Musician Quotes

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.

The real amazing thing about all of this is I think I've maintained the mentality of a musician throughout it all, which I'm proudest of. And I'm still playing on people's records and singing on people's records.

No, I've heard over the years that it's nice for them to see somebody who's like, you know, a well-known successful musician who's Asian. I've heard it from a few musicians, too.

There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience!

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

I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing. I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

As a musician usually music is your way out.

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

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.

I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.

It's been important to me to be a good activist, a good thinker, a good musician, a good singer, and a good entertainer. You can't do it all, but I have walked those delicate lines as best I know how.

If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not?

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

And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be an actor. My father used to say to me you should be an actor if you want to be in the arts.

Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.

And of course, the musician - if he's serious - always answers: My last album is my best, otherwise I wouldn't have done it.

What I have to do as a musician is do everything that is not on the music.

Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

I have never learned to read or write music so I am not a virtuoso musician like the others you mentioned. I am completely unable to play like them because I never learned classical music, I just developed my own crazy style!

I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.

To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.

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

There's so much excellent new music around that I can't afford to buy it all and I haven't the time to review as much as I'd like. I can't remember a better time to be a musician or to listen to music!

I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema.

I confess to being a frustrated musician.

I'm just a musician and a record producer.

I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn't especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my way back to being interested in music through computers.