Top 1200 Greatest Musician Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

Solo, you don't have compromise. It gets back to what's great when you're a musician.

Your attitude is either your best friend or your worst enemy, your greatest asset or your greatest liability

If I wasn't a musician... I think I'd just be endlessly traveling.

As a musician, it's only natural that my music mirrors my life.

I think 'West Side Story' is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, musicals ever put onscreen - or stage, for that matter. I, frankly, like Zeffirelli's 'Romeo and Juliet' very much, too. I grew up with that... I loved it. I loved the score; I loved the acting.

The sexiest woman musician is Alicia Keys.

You never stop trying to make progress as a musician.

I'm a musician, and I'm not interested in being in the Houses of Parliament.

A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught

As a musician, I have always refrained from criticizing another artist.

When I was a musician, I had no intention of taking up acting.

I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.

Especially for Haitian immigrant parents, being a musician is not a job.

The shelf life of an artist or musician isn't particularly long.

I'm a jazz musician in that I have achieved Grade 3 on the French horn.

America's a great country - you better believe it's a great country, one of the greatest on this planet - but even the greatest needs to pay attention. I wish the powerful sources that run this country could understand that.

Success is nice, but it shouldn't be the only reason why you're a musician.

I guess, at the end of the day, I want to be viewed as a musician.

I've never viewed myself as 'just' a musician or singer.

For me, I was a musician long before I was an actor.

Not only am I a musician, but I'm a businessman and a family man.

Being a musician is a job - it is just a really fun one!

I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.

As a musician usually music is your way out.

Bob Dylan, I'd say, is probably my favorite musician.

I'm a musician. It's what I do! I wouldn't be too good at anything else.

As a musician, I don't wanna put out political soundbites.

I try to pay it forward. I do a lot of philanthropic and charity work. Some of my greatest awards, greatest rewards, have not been for comic work but for charity work.

Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality.

Combing my hair doesn't make me a better musician.

I copied (Shoeless Joe) Jackson's style because I thought he was the greatest hitter I had ever seen, the greatest natural hitter I ever saw. He's the guy who made me a hitter.

To me, the thing love and cinema have in common is that they are about seeing. The greatest act of love you can give to anyone is to see them exactly as they are. That's the greatest act of love because you wash away imperfections.

A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.

Why then should words challenge Eternity, When greatest men, and greatest actions die? Use may revive the obsoletest words, And banish those that now are most in vogue; Use is the judge, the law, and rule of speech.

Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.

It's important for me to be with a musician or someone who has a creative mind.

I trained a bit in music because of my brother, who is a musician.

I'm a producer for fun. I'm not a professional schooled musician or anything.

II'm quite a successful musician, but I'm not sure if it's my vocation.

Every musician that comes along teaches me something.

I just wasn't getting anywhere. I was still a backup musician.

I mean, I don't even think of myself as a musician, really.

I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.

I went to public school, and it shaped me as a musician.

If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot

I've never really considered myself a musician.

Your greatest adversary is also your greatest teacher. Like it or not, it is the job of certain people to bring out the worst in you. What they trigger is already in you. They are here to reveal the sore, tender wounded places in your heart and mind, and they are providing you with a wonderful and divine opportunity for healing.

One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound.

For a musician, music is the best way to unite with God.

The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.

The only way a musician can express feelings is playing.

If you're a musician, there's no instrument that can be withheld from you. If you're drawn to it, develop the talent for it.

I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician.

People say that jealousy is the greatest enemy of love. They’re wrong. The greatest enemy of love is boredom.

I am a musician, ya know; music is my world.

I'd love to work with Prince. He's such an amazing musician.

I'm a musician. Anything I've done as an actor has come from that.

Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.

I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world that have disease from their parents, that have no chance to be a human being, practically. Delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things just marked when they're born. That to me is the greatest sin - that people can - can commit.

I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer and I love rock 'n' roll.