Musician Quotes

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.

If it takes me 10 years to be the musician I want to be, great.

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.

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

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

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.

If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.

When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great musician. When he heard me, he said 'Are you sure you're Ellis's son?'

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

I feel very honored to be playing with Bill Pierce. He's such a great musician.

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.

I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that.

But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing.

There are things that I am very proud of and there are things that you are not so proud of. But I think that applies to any musician.

Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records.

I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie.

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

Buddy Rich was one of the most incredible technicians in the world, on this planet, but the only people he could really impress, who knew what he was doing was another musician or another drummer.