Musician Quotes · Page 42

So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.

— Santigold

In my headphones, I led a life of romance and incident and intrigue, none of which had anything to do with the…

— Rob Sheffield

If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it.…

— Paul Stanley

I'm having to cope with the fact that some people might consider me a musician.

— Grant Evans

There's too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.

— Jimmy Page

Touring is my favorite part of being a musician. All the places I've traveled and lived affect me in many different ways.…

— Elle King

Musicians more than most people are in the moment. That's the dual nature of that job.

— Gail Zappa

I started out with the guitar and was a studio musician back in the 50s, and then got shot in my finger.

— Dr. John

If you're a musician, you can practice your guitar every day and write songs, but when you're an actor, you can't just…

— Winona Ryder

Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so…

— Alvin Lee

Only by pairing knowledge with inspiration will art evolve. Without these conditions any musician will remain a flawed artist, if one may…

— Hector Berlioz

The feeling you get from playing to a good audience is hard to describe without sounding as though you are talking silly.…

— Tony Iommi

I've been a musician since I was nine. I think a ghost or goblin visited me in the night. Maybe aliens abducted…

— Alan Cohen

'Some Kind Of Monster' is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you're watching a band be honest to each…

— Dave Grohl

If there is any selfish angle, then it would probably be me just knocking myself in the head, thinking "Is there anybody…

— Daniel Lopatin

I'm a person of the arts. I love the arts very, very, very much. And ah, I'm a musician, I'm a director,…

— Michael Jackson

Interestingly, I matured as a musician and as an artist before I matured as a man. What I mean by that is,…

— Miguel

I had the opportunity, as a child, to grow up in a community center where I was exposed to theater, music, art,…

— Erykah Badu

I was off the scene for a while during the ska period and when I returned and joined the Treasure Isle studio,…

— Alton Ellis

I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also…

— Damon Albarn

“I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and winter came and…

— Charlotte Eriksson

If you can create a reality that is entirely fictitious, it doesn't owe anything to this stuff out here, but you interact…

— Jerry Garcia

If you deny yourself access to the child within because you're too serious, you also block your connection to the divine Light…

— Stuart Wilde

When I started making films I just decided "I'm the filmmaking equivalent of a garage band and I'll just make my garage…

— Guy Maddin

I never thought being a musician would be something I could make a career out of.

— Vidya Vox

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Music itself is not going to let you down.

— Virgil Thomson

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

— Billy Joel

I just love to play and I get a chance to play with other musicians and I jump on it.

— Chad Smith

Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.

— Paul Westerberg

When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by…

— Jonathan Tropper

I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.

— Peabo Bryson

I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start…

— Damon Albarn

There is nothing normal about a musician's lifestyle; I don't have a nine-to-five job at the post office.

— Robin Thicke

A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.

— Keith Richards

Critics or musicians who attack me are jealous of my success and the fact that I make people feel so happy.

— Andre Rieu

I'm not trying to save the world. As a musician and artist, it just ain't me.

— Curtis Jackson

In a lot of minds, God is big enough to raise dead people, but He's not big enough to deal with our…

— Jason Upton

I had no direction. I thought, 'I need to make a difference in my life,' and music was my answer.

— Gerard Way

...The key to playing with any group is you listen all the time and you listen more than you play.

— John Scofield

I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me

— Rosanna Arquette