Musician Quotes

When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.

I signed up to be a musician, I want to perform, I want to sing.

I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a musician, as an artist, record producer, you name it.

What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music.

If it weren't for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am 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.

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician.

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.

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.

Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

As a musician, basically the masses never thought I was a musician.

Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.

I'm a musician because I love it and it's supposed to be fun.

That said, everything's important, and every musician who plays on the record is an integral part of it.

For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy.