preludin - and various other pills, but I remember Preludin because it was such a big…

— John Lennon

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the…

— Harry Connick, Jr

It's was all the internet. I started writing songs in high school, right about the time of the onset of Napster. I…

— Graham Colton

My dream right now is - and I don't know how to do it, and I don't know if it will work…

— Eef Barzelay

I think all musicians and producers, they know the real goal is to come up with a record that is entertaining and…

— Black Francis

I'd really like people to see me as a real actress, which I am, but they don't. It's hard to get them…

— Marianne Faithfull

I have a buddy of mine who's a musician, and I play guitar and sing quite a bit with him.

— Jensen Ackles

I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.

— Nick Cannon

I've dated the sweet mama's boy, the musician rocker, the struggling artist - basically a lot of people without jobs.

— Alyssa Milano

The Clan Mothers ran everything and had the last word. I think that's the answer.

— Floyd Red Crow Westerman

As a musician, I realize I am not only responsible for the music that I put out, but also for my actions…

— Jubin Nautiyal

The 'Daryl's House' thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way…

— Daryl Hall

Musicians have to do what they do and express it musically. All the blah blah blah will get lost in the dialogue.

— Carlos Alomar

'Cause I felt I didn't have anything else to prove as a musician... and boy was I wrong about that one.

— Rick Allen

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

— Richard Wagner

It's been a real journey for me, in my career, of wanting to be seen as a musician.

— Raye

I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.

— P. J. Soles

I would not want to do anything that would take away from my career in music. I will always be a musician…

— Anoushka Shankar

There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musicians.

— Dweezil Zappa

As a musician, to be part of anything that promotes peace is very rewarding.

— Adnan Sami

Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true.

— James Taylor

If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful.

— Johnny Ramone