Musician Quotes

I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something to do, and feel like a musician every day even if I wasn't working.

I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.

I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.

May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life.

I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.

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.

Who told you I was a musician?

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.

This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something. He doesn't have confidence in himself or else he doesn't believe in what he's doing.

As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

He has a method that likens the musician to an athlete, so I do physical exercises designed to keep a musician in shape in order to perform the function, which is to play music.

I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.

I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.

Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.

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

There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

Instead of going to college, I spent my time out on the road learning how to be a better musician.

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.

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.