Best 1187 quotes in «musician quotes» category

I live in Topanga Canyon, which is like a faux-rustic enclave in Los Angeles. I love the sounds of all the critters outside - the frogs, owls, crickets, and birds. Some of the birds around here are pretty accomplished musicians. You can learn a lot from them.

I'll leave it to other people to evaluate the legacy of my book, but I'm very moved when musicians tell me that they've been inspired by my book.

I'll probably pay more attention to the musicians in the pit than the stars because they're the closest you're going to get to normal people in the audience.

I love acting. I can't imagine anything else that I would do. I know a lot of actors that really want to be directors and be musicians and all that stuff. I like acting and I feel like I'm good at it. It kinda makes me happy. It's actually pretty easy to me and I can't imagine doing anything else at this point because I've been doing it for so long.

I love being a musician. I love the lifestyle. But I think it's probably as difficult and frustrating as anything.

I love being a drummer but I love being a musician in general and I love the Foo fighters.

I love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.

I love film, and I would love to be a part of something that people universally love as a piece of film. Sure. Of course I would. And I would love to take acting lessons, and see that side of it someday. But I'm a musician.

I love music and I love musicians. I separate them. I'm a big fan of Lily Allen's music, but I'm not a fan of her personality. I differentiate the two.

I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.

I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.

I love playing anyone that does stuff that I don't do. The fun of playing an assassin is that I've never killed anybody. The fun of playing a brilliant musician is that I don't actually play any instruments.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm just a musician and a record producer.

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 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.