Top 1200 Great Musician Quotes & Sayings - Page 17
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Last updated on November 28, 2024.
First of all, I think that is true, if you are a musician, particularly on the come, that you do have to end up in one of these musical centers, some way, to be viable, saleable and so on.
I just want the opportunity to continue to do great films, play great characters and work with great people.
I never thought of myself as successful. I have just done what I love to do. I appreciate that I can continue working as a musician every day.
You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer.
America became great through immigrants... I hope that this great country will recall what has made it great.
Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.
As a musician, you kinda get used to failure in life, and then when things actually start succeeding, it's a very interesting feeling.
When you're a musician and you go out onstage, and you're someone who loves attention, you are going to become a role model to some extent.
I come from a very musical family, and a songwriter, a musician, is a byproduct of the influences of his life, whether cultural, artistically, or emotionally.
I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.
I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.
As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
All my close friends are normal dudes and then I will hang out with some girl who is a musician and everyone thinks that's what it's all about.
There is a certain kind of fire that happens when you fall in love with a musician. I guess you understand one another because you're connected by a creative desire.
You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste.
Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.
Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.
I came to L.A. in 1970, and my desire and my training was to be a studio musician, which I had read about in my senior year in high school.
The reason that I'm here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That's my truth.
It's tough to be in a relationship with a musician, because it reads sometimes as this ego and self-involvement when it's really just concentration and focus.
My love of R&B and hip-hop has influenced my life not even as a musician, but generally in terms of growing up and looking to America as an inspiration.
[Loco De Amor is] a euphoric, melodic romp across the hemisphere... A joyful, fun musician's record from a really good guitarist
I never looked at being a musician any different than waking up one day and wanting to be an accountant or a lawyer.
It's been nice to have a band and people I'm close to that I can get that understanding from and help me realize what I want to do in my life as a musician.
Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.
First of all I think that is true, if you are a musician, particularly on the comeback that you do have to end up in one of these musical centers somewhere to be viable, salable and so on.
This is Graceland. Home of the most famous musician in the world.” “Michael Jackson lived here?” “No, dummy,” Carter said. “Elvis Presley.
Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician.
I'm really not good at anything else, so if I don't make it as a musician, I'll probably just end up living in the woods with a bunch of dogs.
The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a musician is he.
On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work.
I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a musician, as an artist, record producer, you name it.
Don Cooper is an incredible person. He's not only a great pitching coach, but he's a great human being and a great friend.
There are certain relationships I think I'm great at: I'm the world's greatest daughter. I'm a great relative. I believe I'm a great friend.
The main thing a musician would like to do is to give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe.
When you're a musician, you are around your peers a lot, like Slipknot and Alice In Chains... you name the band. We're all just kind of friends.
My mother, who is a Carnatic musician, started a school for children when I was around three, and I grew up listening to her teaching students.
I went to university (Brown), I worked as a designer, I competed in Olympic sport (rowing) ... and I ended up being a musician. It's in the DNA, I guess.
It is curious how people go on believing that the musician knows less about what he is doing than those that judge him.
You can never criticize a monumental musician like Jon Lord or Richie Blackmore, or the part they played in the group, but life goes on.
My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter.
I met musician Ken Farmer in Lorne and he lent me all of his Bessie Smith blues LPs. That's when I started to sing.
While not a musician, my father was a music agent for years before becoming pop culture icon Famous Amos.
Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.
I'm not a human interest story, man. I'm just a musician trying to make some small records and be happy, be peaceful.
No matter what your background or where you are from, the one thing we can all respect is when great athletes and great passion leads to great achievements.
I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not.
Bill Justis was a saxophone player, good musician, arranger, and friend of mine who had a big hit called Raunchy.
My father slapped my thighs with a variety of meats until I began to cry and sulked in the corner. I later became a musician
Every musician writes about past relationships. And other than that, I can promise you, I have very little in common with Taylor Swift.
I can run the gamut with beats that no one else would think of. I'm not a trained musician, so I focus on what feels right before I dispatch to writing.
I'm a proud mainstream musician, but having said that, I do firmly believe there's more to musical talent in India than just Bollywood.
My great-great-great uncle - or maybe it's only two 'greats' - crossbred the first Aberdeen Angus.
Tell me a musician who's got rich off digital sales. Apple's doing pretty good though, right?
Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.
What formed me as a musician, a songwriter, the sound and personality of my band, a whole lot of that happened well before 1991.
As a Latin musician, I understand that there are so many places where people don't know who I am. My albums never came out in Australia or Japan.
There is great wisdom, there's great strength and there's great beauty in all of our religion, and those should be marshaled for good.
I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.
