Musician Quotes · Page 50

I used to have a lot of envy for those musicians who have been universally loved.

— Moby

Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's…

— Sean Lennon

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.

— Branford Marsalis

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into…

— Dar Williams

You know what you can gain when you sit down with the Moroccans. As a person and as a musician. That's how…

— Jimmy Page

I tried to be a musician for seven years and I'd given it my all, but no one was really interested or…

— Michelle Zauner

There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25.

— Sonny Rollins

I have been a provoker and I'll probably always be one in the public arena for the rest of my life.

— Mark Lanegan

I know that I'm capable of moving around on the guitar. I can express myself the way I want to and feel…

— Gary Clark, Jr

THE GODS was my first professional band and I learned a lot during that time. It was very cool playing with so…

— Ken Hensley

I think the best thing an artist can do is not hang out with other artists. I really dislike hanging out with…

— Justin Townes Earle

More people than ever are spending money to support more artists and musicians and give them more leisure time to build cereal…

— Brian Chippendale

I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny…

— Tori Amos

If a musician wants to be an actor, everyone thinks that's pretty cool. But if an actor wants to play a song,…

— John Hawkes

I always try to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young musician. One of the reasons we're here…

— Dizzy Gillespie

If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it,…

— Douglas Coupland

When you write a song you're more or less saying, "This is everyone. I think this is everyone." It doesn't necessarily have…

— Anthony Green

For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad tiny tremors. The notes know no rest,…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I have no problem with religion, and I grew up with a strong curiosity about spiritual matters, but my searching took me…

— Eric Clapton

Comedy is the drug, when they laugh it's like I'm a jazz musician and they hear it, and they get it. It's…

— Alonzo Bodden

"What can I offer you that will make you happier about how you should feel about who Angelina Jolie is?" I think…

— Angelina Jolie

When you have a sense of calling, whether it's to be a musician, soloist, artist, in one of the technical fields, or…

— Charles R. Swindoll

I worry about that terribly because the public eye can bring all sorts of unwanted intrusions and problems. But he's treading his…

— Jude Law

It wasn't professional, but it was a few levels below the top level. I loved playing football, but my passion was always…

— Vance Joy

'Simeon's Gift' is really - it's about a musician who - in the Middle Ages, who goes out to find his muse.

— Julie Andrews

I'm a producer for fun. I'm not a professional schooled musician or anything.

— Afrojack

There's a lot of different forms of communication, but music is absolutely the purest one.

— Duane Allman

As I grew in confidence, I was able to come out and say that I'm a musician.

— Shura

I didn't really intend on having a music career. It just kind of happened.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville.

— Richie Sambora

It was like an exponential weed. And people treated me as if I was an established musician. I wasn't.

— Jack Tatum

I see myself more like a novelist or a polygamist than a musician in terms of my output.

— Mark Kozelek

When you have the opportunity to make music with great musicians, take it. That's it. That's the only reason I need, really.

— Joss Stone

I don't think you can learn to be a complete musician. That has to come from within, and it entails a lot…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

The Daryls House thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way…

— Daryl Hall

I'm not in it for my health. I'm a musician and I wanna live the way I do.

— Levon Helm

The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing.

— Buddy Guy

The harp is an insipid instrument--no good for dancing, feasting, or marching, only for sitting primly in a parlor or on a…

— Mason Cooley

Whenever I heard a musician do something that I could not explain, I went back to the theory in order to figure…

— George Russell

“Be yourself. Don't take anyone's shit and never let them get you alive.”

— Gerard Way