Best 1187 quotes in «musician quotes» category

I love working with different musicians in the studio, that's a real joy working with someone for the first time.

I'm 90% performer, 10% musician. I've always said that Gossip are a band I would go see, not a band I would listen to.

I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I want to try it again and again, and a lot of times my fellow musicians have to hold me back and say, "Nah, I think we got it.

I'm a folk preacher. A folk therapist. A folk musician. I come from authentically that which is of my experience. Therefore, the music is strictly from the soul, strictly improvisational.

I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do.

I'm a great songwriter, but I'm not the most talented musician.

I'm a musician and I'm really blessed, because in my life if I can hold the sticks, I can play.

I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.

I'm a mother, and that's really important. Today, the mother and the musician can sit next to each other. Even when the musician is out there in full swing, the mother doesn't get switched off.

I'm a much better musician than astronomer. I think the world got the right choice.

I'm a musician, and I'm fascinated with the effects of sound, and tone, and pitch and melody and all that sort of stuff. It's the first thing I have to solidify whenever...I get into a character. The first thing I need to get sorted out before I can then move forward, before I can feel any confidence whatsoever, is the voice.

I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.

I'm a musician and, just as the critics are hard on me, I'm hard on the critics.

I'm a musician because I love it and it's supposed to be fun.

I'm a musician; I have to perform. I can't give up. I have to be even more courageous. We know that we have a lot of enemies. Not only in Iran. But that doesn't matter.

I'm a person of the arts. I love the arts very, very, very much. And ah, I'm a musician, I'm a director, I'm a writer, I'm a composer, I'm a producer, and I love the medium. I love film very, very much. I think it's the most expressive of all of the art mediums.

I'm a self-taught musician so how I read music is kind of very weak and I kind of read my own version of tablature, I write my own crappy reminders on what I'm playing.

I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers.

I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.

I'm a terrible musician. While the band members are great, I'm tolerated and affectionately regarded because I do movies, but if I had to make my living as a musician I would starve. I'm like a Sunday tennis player.

I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale...

I'm a weird, bald musician who makes records in his bedroom and lives in the Lower East Side.

I'm definitely musician and storyteller. But I always like to take an active role in things I care about socially and environmentally.

I'm definitely a victim of some weird twisted form of not really relating to female musicians.

I met Gary (Burton) at the Wichita Jazz Festival when I was 18 -- he was one of my favorite musicians and I got to play a few tunes with him there. Shortly after that, I joined his band, which was the equivalent of joining the Beatles for me! He was, and still is, one of the greatest musicians I have ever been lucky enough to be around.

I'm a keen musician. Me and my mates have a great times jamming and recording stuff. We have a great band behind us and have turned my nursery-rhyme songs into quite credible pieces of music.

I'm going to be a superstar musician, kill myself, and go out in a flame of glory.

I'm going to get drunk and insult as many musicians from the 80's as is humanly possible.

I'm a compulsive musician, but it's also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else.

I'm embarrassed when I see Brits abroad; they have their tops off, wear flip flops, and shout at the top of their voices.

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

I'm in a position I never imagined I'd be in as a musician. Bob Dylan built an audience through recording and live shows. The opportunities for an artist today are totally different.

I'm in a very good place now because I do theater, I do TV and I make movies. I was a dancer, so I dance a little bit. I was a musician, so I do a little bit of music. And I do all of this in four or five different languages, and all over the world.

I'm just a musician and a record producer.

I'm just lucky to have the type of friends and musicians and people dedicated to my music that I do.

I'm just one of these unpopular musicians.

I'm more encouraged by the saplings: new music groups, tiny new venues, entrepreneurial musician-composers who aren't waiting to be discovered but are instead building their own Establishment.

I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities.

I'm not a corny-ass booty freak! I'm the greatest musician of all-time.

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

I'm not a martyr, just a musician who dies for your sins. Oh, that's what a martyr is? Very well then, I am a martyr, if you insist.

I'm not a jazz musician, because, I mean, firstly, I can't play anything. I'm not bad on the tamborine. I have a certain way with the triangle. But I'm not a jazz musician ... my band, they always joke, they always say that I'm a disposable, pop, jazz superstar.

I'm not a philosopher so why should I provide anyone with the answers? I'm just a musician, I don't have any solutions. All I'm doing is questioning the status quo, with every record I've made, to a certain extend.

I'm not a good enough musician to like completely master something in a couple of days and turn it around.

I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.

I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer and I love rock 'n' roll.

I'm not trying to save the world. As a musician and artist, it just ain't me.

I’m not saying that maybe there isn’t a kid out there whose behavior hasn’t been influenced by me in some way. I’m sure there is. But I can only speak for myself, and if you’d asked if my behavior had ever been affected by people I’d admired from afar, like musicians or footballers, that’d be a yes, totally.