Musician Quotes

I love the life of a musician but I live the life of a bodybuilder.

I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.

I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.

The whole process of this record was an education for me as a musician.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound.

If you are a musician and you don't show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people will rip you off. They will sweet talk you into anything.

Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed.

The fact I had my father as an adversary was such a powerful tool to work with. I subconsciously fought him to the degree that I drove me to be one of the most successful musician in the world.

I think one of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.

Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.

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

The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.

It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician.

You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.

The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them.

Being an American musician means being adventurous.

And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that.

To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.

A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's attention for two hours.

You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels.

The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.

I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.

I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.

So it's more the musician in me that makes me stretch out and try different things more than anything. But, like a lot of guitar players, I have one certain niche that's my thing that I'm better at than the others.

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records.

I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie.