Musician Quotes

First of all, I think that is true, if you are a musician, particularly on the come, that you do have to end up in one of these musical centers, some way, to be viable, saleable and so on.

Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.

I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.

Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.

Feed the musician, and he's out of tune.

The sexiest woman musician is Alicia Keys.

Basically, at some point, one day maybe you can expect to hear some of my music. I haven't really done that yet because my younger brother is a musician and really talented and I want him to come out with his music first.

When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music.

You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville.

A musician can get lost to what he is in the session busines as it was.

I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.

I love the life of a musician but I live the life of a bodybuilder.

I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.

I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound.

If you are a musician and you don't show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people will rip you off. They will sweet talk you into anything.

Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed.

The fact I had my father as an adversary was such a powerful tool to work with. I subconsciously fought him to the degree that I drove me to be one of the most successful musician in the world.

I think one of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.

Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.

Yes, I'm a musician. I also like to play with others, sometimes more, sometimes less.

I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.

My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician.

A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special - spiritually or however you can.

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

One thing, when you're an actor, you finish something and then you have to worry about what the next gig is. When you're a musician, you can always write your own stuff, and I'm working on new stuff for a new album right now.

And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that.