Musician Quotes · Page 36

I know a lot of actors who started out as musicians and have very successful careers as actors, but most people don't…

— Rick Springfield

“Music is the Universal Language that allows all people to communicate with each other.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

I love writing songs and being a musician, but you can't really buy the feeling of connecting with people.

— Michael Kiwanuka

A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.

— Branford Marsalis

I'm a songwriter, an artist, and a musician. I do not have to try to be that; I just am.

— Linda Perry

Music that is created with the primary aim of impressing other musicians fails to connect with the vast majority of listeners.

— Carl Orr

Of course, you have to have a good reputation, especially as an artist, as a musician, so that other musicians would like…

— Airto Moreira

I got my style. I got my own way of playing. I'm a musician. I'm self-taught.

— Sixto Rodriguez

I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwriter. In my book that means…

— Justin Townes Earle

I started to study the flute in 1951. The flute has been utilized by African-American musicians as far back as the early…

— Yusef Lateef

I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to.…

— Ringo Starr

I used to go to Bourbon Street when I was a kid and there would be club after club after club of…

— Harry Connick, Jr

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree…

— Steven Wright

Most of the time when musicians get together, there's always that variance - always someone's a little ahead of the beat, someone's…

— Alan Sparhawk

Not only was he not mad, but he was a musician, and my favorite men had always been musicians or writers or…

— Marian Keyes

I never wanted to get a job of musician. That was kind of my thing. I came from somewhat of a musical…

— Nate Ruess

In order for a musician to grow, he's got to pay his dues. Some musicians ask me, 'well, what do you mean?…

— Woody Shaw

I never have been a musician; I'm not actually capable. Because I can't even pretend to acquire the gift, all of my…

— Jonathan Lethem

A lot of the musicians asked me if when I hit my high-Cs on the records I had a clarinet take the…

— Louis Armstrong

I could sing and play as well. I've got some brothers; one of them is the drummer in the band. They're good…

— Jonathan Rhys Meyers

I see that you believe in love such as the poets and romancers have represented... The poets represent love as the sculptors…

— Alfred de Musset

I think the key that differentiates the good actors from the mediocre ones that are still trying to come up, is that…

— Wesley Snipes

I've approached music with the understanding that knowledge is available regarding tones and their effect upon the body. I think the father…

— Paul Horn

I don't consider myself a musician who has achieved perfection and can't develop any further. But I compose my pieces with a…

— Thelonious Monk

“As long as there had to be a me in this world, I'm happy to have been chosen to fulfill the position.”

— Robin Friend

Music is my greatest love. If I could play an instrument I would be a musician.

— Ryan Phillippe

I'm a musician, and I'm not interested in being in the Houses of Parliament.

— MNEK

I'm a musician and I'm really blessed, because in my life if I can hold the sticks, I can play.

— Ringo Starr

There are a lot better musicians than me out there that just haven't had the luck to fall into everything like I…

— Glenn Tipton

Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.

— Brian Eno

When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the…

— Placido Domingo

Stereotyping and generating brands around musicians I think contributes to their eventual demise.

— Squarepusher

Thyagaraja was not a professional musician. He did not sing for situations. He was music himself.

— Ilaiyaraaja

Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.

— Tommy Chong

The glamour Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast Down in the flood of remembrance.

— D. H. Lawrence

I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young

— Pat Metheny

I kind of feel like I didn't have much choice. The songs... the playing... those were the only things that ever really…

— Charlie Worsham

I'm a musician, I always was a musician, and now I've got a song on the radio, so I'm definitely a musician.

— Tulisa

Composers and musicians have always starved and, as this is a sentimental country, we think the tradition should be continued.

— Thomas Beecham

I've been a musician for 52 years professionally. I do it because, for me, I love it.

— Frank Stallone