Musician Quotes - Page 31

We're all different. Some people are musicians, some people are actors, some people are agents and some people are accountants... We're all different.

When you're a musician and you release an album, you have to accept the criticism - and I accept it! But it's something I'll never get used to.

I don't hate being compared with female musicians. I don't mind that at all. I have no problem with seeing connections between women's work.

I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman.

I don't know where I would be without music. Even if I wasn't a musician, I think music is God. In a lot of ways, it's my saving grave. It's been my religion since I was a little kid.

I always want to set myself a challenge by doing something no-one would expect me to do! But, having said that, I don't feel as a musician you can steer too far away from what you normally do.

When you commit to being a musician, I don't think you're really sure or care about when you're going to pay the bills. I don't think you care about that as much as you care about playing music.

I have a music career as well, so I was going to either be an actress or a musician. Then, I did both. But, I was always going to do something creative.

I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.

It's interesting, because as a musician, I don't feel like I need to be on the top of the pop charts.

To me, music and fashion are the same thing. A good designer is the same as an incredible musician, and the two go hand in hand.

It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.

I can feel my father's spirit within me. I can feel similarities within us from the artistic perspective from being a musician. We have a lot of similarities.

When I was a kid I wanted to be a musician. I used to play the trumpet. I practiced all the time, but I got braces and I couldn't play it anymore, so I had all of this free time.

I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music.

My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.

Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes.

As a musician I'm kind of nomadic, Waldo-like. I show up in different places, and I'm witness to unbelievable things.

To say that the Afro American created jazz doesn't mean anything bad about Anglo Americans, and I always teach my younger jazz musicians that at this point the entirety of the American tradition is your heritage, and you need to know it.

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

The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did.

When I did the Abyssinian mass, I went through the whole history of the church music and the gospel music, even with the Anglo American hymns, the Afro American hymns, the spirituals and how it developed, up to Thomas Dorsey and the Dixie Hummingbirds, going through the history of the music, jazz musicians.

The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel.

I would advise all young musicians to not only experience and play chamber music, but to go to operas, speak to the singers, to explore and expand your horizons.

It was like a musician playing notes. Everything we trained worked.