Top 1200 Musician Love Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door.

I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff.

'Some Kind Of Monster' is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you're watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

For me, the one thing I've got going for me in terms of my attributes as a musician is vision.

I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do.

Ultimately, musicians of the world must come to realize the potential of their calling... If the musician is illuminated from within, he becomes a lamp that lights other lamps.

Becoming a musician was all about escape. It was about getting away from the foulness that was me.

If you're more interested in looking like a hipster, a jazz musician, or a young hunk, I'd recommend the pork pie. It has a narrow brim and a flat top.

When I look back on my life, I don't have regrets about what I didn't do. If I'd become a musician, it could have ruined my life.

My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor. I just happen to be an author.

When you find a waiter who is a waiter and not an actor, writer, musician or poet, you've found a jewel.

When I left the band I said Look, I am ready to move on. I was interested in playing with some of the other people that I had bee a studio musician with.

As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.

I try not to date musicians. It's all I've dated. Every guy I've dated is a musician. Obviously, it's not working.

My whole purpose of being a musician is to not follow the rules, so if I set rules for myself, I've already failed.

I never became primarily a musician! I've always been a wanderer and I'm always bored.

I wanted to be a musician but I didn't have the talent for it, so I decided I wanted to be famous, so I became an actor.

I played guitar when I was a kid, a little bit. I can tool around with a guitar, but I'm certainly not a musician.

Independent music gives a musician that chance to narrate their personal journey through music.

I feel very privileged to have played China, and the pyramids, all these fantastic places, but it created a kind of smoke curtain between the audience and me as a musician.

The thing is that I'm an actor first, and in 'Once,' I was able to be a musician and a singer as well as an actor.

I tried to play anything people would hire me to play, because I was a musician.

When a street musician lowered his violin to inquire, 'Hey lovely, what you got there?' she said, 'Musicians who ask questions,' and kept on dragging.

With time, art developed Bip, my alter ego. He was not only a lion tamer or a street musician but a soldier revealing the tragedy of ephemeral life.

The point is that the arts are important enough to have influenced the greatest minds and talents we know. Albert Einstein said that if he were not a physicist, he would probably be a musician.

I had this fantasy vision of what a career as a musician was like. And then I grew up and actually got in the business and realized, it doesn't often work that way.

A musician carries the music within him. He needs no specific instrument. he is the music.

I love playing football every day. I love working hard, I love training, I love the games; I love the challenge. As long as that still applies, I don't see any reason to call time on something that makes me so happy.

And that is the trouble with all lovers: they want more love, because they don't understand that the real desire is not for more love, but for something more than love. Their language ends with love; they don't know any way that is higher than love, and love does not satisfy. On the contrary, the more you love the more thirsty you become. At the fourth center of love, one feels a tremendous satisfaction only when energy starts moving to the fifth center.

My name's Darren. I'm a musician, part time idiot. That's a full time job actually.

I was never interested in singing in the church or school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.

I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz.

Love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, I'll be anybody you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and big hair. Take me apart. Make me into anything, but just love me.

I'd hit thirty, I'd sort of failed as a musician, I'd failed as an artist I felt at the time.

Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer.

A painter has his brushes, a musician his instrument and as an actor you use your body.

Being an actor is a much more structured life than being a musician.

While my mother wanted me to be a musician, I wanted to become an electronic engineer.

We all grew up idolizing another musician. That's how this works. That's how music is created.

I was busy enough when I was just a musician. I wasn't making all that much money but I was busy.

Yes, I'm a musician. I also like to play with others, sometimes more, sometimes less.

I don't want to be looked at as just that guy with the best mixtape of the year. I want to be, all-in-all, an incredible musician.

Every musician out there wants to be judged on the merit of their songwriting, the merit of their performing abilities.

When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.

A grandmaster must memorize thousands of chess duels in his head, as these are for him what words of the mother tongue are to the ordinary people and what notes are to a musician.

I am a musician by rights, and I played in Asbury Park in the old African Room in the Robert Trent Hotel next to the Albion. That was in the early '60s.

A good musician should say: We can live without air but not without music!

When I was younger, I was always a musician that could play by ear better than I could analytically.

It never really occurred to me to seek out a female influence, a female musician.

I never said that I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid. I didn't know. I thought I was going to be a singer and musician. That's what I had been doing, for a huge part of my life.

I just always knew that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician. I never had any doubts.

You can't just be a musician; you have to be an entertainer and perform and act just to hit the bar.

My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.

I got my style. I got my own way of playing. I'm a musician. I'm self-taught.

A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.

I'm a musician, so for the most part I've always thought that the musicians were equally as inspiring to listen to - maybe more so, in some cases - in addition to the artists.

Growing up in a band is weird - you get stuck hanging on to what it is you think you are. But what I took into Depeche was that punk ethic, that you don't have to be accomplished to be a musician. If you've got ideas, you can do this.

Being a musician doesn't take away your right as a citizen to speak your mind.

More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context.

When you're a musician and you release an album, you have to accept the criticism - and I accept it! But it's something I'll never get used to.