Musician Quotes

Being a musician is a noble profession.

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs.

Not everyone deserves to be a musician, you get lucky enough to be one.

It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.

I love being a musician. I love the lifestyle. But I think it's probably as difficult and frustrating as anything.

The sexiest woman musician is Alicia Keys.

Of course, I would be depressed sometimes, and my Mom would be worried about me because I would just sleep to escape. Cause I was so scared of being a musician or artist, or whatever you want to call it.

I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.

My life won't be a series of either/ors - musician or actor, rock or country, straitlaced or rebellious, this or that, yes or no. The real choices in life aren't that simple.

A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.

I've never been a fearful person. When I was growing up, I wanted to be an actress, a writer, and a musician and I never really processed that those are the three hardest jobs - I just never even processed it.

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.

You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when you're not making money, people think that you're a good jazz musician.

I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff.

I've been a musician my whole life. I'm really enjoying making music again.

Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.

Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.

All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.

As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.

Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother were both musicians and so I'm a musician. It was just natural that I should be a musician 'cause I was born into the family.

I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.

But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.

As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation.

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.

If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer?

And you realise you're doing a public service in making people happy - as a musician you can give people something a doctor, a lawyer, a politician cannot give them that. It's not scientific. It's spiritual - a good feeling. And although you don't know them personally, the audience are like your friends.

Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.

Musicians from the beginning of time have been there to express the mood and the musical feelings in the air for whatever's going on in that particular culture. It's the greatest joy as a musician to be able to translate that, be part of something and watch the scenery around you.