Best 1187 quotes in «musician quotes» category

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

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 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 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 good enough musician to like completely master something in a couple of days and turn it around.

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 good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.

I'm not really interested in a ton of female musicians but there is something about Britney that compelled me - the way she sings and just the way she looks.

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

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.

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

I'm such a copycat."I want to try and do this like the Donovan song 'Changes'," or "I want to do this bit from Van Morrison." I don't know how else to illustrate something, because I'm not a super-great musician. In that way, I'm more like the producer.

I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.

I'm so proud that my offspring became a musician. I'm full of awe that we are able to have a whole family live the life of artists.

I'm still on my demos. I'm still making my mind up and deciding what kind of artistic production to come in. I do things at home with my musicians but I would like an artistic producer to come in and work on them.

I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.

I'm trying everything I can not to be jaded 'cause I don't like jaded musicians.

I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.

In ancient times the greatest of the prophets were great musicians.

I never became primarily a musician! I've always been a wanderer and I'm always bored.

I never have been a musician; I'm not actually capable. Because I can't even pretend to acquire the gift, all of my first feelings about art are still attached to music. I look at it yearningly, I look at it wonderingly. I behold it from afar, as something unattainable, something outside of myself, from which I can take nourishment, but I can't domesticate and master.

I never looked at being a musician any different than waking up one day and wanting to be an accountant or a lawyer.

I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can.

I never use someone just because they are great musicians. I work with people who have the same kind of feeling towards the music that I do, and the subject that I'm speaking of at that time.

I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that was that.

I never wanted to get a job of musician. That was kind of my thing. I came from somewhat of a musical family. I had an uncle on Broadway. My dad kind of knows how to play instruments. Although, I always find it annoying when he does play an instrument.

In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.

In my imaginary utopian world there would be a greater allegiance between music writers and musicians.

In order to function and pay our bills and our taxes and feed our families and stuff, musicians have to make a living. It's not about being a millionaire. It's about being able to survive. When there are people constantly stealing from you, it's quite frustrating. It's a matter of changing the public's option about doing it.

In fact, many musicians are the happiest when the artist and audience re-interpret or re-imagine the content of the songs.

Initially, when I was first starting as a musician, I was a very nationalistic figure and I used to believe in doing a lot of national songs. I would always have a national song in the albums I did.

In L.A. everyone is an actor. In Texas, everyone's a musician.

Interplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes.

In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer. Even though singers, particularly singers who can play piano... If you go to the office of career development, you can get a gig much easier. Still, musicians tend to look down on you. I think they've got some nerve, because if they could sing, they would do it, but most of them can't.

I once painted a concert singer and on the chestnut frame I carved the opening bars of Mendelssohn's Rest in the Lord. It was ornamental unobtrusive and to musicians I think it emphasized the expression of the face and pose of the figure.

I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.

In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.

I play classical music almost exclusively. I never mastered jazz or gospel in the way that my mother did. She was a fine improvisational musician. I pretty much have to stick to what's written on the page.