Musician Quotes - Page 29

He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard.

I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so its difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting - I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels.

I always end up working with people that do a really good job, so I'm the only one that I'm worried about disappointing me, not the musicians ever.

I think there are just a million interviews in anthologies with famous musicians that are about the music, and they're really boring to read.

I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff.

If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot

There's really no reason for any musician, writer, actor to ever take themselves seriously. If you work in a needle exchange, take yourself seriously. You're doing good work. If you're involved in hostage negotiations and saving lives, you can have a sense of entitlement.

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

There's the obvious shift in the tech industry. I'm not really politicized about the whole thing, but it's definitely clear that rent is harder and it's harder for musicians or artists or someone not making a ton of money to live comfortably.

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.

The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music.

You're a musician: You play. That's what you do.

My son is actually named after Beck, the musician. We heard Beck on the radio and thought that was a good nickname for a child. We named our son Beckett so we could call him Beck - we reverse engineered. And then after he was born and I saw the name on the birth certificate I realized Beckett was a really pretentious name, way too literary. Luckily he's grown into it. We nearly named my second son Dashiell. Can you imagine? Beckett and Dashiell. It would have been a disaster of pretentiousness.

The musicians one day are going to listen to me.

A lot of things inspire me. Music, for one; in addition to acting, I'm also a musician.

I think every touring musician sacrifices aspects of their life to do it.

Being a classical musician, you're doing many things anyway. One day you're doing Bach concerto and the next you're doing some avant-garde thing. It's just another hat that I'm allowed to wear.

Jazz musicians are the coolest people on the planet. Can I have some cool?

Musicians are very mysterious and wonderful people to me; I don't know how they do it.

You know what you can gain when you sit down with the Moroccans. As a person and as a musician. That's how you grow.

As a musician, I have always refrained from criticizing another artist.

There has to be some mystery in life, because the joy of being a writer and the joy of being a musician is the joy of discovery. I don't want someone discovering for me what I should be discovering on my own. If a person is discovering for me, then they're living for me. It's my responsibility, indeed it's my privilege, to go out and discover the world for myself.

I wanted to be a musician, either a guitarist or a drummer. I guess my dreams were in the entertainment industry, and I landed somewhere along there.

I don't view myself as a musician anymore - I view myself as a human being that functions as a musician when I'm functioning as a musician, but that's not 24 hours a day. That's really opened me up to even more perspectives because now I look at music, not from the standpoint of being a musician, but from the standpoint of being a human being.

Richard Strauss--Old Home Week in Gomorrah