Musician Quotes

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.

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.

Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer.

The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.

It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician.

You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.

The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them.

Being an American musician means being adventurous.

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.

To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.

A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's attention for two hours.

You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels.

The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.