Musician Quotes

I think one of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.

Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.

Yes, I'm a musician. I also like to play with others, sometimes more, sometimes less.

I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf.

You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.

The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them.

I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.

Being an American musician means being adventurous.

And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that.

To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.

A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's attention for two hours.

You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels.

The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.

I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.

I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.

So it's more the musician in me that makes me stretch out and try different things more than anything. But, like a lot of guitar players, I have one certain niche that's my thing that I'm better at than the others.

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer.

The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.

It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician.

I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way.

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.

I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.

I've also become much more the musician I've always wanted to be.

I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.

Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it.

In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.