Musician Quotes

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 feel very honored to be playing with Bill Pierce. He's such a great musician.

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.

I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that.

But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing.

There are things that I am very proud of and there are things that you are not so proud of. But I think that applies to any musician.

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.

Who told you I was a musician?

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.

I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way.

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.

I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.

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

I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.

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

Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it.

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.

When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great musician. When he heard me, he said 'Are you sure you're Ellis's son?'

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.

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

I've never been a fearful person. When I was growing up, I wanted to be an actress, a writer, and a musician and I never really processed that those are the three hardest jobs - I just never even processed it.