Musician Quotes

This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something. He doesn't have confidence in himself or else he doesn't believe in what he's doing.

As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

He has a method that likens the musician to an athlete, so I do physical exercises designed to keep a musician in shape in order to perform the function, which is to play music.

I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.

I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.

Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.

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

There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

Instead of going to college, I spent my time out on the road learning how to be a better musician.

First of all, I think that is true, if you are a musician, particularly on the come, that you do have to end up in one of these musical centers, some way, to be viable, saleable and so on.

Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.

I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.

Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.

My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician.

A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special - spiritually or however you can.

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

One thing, when you're an actor, you finish something and then you have to worry about what the next gig is. When you're a musician, you can always write your own stuff, and I'm working on new stuff for a new album right now.

A musician can get lost to what he is in the session busines as it was.

I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.

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.

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.