The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. — Erik Satie Copy Share Image
By the time I was about 15, I was out playing gigs and knew I was going to be a musician. — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into! — Frank Iero Copy Share Image
I honestly haven't thought much about what to play and where, perhaps i should...it seems like most musicians are better at that… — Moby Copy Share Image
Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band. — Rashida Jones Copy Share Image
I was never interested in singing in the church or school. I was more interested in becoming a musician. — Cassandra Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm a much better musician than astronomer. I think the world got the right choice. — Brian May Copy Share Image
I didn't finish high school, but I went to a special school for producers and musicians, a three year course for engineering,… — Martin Garrix Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson will always be my favorite pop musician; he was for years and years until his death, which was horrible to… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
The people who I grew up making music with, we've all grown up and become successful in different ways. My manager supported… — Skrillex Copy Share Image
I have a thing: I will always put money in for any street musician anywhere in the country, anywhere in the world.… — Andy Grammer Copy Share Image
People be famous for everything other than music and that's what they really trying to do. But they don't know once you… — Blueface Copy Share Image
You know somethin', man? Some day I'm gonna be walkin' up the street one way and you're gonna be comin' down the… — Chick Webb Copy Share Image
By the time I was 19, my parents weren't very authoritative over my life.I didn't have any doubt about that - at… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I've heard Eric Clapner, ... I think it was a wonderful thing that Eric Clapner the musician did...So I think that's the… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
I've heard of people stopping their cars, having car wrecks, all kinds of things. But most of the banjo players I know… — Earl Scruggs Copy Share Image
It is really sad for the new artists. Where's the next Elvis, where's the next Beatles, where's the Zeppelin? They're out there… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
Email is a mind-killer. Like, I really think getting a smartphone is the worst move I ever did in being a musician… — Dan Deacon Copy Share Image
To a lot of people, my job is really fancy, so they're like, "Oh, whoah, you're a musician, wow!" Some people go… — Shura Copy Share Image
Nobody else even approaches the trumpet like [Sweets Edison] does: Never too much and always plenty. He's the greatest trumpet player to… — Ella Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
This great Mughal Emperor [Akbar] was illiterate; he could neither read nor write. However, that had not stopped Akbar from cultivating the… — Indu Sundaresan Copy Share Image
I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; not… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be a sideman. My own style was coming out and I was into my own writing. I wrote… — Shuggie Otis Copy Share Image
You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of… — Billy Sherwood Copy Share Image
I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down… — Slash Copy Share Image
For some musicians it becomes self-reflexive to think, "I have to write some of my kind of songs now." — Alan Licht Copy Share Image
I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
“Marketing is so powerful that it can make even an extremely untalented musician a one-hundred-hits wonder.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music. — Toots Thielemans Copy Share Image
To play the trumpet well, a musician can not let more than a few days pass without practicing. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
When I am on stage, I am just an honest artiste who tries to let people know me, not only as a… — Jubin Nautiyal Copy Share Image
I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
I got where I am through a series of flukes - I'm basically a musician and a writer, not a pop star. — David Essex Copy Share Image
People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
I prefer live musicians whenever possible. And I tailor the ensemble to what is appropriate for the film and the score I'm… — Geoff Zanelli Copy Share Image
“I probably would have made music but listening to Elvis Costello took my life in a completely different direction.” — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe… — Gary Allan Copy Share Image
I don't really know how to describe how I got into music - it kind of just happened. — Lil Yachty Copy Share Image
I loved music - listening and playing - but of course I could not imagine I would be a professional musician. It… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
![“It is really sad for the new artists. Where's the next Elvis, where's the next Beatles, where's the Zeppelin? They're out there but they don't have a chance because once upon a time we [musicians of the 60s] had record companies, and they would support you and have point of purchase material and…” quote by Gene Simmons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bae/gene-simmons-2164_air_it-is-really-sad-for-the-new-artists-whe_443532.jpg)
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