About Quote by Courtney Barnett

Musicians know all about unemployment. You're unemployed a lot, and I think there's a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are…

— Billy Joel

When you're not successful as a musician, you are oftentimes unemployed.

— Tobias Forge

If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to…

— Moby

It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.

— Billy Joel

I never looked at being a musician any different than waking up one day and wanting to be an accountant or a lawyer.

— James Vincent McMorrow

As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't…

— Anonymous

People unfortunately think that if you progress as a musician you are wimpy. I don't get that.

— Chuck Schuldiner

As a musician, my job is incredibly easy, and it's a good one, but I've got to work at it occasionally.

— A.C. Newman

I have a hard time even calling myself a musician, but I still have to be involved in music in some capacity in my…

— James Paxton

I have reached a point in my life where I would love to be known as a struggling musician rather than a successful TV…

— Aditya Narayan

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

— Sid Sriram

I worked extremely hard at my craft and at being a good songwriter, being a good guitar player, being a good organist, because I…

— Grace Potter