Musician Quotes · Page 57

I never sought out a record deal. It caught me with my pants down. I was just a musician doing my thing,…

— Jamie Cullum

For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

— Charles Hazlewood

I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the…

— Elton John

I'm a weird, bald musician who makes records in his bedroom and lives in the Lower East Side.

— Moby

Music can shoot through the musician like lightening through the sky if that music is unobstructed by thoughts.

— Kenny Werner

As a producer, I like to bring in unexpected voices, unexpected musicians, like Watt and Joey Spampinato of NRBQ.

— M. Ward

Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.

— Dodie Smith

I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other…

— Gary Burton

I love when people are coming up and they're working hard and you can see that they're really focused on the process…

— Amos Lee

I've always had a problem within myself of feeling that people didn't really see me as a musician and I'm out to…

— Phil Spector

I really wanted a guitar. As A little boy I used to tell people I was going to be a musician. They…

— Steve Young

There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it within our power to…

— Pete Seeger

I never look at myself as a closet actor wanting to make music or a closet musician wanting to act — I’m…

— Jared Leto

Most musicians count at the beginning, and never count and talk to their musicians after that. They only talk to them at…

— Roy Ayers

In my own life, I had gone from Maryland State Honors Chorus and writing and singing my own songs to a musical…

— Shervin Pishevar

Liverpool was an industrial town, a poor town. The people fought hard for what they wanted to achieve and there was a…

— Pete Best

My own experience with that brief moment where I had videos on MTV was that nothing was ever good enough. When you…

— Mike Doughty

Write all the time. I believe in writing every day, at least a thousand words a day. We have a strange idea…

— Theodora Goss

I hold my time with the Black Crowes with the utmost respect and sincerest appreciation. It is a huge swath of my…

— Rich Robinson

I've done a bunch of collaborations where it goes well and you finish it, but then you're kind of like, "I just…

— Nick Murphy

Man, you'd be surprised how much I'm learning - not only about myself, but about the musicians who came before me. You…

— Freddie Hubbard

I’m not saying that maybe there isn’t a kid out there whose behavior hasn’t been influenced by me in some way. I’m…

— Pete Doherty

I can't get very excited about a musician who can do Art Tatum because I've got the Art Tatum records. I want…

— Gary Giddins

Since I started as a comic person then became a musician to me it was interesting because I have this really great,…

— Gerard Way

Chopin--Two embalmers at work upon a minor poetthe scent of tuberosesAutumn rain.

— H. L. Mencken

I'm supposed to be a musical genius, but I can't work the car seat that well.

— Kanye West

“I like the smell of my Grandma's soap - I used to sit in the bath and eat it.”

— Carl Barât

I regard myself as a true American musician, and I play every style that is my heritage.

— Michelle Shocked

Composers are in some ways the last frontier of musician that gets a paycheck for their musical services.

— Cliff Martinez

I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.

— Barry Manilow

Every record, you've got more experiences to draw on as a writer and a musician.

— Jerry Cantrell

Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world.

— Pattie Boyd

[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.

— Van Morrison

There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an…

— John Philip Sousa

I'm not a human interest story, man. I'm just a musician trying to make some small records and be happy, be peaceful.

— Mark Lanegan

Surround yourself with people who allow you the time to really discover what kind of a musician you truly are.

— Jack Savoretti

When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I…

— Don McLean

Justin represents HOPE, that is his brand. Small town musician makes good. Fans want him to succeed. Many see themselves in him.

— Scooter Braun

Success is nice, but it shouldn't be the only reason why you're a musician.

— Chester Bennington

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.

— Freddie Mercury