Musician Quotes

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician.

I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer.

Combing my hair doesn't make me a better musician.

Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money.

I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff.

I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or to put in a recording studio, or something like that.

I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.

I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness.

The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.

Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however, there is a glorious unity.

If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.

I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer - I'm going to push myself to do as many things as I can and see where it goes.

As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.

I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities.

The fountain of youth with the youthful young musician is one meaning, and the fountain of youth with the youthful energy of the leader is another meaning.

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

'Cause I felt I didn't have anything else to prove as a musician... and boy was I wrong about that one.

My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.

I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked.

When I did it, I was a starving musician in London in a basement flat, but a simple tune with the right singer or the right situation can become very well liked and accepted. I'm only too pleased to say it happened with that one.

If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close.

I knew nothing of the real life of a musician, but I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion.

If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.

We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It seemed like an interesting idea to go right back 100 years to find the source of some new ideas now.

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.

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.