Musician Quotes · Page 41

I really wanted to be a musician, but it turned out I had no sense of time.

— Tom Perrotta

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

— David Bowie

Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.

— Georg Solti

I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music.

— Zach Braff

What costs the world to you as a working kid fresh out of college costs nothing to you as a successful musician.

— G-Eazy

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.

— Billy Joel

My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

— Paul McCartney

I hope to star in a biopic of some musician, so I could do their impression and get into their minds and…

— Melissa Villasenor

You can't get a guitar player like Dweezil without his commitment to the work that it takes A) to be the musician…

— Gail Zappa

I want to be one of those people, be they writers, poets, musicians, who leaves clues for the next generation. The really…

— Julian Casablancas

There're lots of musicians in my family, too. My mother sings incredibly well. I've got to make a record with my mother's…

— Grace Jones

What a good session musician does is listen to the song, to the artist, and to the other players. That way you…

— Benmont Tench

I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be…

— Lester Bowie

Playing the Opry, when I get the opportunity - it's one of the coolest honors for any musician in any genre, but…

— Charlie Worsham

I wouldn't recommend being a musician to anyone. It's not glamorous. It's a lot of being dirty, not eating, playing for five…

— Dan Reynolds

I know people who believe in ghosts but don’t believe in themselves. It’s kind of sad. Okay you don’t think you’ll ever…

— Mitch Hedberg

All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time.…

— Janis Joplin

Go find very early versions of things: the first TV pilot of a later-successful TV show; early audition tapes by famous actors;…

— Derek Sivers

Essentially, the popular musician in America must learn that his basic job is to entertain people, to make them forget their sorrows…

— Artie Shaw

“Remember this, son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can’t sing. Words have to find a man’s…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I think the most important thing about playing is to walk out with confidence, look the people right in the eye and…

— Les Paul

If a musician wants to blossom into a full-fledged person, it's not enough if he knows only classical music; nor it is…

— A. R. Rahman

Why do we idolise Christian singers and speakers? We go from glorifying musicians in the world to glorifying Christian musicians. It's all…

— Keith Green

It's always difficult to define what jazz is or what jazz isn't. To me, the only definition that I can think of…

— David Sanborn

Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.

— Lana Del Rey

I have a hard time even calling myself a musician, but I still have to be involved in music in some capacity…

— James Paxton

Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners.

— Herbie Hancock

I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff.

— Robyn Hitchcock

I don't think you can be a good musician if you just listen to rap, or just the [type of music] you…

— Freddie Gibbs

My name's Darren. I'm a musician, part time idiot. That's a full time job actually.

— Darren Criss

In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.

— Lee Konitz

When I was seven years old, I was leading a quartet and trio, and that really laid the groundwork for me as…

— Anne Akiko Meyers

Now as a musician, if you have it within you, you can create your own reality. Believe me, it's a novelty.

— Chris Robinson

As a musician, you are all the music that you absorb into your mind; that just subconsciously connects.

— Kali Uchis

I try not to become friends with musicians, but life happens and dinner happens and going out happens - it becomes interwoven…

— Ariel Rechtshaid

I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.

— Robyn Hitchcock

I think The Sunset Tree is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.

— John Darnielle

Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money.

— Glenn Miller

If you look at the way people behave at shows, icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship.

— Grimes

Music sets up ladders, it makes us invisible, it sets us apart, it lets us escape; but from the visible there is…

— Hilda Doolittle