Top 1200 Famous Musician Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous.

When I go to Atlanta, I'm famous. I can get on a flight, anything. Because they're watching every show, and if you're black, you famous.

I never wanted to be famous. The characters I do are famous, and that's fine for me.

If I got too famous, I'd just quit acting, but I think it's highly unlikely I'm going to get really famous.

It's amazing, but I guess that happens when you become overly famous. Every week now, I get more famous.

I didn't have any aspirations of becoming famous or successful; in fact I was scared to death of all that. I remember somebody once said that if a rock musician goes on tour, he goes insane. I was very impressionable and I carried this useless weight of fear around with me about going on tour, all because of this thing somebody said.

I'm not just looking to be famous and attach myself to famous names. I want to make history in the business in terms of creativity.

I'm not famous; I am simply very well-known to certain people. Famous is something different.

People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.

I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day? I couldn't think of anything worse.

Who doesn't want to be famous? I am famous. I'm dying to be on TV.

If you're famous, I don't - for the life of me - I don't understand why any famous person would ever be on Twitter.

You can do anything when you're famous. That's why famous people are so dumb.

It's very hard, when you're a famous person, to "de-famous" your home, but tokens of my fame just felt like a burden for my children. And for me.

I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.

The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous.

I'm like really famous. I got a famous anus.

So Nemerov showed us this picture, which is of Apollo flaying Marcius. You don't think of Apollo as being the sort of person who would skin someone alive. But the story behind it was that there was this guy who was a really great musician, and all the women loved him, and people started saying he was the best musician in the world, so Apollo got jealous and he challenged this guy to a musical dual. They would each play a song and the muses would judge who was the better musician.

I'm a mother, and that's really important. Today, the mother and the musician can sit next to each other. Even when the musician is out there in full swing, the mother doesn't get switched off.

You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.

Famous is celebrityism, and I don't want that... I know that I'm not that. Everybody knows who you are. I can't imagine living that life, but I don't think I consider myself famous.

I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized.

Bruce was famous, but not 'Elvis famous.' He was confident and lighthearted. Comfortable in his own skin. Or so it seemed.

People have heard my music, but all my famous songs were made famous by somebody else... But that was my goal.

I'd rather be remembered as a famous painter than a famous model, so I'll have to start the ball rolling now.

I started as a musician. I play the saxophone, but from the age of 17, I realised that it's very hard to make a living as a jazz musician in Australia. So I went for an audition and got an acting job and, fortunately, I completely fell in love with that.

If you're famous for being famous, that's usually a four-year career.

I didn't want to be famous for its own sake. I wanted to be famous so as to be happy.

Everybody want famous, like me to be a famous director.

I wanted to be a musician. I just wanted to be famous because I wanted to escape from what I felt was my limitation in life... And I wanted to write music, and I didn’t know what I was doing and I never had the technique or understanding of it... But I’ve always played the piano and I can improvise on the piano, but the problem is that I can’t write down what I write. I can read music but I can’t write numbers.

Obviously, [Wham!] made me a lot more comfortable as a musician. I was very confident that I would become a successful musician, but I had no idea I would be a celebrity.

I have the ability to move around without being recognized all the time. I mean, you want to be famous - but not too famous.

If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before.

I don't think my skill level is up there as a musician. I think I'm best at writing in general. The musicians that I know are really good, and I feel like I have a lot to do until I become a musician.

There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent.

Thank God I'm a horrible musician. Good singer, horrible musician.

I handle fame by not being famous...I'm not famous to me.

My mother was loved by so many people, famous and not so famous.

I feel like a part of my role being a musician and part of why I want to be a musician is to show women an alternative to sort of the cultural norms, the stereotypes of what we're supposed to be, demure and quiet and motherly.

Rich and famous is not bad, but poor and famous sucks.

My dad was a professional musician; my mom played, too, but just for fun. All my siblings played. The house was full of music books, videos, albums. I guess it's not surprising that I ended up becoming a musician.

No doubt there are people who are our guests [ in Oh, Hello] who are more famous, but to me, Mel Brooks is the most famous person. So that was really cool.

My intention when I came into this industry was to be a musician, not necessarily a recording artist, just a musician in general. And that's the reason I went to college and got my degree, which has been great for me. It's helped me a lot with my career.

The music that I play is much more accepted in America. Do you know what I mean? Americans recognize and not necessarily country music. I go to a lot of places in Canada and they go "I don't like country music" and they think I'm a country musician. When I am a country musician but not a country musician like they think of.

The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.

I want to be famous so I can be humble about being famous. What good is my humility when I am stuck in this obscurity?

To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun.

Celebrity culture, it's everywhere, isn't it? It's reality TV, Big Brother. I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day?

The sound was my greatest concern. There were certain difficulties getting used to the way every musician can hear his or herself, the way each of them relates to the musician in the next seat.

Since I was four, my goal was to be a famous singer and a famous actor.

I always work only with friends, but it must be about them and myself. Because I film only very personal moments, nothing preplanned, staged or written, it has to be real and spontaneous. Some of them have become famous, some are not yet famous, some will never be famous. But they are all my friends.

The Kardashians can be famous for being famous. What do they do? I can't figure it out.

I guess I am famous in a way. I would rather consider it recognizable - I think that is more logical. I don't feel famous.

That's my contribution - running a sound, healthy company that serves millions of customers well and employs hundreds of thousands of people. What else am I going to do? I'm not an artist. I'm not a writer. I'm not a musician. I'd love to be a tennis player or musician. I'm not.

I wouldn't buy somebody's album on a dare if they called him a musician's musician. I don't write to be a writer's writer. I don't want to be like the little-magazine writer.

Once you lose that musician part -not just the playing, I'm talking about musician attitude- then you're lost, man. Especially if you started out that way. It feels so good to be back, starting from the ground up.

When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.

Slowly, over time, I learned enough that I started considering myself a musician, where I actually knew how to play instruments. But still, when I talk to my real musician friends, they're calling chords out, and I have no idea what they're talking about.

Some people don't care why they are famous; they just want to be famous, and that makes my skin crawl a bit.

You're not famous unless people's mothers know who you are. Everybody else, you think you're famous, but you're just hot, and heat cools off.