Musician Quotes

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.

The whole process of this record was an education for me as a musician.

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.

Who told you I was a musician?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.