Musician Quotes

I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can.

But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him.

I've always felt that I would rather see an actor, writer, or musician's work, rather than actually know the person. If you know too much about an artist, it somehow lessens their ability to do their work as well.

You're a musician: You play. That's what you do.

I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It made life a lot easier knowing what I was aiming for.

If it takes me 10 years to be the musician I want to be, great.

Then I was lucky I met with my future husband, and I started new life with my husband, and I was happy again. He was a musician. I start to travel with him through Europe also and around the former Soviet Union.

I like Flea, I like him as a musician.

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.

I'm a compulsive musician, but it's also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else.

I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician.

The problem was the journalists who also did not understand much of my music, but they wrote about it. I think you fell into the usual trap laid out by parts of the press and other writers: that the poor musician has always to fight the evil companies and managers.

There's still a lot I need to do as a player, as a musician, as a sound creator. I have commissioned 170 pieces: that's still not enough, there are still lots and lots of composers I would like to approach. When I see a composer and I see a performer, I think to combine those forces.

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

I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out of any situation. I think it was that more than anything.

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.

I got by as a musician since day one. I don't live beyond my means. I have real cheap tastes.

There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.

It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice.

If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.

As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish.

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.

If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard.

I am a Slavic musician and it is deeply inside of me.

I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio.

I never minded being thought of as a pop star. People have always thought I wanted to be seen as a serious musician, but I didn't, I just wanted people to know that I was absolutely serious about pop music.

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work.

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.

Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.