Musician Quotes

I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I'm up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.

If a musician wants to be an actor, everyone thinks that's pretty cool. But if an actor wants to play a song, even if they've been doing it for 40 years, that's bad news.

I hope America sees I am a goofy guy andI'm kind a crazy, I hope they see that I am a musician aswell, that I have music all around my body - I'm just exfoliating music, and I just hope America sees that.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs.

I mean, I don't even think of myself as a musician, really.

David Bowie's my favorite musician. I love him above all, but I'm really into rap a lot right now.

Neil's effect on the band was immediate and very fulfilling. He adds a certain edge to the sound and, of course, he is an incredible musician. We became a better band because of the inclusion of Neil Young.

I've been a musician since childhood, and music is my first love. I love it.

My musical background is like almost every non classical musician in the world. One day a special record was heard and that was it. I was hooked, started trying to play various instruments and was off to bar land to become a rock star. What else?

I always try to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young musician. One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

Every musician liked Peggy Lee, but not the general public.

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.

I've dated the sweet mama's boy, the musician rocker, the struggling artist - basically a lot of people without jobs.

Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.

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

I feel like you're not a real musician or entertainer if you can't go into a room, pick up an instrument and entertain people.

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.

I think it's just an awkward time right now to be a musician.

I didn't decide to become a musician until the age of 15, which is quite late.

The sexiest woman musician is Alicia Keys.

Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.

And of course, the musician - if he's serious - always answers: My last album is my best, otherwise I wouldn't have done it.

What I have to do as a musician is do everything that is not on the music.

Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.

I love music so much I love what I do. I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.

The real amazing thing about all of this is I think I've maintained the mentality of a musician throughout it all, which I'm proudest of. And I'm still playing on people's records and singing on people's records.