Musician Quotes

There's still a lot I need to do as a player, as a musician, as a sound creator. I have commissioned 170 pieces: that's still not enough, there are still lots and lots of composers I would like to approach. When I see a composer and I see a performer, I think to combine those forces.

'Musician' is not a very respected title. I'm not a musician.

I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out of any situation. I think it was that more than anything.

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.

I got by as a musician since day one. I don't live beyond my means. I have real cheap tastes.

There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.

It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice.

If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.

As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish.

As a musician usually music is your way out.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard.

I am a Slavic musician and it is deeply inside of me.

I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio.

I never minded being thought of as a pop star. People have always thought I wanted to be seen as a serious musician, but I didn't, I just wanted people to know that I was absolutely serious about pop music.

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work.

The problem was the journalists who also did not understand much of my music, but they wrote about it. I think you fell into the usual trap laid out by parts of the press and other writers: that the poor musician has always to fight the evil companies and managers.

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.

I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in the music business. You really have to work hard and diligently. Sometimes actors can be lazy and get away with it, but you can't do that if you're a musician.

Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

As a musician, basically the masses never thought I was a musician.

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.

I'm a musician because I love it and it's supposed to be fun.

That said, everything's important, and every musician who plays on the record is an integral part of it.

For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy.

The sound was my greatest concern. There were certain difficulties getting used to the way every musician can hear his or herself, the way each of them relates to the musician in the next seat.

The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective.