Musician Quotes

He wasn't a great father. He was a great musician. That's always been a touchy one, and it will be until I can find the answer, but I don't know if there is one.

The project which we developed, however, was for a sound piece and I was initially curious that a sculptor should be interested in working with a musician, especially on a project for radio.

Finding a good bus driver can be as important as finding a good musician.

I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned to the athlete I once was. I'm integrating all the parts of me - jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher - and becoming stronger as a result.

I was approached by Oxfam to go to Mali as their ambassador and get involved in their various initiatives out there. But I felt that was missing the point of using me, a musician.

I wanted to get my recording and become a musician again, work; with other people, do that kind of thing because I kind of got away from that for a while once we started happening, you know, selling records, sold out concerts.

KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.

There are so many things I want to do. Like, I want to get an artist, a musician, a photographer, and a bunch of dancers that I know and just travel across Africa and just film it and just see what happens. Do and learn as much as I possibly can. Luckily, I have a lot more time.

I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something to do, and feel like a musician every day even if I wasn't working.

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

I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.

No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.

I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.

May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life.

I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.

Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with a lot of sort of long-term commitments and obligations.

Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.

My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard.

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

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.

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.