Top 1200 Jazz Musician Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I come from a business family. I rebelled from my father to become 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.

Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me.

KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.

I like everything, jazz and classical, and all over the spectrum.

By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of jazz.

The difference between noise and music is in what the musician does with the sounds.

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

The only thing I have ever really cared to be known as is a musician.

I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.

I just want to grow as a musician. that's why I do different languages.

[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.

Being a musician is a given for me-I didn't have much choice in the matter.

I think you have a limited amount of impact as an entertainer, performer, or musician.

When I like a musician I want to see a picture or a video of them.

It's pretty rare in jazz to have a full-on steady band.

I've also become much more the musician I've always wanted to be.

I grew up in a musical family, but nobody was a professional musician.

My dad was a jingle writer, and my mom was a jewelry designer and musician.

Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.

I wanted to be known as a better musician more than anything.

I write and play music. I'd like to be a musician at some point.

Who knows ... we'll be playing Jazz and having a good time!

Jazz comes from anywhere the human being has a soul and has a heart.

I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde.

It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.

I'm a musician, and I discovered the power of music pretty early in life.

Neo soul, hip-hop jazz, we started that.

I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.

I'm not a corny-ass booty freak! I'm the greatest musician of all-time.

Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere.

My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew

I never really thought about becoming a professional musician.

Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.

Spirituality is worthless if it's not practical. Music is my work. I am a musician.

My husband is a musician, and 'Paste' is one of his favorite places to be interviewed by.

Making music, if you're a real musician, you carry on regardless in this world.

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs.

As a jobbing actor or musician, you have to take any work you can get.

There's more to being a musician than just making music.

People unfortunately think that if you progress as a musician you are wimpy. I don't get that.

If it takes me 10 years to be the musician I want to be, great.

Practice like good musician; draw every day.

I've met a lot of jazz musicians in my day, and they're all funny.

Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.

What kills me is that everybody thinks I like Jazz.

As a musician, to be part of anything that promotes peace is very rewarding.

There is nothing more beautiful for a musician to listen and see harmony.

I'd never intended to write a Christmas hit - I was a serious musician!

What is my definition of jazz? "Safe sex of the highest order."

As long as I'm still growing as a musician, it keeps me inspired.

My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew.

As I grew in confidence, I was able to come out and say that I'm a musician.

I think it's just an awkward time right now to be a musician.

I had a degree in economics but also thought of myself as a musician.

Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.

By the time I was in my teens, I was listening to Delta blues and jazz.

I've been a live musician since I started my musical career.

Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life.

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest.