Top 1200 Greatest Musician Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

My father was a cocky, long-haired musician, a songwriter.

I'm a songwriter, an artist, and a musician. I do not have to try to be that; I just am.

All I ever thought about was music and being a musician.

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

I'm not a trained musician or singer, but I can turn out a song.

I started out as a musician, and I ended up as a cartoon.

Anytime a musician says they're going to retire they're lying.

I've grown in a lot of ways - as a musician, as performer, as a songwriter.

Chicago is the greatest of all baseball cities. I make no exception, although I have been treated well wherever I have been. It is the greatest city because the fans will stick to a loser season after season. I have had my share of defeats, so I should know.

I heard of somebody once who said he was interested in doing the greatest amount of good for the greatest number, and that the greatest number was number one. That was himself. That may sound like a little bit of selfishness, but if that is selfishness, at least it is a very intelligent selfishness. Everyone has a right to be interested in himself, and I am confident that God wants us to be interested in ourselves first; that is, the first soul that anyone should bring to God should be his own soul.

You don't have to be a good musician if you've got certain computer skills.

The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective.

I still have a fantasy of being a musician when I grow up.

I would rather win souls than be the greatest king or emperor on earth; I would rather win souls than be the greatest general that ever commanded an army; I would rather win souls than be the greatest poet, or novelist, or literary man who ever walked the earth. My one ambition in life is to win as many as possible.

Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine majesty, likewise we experience that we derive the greatest joy of which we are capable in this life from the same contemplation, even though it is much less perfect.

I've always felt like an imposter, in the whole, as a musician.

The whole process of this record was an education for me as a musician.

Who was the greatest business man ever. . . The greatest salesman? Advertiser? Who? . . . It was Jesus. . . Jesus was the founder of modern business. . . he picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organization that conquered the world!

The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that the greatest intolerance and violence of that century were practiced by those who believed that religion caused intolerance and violence.

The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.

An intimate encounter with Jesus is the most transforming experience of human existence. To know him as he is, is to come home. To have his life, joy, love, and presence cannot be compared. A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.

I'm a failed musician rather than a successful writer.

I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale...

I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale.

I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.

I'm not saying I'm the bee's knees. But I am a legitimate musician.

In a lot of groups, you can change a musician, and it doesn't mean anything.

I've never been a jam-band sort of musician.

Louie is hugely talented. But I get very annoyed at the way the media... say, 'Louis C.K. is the greatest stand-up in the world.' He's not the greatest stand-up in the world. He's not funnier than Dave Attell.

The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music.

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

As a musician to hang out with a politician, I think it's disgusting.

Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!

See, I have two selves in me - a musician and a composer.

God knew we would make mistakes. Life is all about mistakes. It is constant change and growth. Our greatest challenges in life will one day be known to us as our greatest teachers.

I'm a musician first and sight has never had anything to do with it.

If I hadn't turned out to be a filmmaker, I would have been a musician.

Patti [ Scialfa] was an artist and a musician and she was a songwriter. And she was a lot like me in that she was transient also. She worked busking on the streets in New York. She waitressed. She had - she just lived a life - she lived a musician's life. She lived an artist's life. So we were both people who were very uncomfortable in a domestic setting, getting together and trying to build one and seeing if our particularly strange jigsaw puzzle pieces were going to fit together in a way that was going to create something different for the two of us. And it did.

I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.

Chefs hate desserts. The smartest thing a chef can do is hire a great pastry chef. Cooking savory food is all about feel - you season something, you taste it, you go back in and adjust, more butter, more olive oil, more acid, whatever you want to get it to taste the way you want. Pastries are like a science project. To me, the greatest chefs are the ones who have the greatest feel for food, while the greatest pastry chefs have to be people that are extremely precise.

The greatest wealth of this nation is not only the mergers of giant corporations or the possibility of further globalization of the infrastructure of the world. In the United States, our greatest single source of wealth is the minds and talent of our young people. Not to use it is stupid - to waste it is a crime.

You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset.

The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.

I am a Slavic musician and it is deeply inside of me.

As an artist or musician, you want to be remembered for the music you make.

Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician.

Run towards your fears. Embrace them. On the other side of your greatest fears lives your greatest life.

Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.

Not everyone deserves to be a musician, you get lucky enough to be one.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

I don't know anyone on my mom's or dad's side that was a musician.

There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.

What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?

You could argue that [the decline of public schools] is one of the major disasters in our lifetimes. We took one of the greatest successes in the history of the earth and turned it into one of the greatest disasters in the history of the earth.

I suppose I would still be a communicator, maybe a musician.

I always sort of saw myself as different from a musician.

A book is a private thing, citizen; it belongs to the one who writes it and to the one who reads it. Like the mind itself, a book is a private space. Within that space, anything is possible. The greatest evil and the greatest good.

A, C, and G are the only chords any honest musician needs.

I would rank George Washington as America's greatest president, but he only had to defeat what was then the world's greatest military power with a ragtag group of irregulars and some squirrel guns, whereas Ronald Reagan had to defeat liberals.