Musician Quotes · Page 43

I don't hate being compared with female musicians. I don't mind that at all. I have no problem with seeing connections between…

— Ani DiFranco

Communicating with musicians is really interesting because everyone has their quirks and their strengths and their weaknesses.

— Flying Lotus

I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.

— Cass McCombs

Me and success are two things you don't wanna find yo ass between. Back against the wall like plasma screens.

— Drake

Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.

— Benny Goodman

“You can be known as the most beautiful woman who ever crawled across cut glass to make a deal”

— Bob Dylan

At one point, I was thinking about going to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, but then I realized it's actually not what…

— Alycia Debnam-Carey

It is only the most elite of elite musicians whose unconventional approach becomes convention.

— Steve Vai

It might be David Adjaye talking about how the structure of jazz music informs his architecture, it might be the musician Terry…

— Doug Aitken

It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little…

— Zola Jesus

The black hole in democracy is integrity. The great unspoken is integrity. When integrity is not first and foremost, it's quite palpable…

— Wynton Marsalis

I feel like when you're an artist and you first come out - people don't want you to be as creative as…

— Kid Ink

I like to be in the zone. I like being in the studio with the artists, with the producers, with the musicians,…

— LeCrae

There came a point where I did give up on music, but I'm the kind of person that when I face obstacles,…

— Fantastic Negrito

It's a scary question for a musician or songwriter today - what does the future hold? It is a strange time in…

— Dean Wareham

I just like so many different kinds of music that I like experimenting. I don't want to keep making the same record…

— Alan Cooper

The musician of disordered sound, the poet of decomposed language, the painter and sculptor of the fragmented visual and tactile world: they…

— Heinz Kohut

Performers always come back from the Edinburgh festival with adventure stories. Watts told a few: meeting a young kilt maker who spent…

— Reggie Watts

The most important thing is that you make sure you follow the music, which is a musician's way of saying follow your…

— Robben Ford

They say that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a homosexual. Truth be told, we don't love him because of that, but he was…

— Vladimir Putin

My approach to music is very deep. I do not compromise with anybody or anything else in the world. I do not…

— Nikhil Banerjee

The sudden passing of Jack Bruce is terribly sad news. One of the greatest rock bassists to ever live and a true…

— Geddy Lee

Indie record stores are as important to a touring musician as an incredible thrift store. I can't overstate how good it feels…

— Nate Ruess

They [the teachers at European conservatories] taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was…

— Miroslav Vitous

I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician.

— Juliana Hatfield

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

— Nat Hentoff

Growing up with my dad being a musician, it seemed like a male centric world to me. I just didn't know many…

— Lola Kirke

The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.

— David Byrne

I'd written songs since I was 16, but I never thought that I would be a musician full time.

— Shura

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

— Travis Barker

I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I'll be right here in my spot wit a lil more cash than I already got trippin off you cause you had…

— Drake

I identify more as a musician than as a singer, because I play piano and percussion, and I engineer and produce everything…

— Janina Gavankar

Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.

— Richard Wagner

Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his…

— Action Bronson

The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians.

— Anonymous

Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.

— Brian Eno

I'm lucky to have had the opportunity to perform with bands that have influenced me as a musician over the years.

— Joey Jordison

You know, any sane magician would never reveal his method of deception. And I don't think that a sensible musician would either.

— Van Dyke Parks

I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.

— Jamie Foxx