Actually Quote by Amanda Palmer

Music is a social act.

— Bill Callahan

Most musicians are normal people who want to hang out and are really down to earth.

— Sharon Van Etten

We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

— Eddie Van Halen

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

— Gail Zappa

I don't know whether you [musician] can be all things to everybody, which is why there are different kinds of music.

— Gene Simmons

Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk…

— Michael Azerrad

There's more to being a musician than just making music.

— Burning Spear

Music is part of being human.

— Anonymous

I never really thought of music as a particularly social thing. I experienced music through recordings as opposed to concerts. It just makes you…

— David Longstreth

In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or…

— Barbra Streisand

"Music is something that professionals do and not something that I do." That's not natural. Music belongs to everybody.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I think the most important thing about what musicians do is the music. You can be as big an arsehole as you want but…

— Peter Hook