Musician Quotes

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

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?

In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.

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.

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.

Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door.

And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be an actor. My father used to say to me you should be an actor if you want to be in the arts.

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

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.

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.

No, I've heard over the years that it's nice for them to see somebody who's like, you know, a well-known successful musician who's Asian. I've heard it from a few musicians, too.