A Quote by M.I.A.

I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.

M.I.A.

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Artist Consider Musician Myself

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M.I.A.
British - Musician
Born: July 18, 1975

I'm not a jazz artist. Don't get me wrong now, it's all music to me. I just played music and if it's likeable, someone liked the sound, then fine, but I'm not interested in being a jazz musician. I don't consider myself a jazz musician. I don't have anything to do with that word.

Pharoah Sanders

I don't consider myself a musician who has achieved perfection and can't develop any further. But I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself. Take a musician like John Coltrane. He is a perfect musician, who can give expression to all the possibilities of his instrument. But he seems to have difficulty expressing original ideas on it. That is why he keeps looking for ideas in exotic places. At least I don't have that problem, because, like I say, I find my inspiration in myself.

Thelonious Monk

I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fighting tools.

Larry Kramer

The hardest thing as somebody who does both is - and I'm very serious as an actor, and I consider myself very serious as a musician, engineer, music artist - is learning that it's OK to be versatile.

Kat Graham

I don't consider myself an entertainer. I consider myself an artist, and I think with that comes responsibility.

Mark Foster

In a weird way, I never wanted - I don't consider myself a very good writer. I consider myself okay; I don't consider myself great. There's Woody Allen and Aaron Sorkin. There's Quentin Tarantino. I'm not ever gonna be on that level. But I do consider myself a good filmmaker.

Sam Esmail

I consider myself a musician.

Caroline Shaw

I consider myself more of an international artist than I do a one-territory artist, which I think is a blessing.

Melanie Fiona

I don't consider myself a great drummer. I consider myself just a music fan that's a very, very passionate artist, and the drums just happen to be my instrument.

Mike Portnoy

I consider myself a musician. I like to play everything.

John 5

I consider myself more of a producer and a musician than a DJ.

Kygo

I prefer the word 'musician.' I'm a musician and a composer. I have a problem with the word 'artist.' I don't know if it's the same in English, but words like 'artist' and 'star' put people on a pedestal, which is not really good for my brain.

Stromae

I can sing, but I consider myself a bass player. I'm, you know, a musician first.

Michael Anthony

Interestingly, I matured as a musician and as an artist before I matured as a man. What I mean by that is, I was ready to be completely vulnerable and honest with myself and unapologetic when it comes to how I express myself in my medium. But I wasn't as secure in doing that when it came to just being myself.