Top 1200 Famous Musician Quotes & Sayings - Page 17
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Last updated on December 12, 2024.
I love writing songs and being a musician, but you can't really buy the feeling of connecting with people.
There's something really special to me about sharing mutual admiration with another musician.
Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums.
Everything that I do is limitation and complete intuition. I'm a human being. I'm not a musician. I'm not an entertainer. I don't know anything!
I'm a much better musician than astronomer. I think the world got the right choice.
When I was 12, I decided to become a musician. 'Physical Graffiti' was the first album I ever owned.
I don't know whether you [musician] can be all things to everybody, which is why there are different kinds of music.
As a musician, as a horn player, sometimes I even get bored listening to all instrumental music.
Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.
And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous.
I don't need pity. I want to be looked at like a musician, because I am one. I happen to be deaf.
It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.
I earned my famous name.
If you can't be famous, at least you can be notorious.
I don't do ski racing to be famous.
My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.
I'm gonna be famous forever.
It was never in my mind to be famous.
Well, it made you famous.
There is something embarrassing about asking for money, but if I hadn't done that, I would have not continued to be a professional musician.
My advice for young people is that, if you want to be a musician, the thing to do is practice eight hours a day.
I wanted to be successful, not famous.
Every time I play with a new musician I absorb something, even if it's someone you don't like!
I never thought being a musician would be something I could make a career out of.
I've continued to pursue other interests in my downtime, but I'm glad I'm a musician. It's the perfect career for me.
I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me.
I think that virtuosity is the first sign of morality in a musician. It means you're serious enough to practice.
No matter what comes your way, being a musician, you will never, ever learn to play it all.
Now as a musician, if you have it within you, you can create your own reality. Believe me, it's a novelty.
There is this power that comes with being famous.
I'm lucky to have had the opportunity to perform with bands that have influenced me as a musician over the years.
America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.
I'm not really wanting to be famous.
You kind of hope as a musician that you get some recognition for what you do, and when you do, it's nice. It's a really good feeling.
And of course, the musician - if he's serious - always answers: My last album is my best, otherwise I wouldn't have done it.
I never wanted to be famous.
I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a "jazz musician" - it's a big responsibility.
As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.
My hair was famous before I was.
To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
I like famous people!
I want to be famous everywhere.
I don't really want to be famous.
I'm a bred musician - this is generational. For me to just limit myself to rapping is a discredit to my bloodline.
My big journey was around money. I was a successful writer, I was a musician, but I was just always broke.
No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.
I'm a compulsive musician, but it's also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else.
I'm not Madonna-famous and wouldn't want to be.
I don't know what 'famous' is, really.
I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.
Being famous is fun.
Only to the degree that a musician is healing himself or herself through music can a listener be healed.
I'd probably do something that involved music, a booking agent or working at a label, if not being an actual musician.
I see myself more like a novelist or a polygamist than a musician in terms of my output.
I didn't want to be famous or any of that.
I would say to anyone starting out that if their priority in life is happiness, then don't be a musician.
I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff.
I love being famous.
I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.
I want to be famous in my home.
