Musician Quotes · Page 51

I just have never seen anyone build anything significant in any field without having a deep and detailed sense of what they…

— Pat Metheny

If you're a musician, you're a musician; you don't ever get that out of your bones.

— Alex Clare

We are musicians, entertainers. We can do it. We have the right tools. No worries.

— Pete Townshend

My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.

— Brandi Carlile

While my mother wanted me to be a musician, I wanted to become an electronic engineer.

— A. R. Rahman

I used to pretend to be an expert on various kinds of music, even if they didn't really interest me.

— Fumio Sasaki

I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was…

— Robert Moog

One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.

— Jon Anderson

I want to do musician things and start making this my life. I want to learn - there's so much I have…

— James Wolpert

In actuality it's drum samples in the computer. I don't know, I've just never really dug into that whole technology thing, I…

— The Rocket Summer

I'm not trying to stay away from being a celebrity, I'm not saying, 'I'm sooo not famous,' I'm trying to continue being…

— Amy Winehouse

Since my father is a musician as well, he taught me growing up that if you can play jazz, you can learn…

— Meghan Trainor

I'm in awe of people like Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard; they're great musicians and people. But I'm most starstruck by…

— Kid Rock

I think that artists and musicians can do as much harm as good for causes if they tie their names to lots…

— Damian Kulash

I have seen so many bands and musicians fade away, especially the ones in my early days that treated me and my…

— Bernie Marsden

Scientists contribute in a variety of ways and I don't think I can singular one even including [Albert] Einstein, that I can…

— Ahmed H. Zewail

On tour things go wrong all the time, I mean that's live music, that's what it's all about. I think one of…

— Joey Badass

Musicians in my day had nicknames. My name was "Satchel Mouth," like a doctor's satchel. When I went to England this fellow…

— Louis Armstrong

I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill…

— Anonymous

The story of The Doors is one of the most compelling in the history of American rock music; three hugely talented musicians…

— Tom DiCillo

No more painters, no more scribblers, no more musicians, no more sculptors, no more religions, no more royalists, no more radicals, no…

— Louis Aragon

Wait." "Stop?" I bit my lip and nodded. "Stop everything, or just go no further?" "Just...just no further." "Done." He gathered me…

— Tammara Webber

A lot of people are really quick to say, "That song sounds like this." Or you - "He's tryin' to sound like…

— Bruno Mars

Books are frozen voices, in the same way that musical scores are frozen music. The score is a way of transmitting the…

— Margaret Atwood

Solo, you don't have compromise. It gets back to what's great when you're a musician.

— Curt Smith

A good film demands its own score, and if you are a musician, your conscience will never allow you to do something…

— A. R. Rahman

I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn't trust your health to an electrician.

— Paul Bley

I think there are just a million interviews in anthologies with famous musicians that are about the music, and they're really boring…

— Neil Strauss

In my perfect world, I get to be a professional musician and still go to Trader Joe's.

— Finneas

Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their…

— Seymour Stein

Musicians playing together, it's a conversation, and ideally I want our conversation to be really intriguing and interesting and beautiful.

— Chris Robinson

I feel very honored to be playing with Bill Pierce. He's such a great musician.

— Kevin Eubanks

Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Musicians are so well covered in the press, it would be great to see more outspoken practitioners of green life.

— Jason Mraz

I think people want to put you in a box and close it away so that it makes them feel better. A…

— Daniel Powter

You are in a state of mixing, and you just live with it. There is not one musician who is completely happy…

— Gary Cherone

When you lose what you love remember to stay strong. Look out the window and remember life goes on.

— Drew Chadwick

It is curious how people go on believing that the musician knows less about what he is doing than those that judge…

— Darius Milhaud

On the surface, being a musician can look pretty glamorous. But so much work goes into it.

— Sid Sriram

I'm a musician and, just as the critics are hard on me, I'm hard on the critics.

— Oscar Peterson