Top 1200 Greatest Musician Quotes & Sayings - Page 19
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
I'd written songs since I was 16, but I never thought that I would be a musician full time.
I don't know whether you [musician] can be all things to everybody, which is why there are different kinds of music.
I don't need pity. I want to be looked at like a musician, because I am one. I happen to be deaf.
So what, I'm living in a park. Parks are beautiful. I'm a musician. And I'm tired of dumb people who don't know where I come from.
I'd probably do something that involved music, a booking agent or working at a label, if not being an actual musician.
Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
I think if you're a painter, you paint; if you're a golfer, you golf; if you're a fisherman, you fish; if you're a musician, you play music.
The beauty of being a musician is writing songs. That's the best part. It's therapeutic and honest and private.
I don't want to be defined solely by what I do as a jazz musician at a club or a festival. That's not all of me. It's not even close.
I'm a bred musician - this is generational. For me to just limit myself to rapping is a discredit to my bloodline.
My father was a musician, a songwriter and he played at bars and restaurants and my mom was a secretary for an insurance company.
I'm a much better musician than astronomer. I think the world got the right choice.
As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing.
I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.
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!
My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.
I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.
There is nothing normal about a musician's lifestyle; I don't have a nine-to-five job at the post office.
I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.
Everybody knew James Brown. Every musician dreamed of being in his band.
Every time I play with a new musician I absorb something, even if it's someone you don't like!
Once the jazz musician learns all the fundamentals they can keep track of a lot of choices in an instant.
Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.
As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.
When I was 12, I decided to become a musician. 'Physical Graffiti' was the first album I ever owned.
Of course, you have to have a good reputation, especially as an artist, as a musician, so that other musicians would like to play with you.
Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.
You might have asked [about skill] of an artist or a musician or whatever... but with me it just happens.
A musician must lift up the souls of the listeners, and take them towards space.
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.
There's something really special to me about sharing mutual admiration with another musician.
The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty.
America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.
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 a musician, as a horn player, sometimes I even get bored listening to all instrumental music.
No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.
Only to the degree that a musician is healing himself or herself through music can a listener be healed.
When a musician is conveying that fresh feeling, that's what appeals to me, even more so than the style.
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.
I think that virtuosity is the first sign of morality in a musician. It means you're serious enough to practice.
As a musician, I can conquer a lot of hearts through my voice, but as a personality, especially in India, there's little visibility.
I had to take a hard look at myself and my strengths and weaknesses as a singer, songwriter and musician.
I like to call myself a 360-degree artist. I'm a musician, but I have other things I do, too.
I love writing songs and being a musician, but you can't really buy the feeling of connecting with people.
Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums.
I did art; I made furniture. I didn't want to be a cliche - the Beatle's son who became a musician.
I got by as a musician since day one. I don't live beyond my means. I have real cheap tastes.
There's no musician who just wakes up one day and decides, 'This is what I want to do.' It takes some development.
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.
I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff.
I never thought being a musician would be something I could make a career out of.
My big journey was around money. I was a successful writer, I was a musician, but I was just always broke.
The goal as a musician, I think, is to be able to make music as a living for the rest of your life.
I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.
My advice for young people is that, if you want to be a musician, the thing to do is practice eight hours a day.
It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.
And of course, the musician - if he's serious - always answers: My last album is my best, otherwise I wouldn't have done it.
No matter what comes your way, being a musician, you will never, ever learn to play it all.
I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me.
Composers are in some ways the last frontier of musician that gets a paycheck for their musical services.
