Top 1200 Musician Love Quotes & Sayings

As a musician, basically the masses never thought I was a musician.

I was an independent musician for ten years before I became a musician for movies.

I don't view myself as a musician anymore - I view myself as a human being that functions as a musician when I'm functioning as a musician, but that's not 24 hours a day. That's really opened me up to even more perspectives because now I look at music, not from the standpoint of being a musician, but from the standpoint of being a human being.

If you're a musician, you're a musician; you don't ever get that out of your bones.

My dad is my biggest influence on me as a musician, even though he's not a musician.

I'm a musician, I always was a musician, and now I've got a song on the radio, so I'm definitely a musician.

I'd been trained as a classical musician, but also as a pop musician. My teacher made sure that everything was available.

I think for a classical musician the goal is the same as an electronic musician. A very good professional classical musician must not think about technique.

I'm kind of a terrible musician. I'm a very functional musician. I play just about every instrument in a band setting, functionally. But I should not be taking solos.

I'd love to do something where I played a musician.

He has a method that likens the musician to an athlete, so I do physical exercises designed to keep a musician in shape in order to perform the function, which is to play music.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

'Musician' is not a very respected title. I'm not a musician.

I'm a musician because I love it and it's supposed to be fun.

I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something to do, and feel like a musician every day even if I wasn't working.

I love film, and I would love to be a part of something that people universally love as a piece of film. Sure. Of course I would. And I would love to take acting lessons, and see that side of it someday. But I'm a musician.

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician

I'd love to play a musician in a film.

I don't consider myself a musician who has achieved perfection and can't develop any further. But I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself. Take a musician like John Coltrane. He is a perfect musician, who can give expression to all the possibilities of his instrument. But he seems to have difficulty expressing original ideas on it. That is why he keeps looking for ideas in exotic places. At least I don't have that problem, because, like I say, I find my inspiration in myself.

I've been a musician since childhood, and music is my first love. I love it.

I love being a drummer but I love being a musician in general and I love the Foo fighters.

I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do.

I love music so much I love what I do. I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.

That's my contribution - running a sound, healthy company that serves millions of customers well and employs hundreds of thousands of people. What else am I going to do? I'm not an artist. I'm not a writer. I'm not a musician. I'd love to be a tennis player or musician. I'm not.

I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.

I'm always writing. And, I mean, I always counsel people when they call me a musician: I really do not have the skills of a musician. I really don't think like a musician, though I love music and I perform and sing.

I don't wanna talk about Teo [Macero]. He's a helluva musician, a brilliant musician, but he's just not for me, that's all. I can elaborate on it, but I don't want to do that.

Most people define themselves by what they do - 'I'm a musician.' Then one day it occurred to me that I'm only a musician when I'm playing music - or writing music, or talking about music. I don't do that 24 hours a day. I'm also a father, a son, a husband, a citizen - I mean, when I go to vote, I'm not thinking of myself as 'a musician.'

First, I think of myself as a brand, a businesswoman. Musician is something I just do because it's my passion - I love it and it's something I do for fun. I love music and I love to make people dance.

If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.

My grandfather is a musician, my son is a musician and a singer. My mother played the piano too.

I'm a real musician's musician: I get really geeky on chords and arrangements.

I have a musician friend who, after reading Mountains, told me, "When I read the book, I wanted to quit music altogether and become a doctor." I told him, "Do you really think you can be a better doctor than you are a musician? Nobody needs you as a lousy doctor. Just be the one-of-a-kind, brilliant musician you are, and divert your success somehow to benefit the poor." You can achieve so much more this way.

I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

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

I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be a professional musician, and that means you have to feed yourself with the instrument.

Musician' is not a very respected title. I'm not a musician.

My dad was a musician, and that was his first love, and I think probably, to be really honest, it was my first love as well.

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician.

If a song is cooking in the studio, that's great, but if I can imagine doing it on stage, that's the next level to me. ... Some people love paintings, and some people love poetry, and of course I love all of that, but when a musician is so in control of her instrument, I'm in awe. That's when I start to kind of evaporate into the universe.

I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwriter. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want.

I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words. I don't think I'm even a musician. I don't play a lot of instruments, not really a soloist or anything.

Being a musician - and I like to think of myself as a musician with a capital M - you need to be an omnivore, and I think the best musicians will listen to anything and love everything, and I do.

I started as a musician. I play the saxophone, but from the age of 17, I realised that it's very hard to make a living as a jazz musician in Australia. So I went for an audition and got an acting job and, fortunately, I completely fell in love with that.

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

Solomon was a musician and David was a musician, so it's a profession that I take seriously.

If I could be a musician, I'd do it. I love singing.

As a musician and a guitar player, I can noodle as well as anybody. But from my background as a session musician, I always try to play what is called for by the lyric and listening to the song. As a writer, that's what I do, too.

I made one rule for myself, and I really try to live it: Play music you love, with people you love, for people you love. If I can't be that kind of musician, I'll drive a cab.

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

I am a musician, but I'm another type of musician.

I love a lot of the '70s musicians, like Bonnie Raitt. And I love Sheryl Crow. But probably my favorite musician is a woman by the name of Schuyler Fisk.

One musician listens to another musician, and you get inspired and then you do your thing, but it's yours.

I do love country music. And a real musician.

Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother were both musicians and so I'm a musician. It was just natural that I should be a musician 'cause I was born into the family.

I love being a musician. I love the lifestyle. But I think it's probably as difficult and frustrating as anything.

As a musician, you just want to be able to do what you love.

I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.

In the future, I would like to become a missionary. I'd like to go to countries where I have received much love as a musician and personally return all of that love.