Musician Quotes - Page 7

We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.

To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.

My mom really wanted me to be a musician so she gave me a guitar for my fifth birthday, but I didn't start playing till I was seven.

Metal musicians say dumb things sometimes.

To do an extreme metal record is something that is well within my capacity as a musician to write stuff out of the box, write stuff that's probably more extreme than the band I'm in at the present time, and it's something that needs to come out of me one way or another.

I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.

Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business.

I have a buddy of mine who's a musician, and I play guitar and sing quite a bit with him.

A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with his parents or spouse or neighbors. He's above all a human being . . . the true artform is being a human being.

Only by pairing knowledge with inspiration will art evolve. Without these conditions any musician will remain a flawed artist, if one may speak of an artist at all.

Oh, I'm a martyr to music.

At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.

A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught

I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing.

It's hard to separate art from artists so transgender musicians will never be mainstream until transpeople are looked at as notable as maybe redheads.

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Music itself is not going to let you down.

Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.

When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of his theme, I am delighted beyond measure: and I compare the man and his words, and note the harmony and correspondence of them. And such an one I deem to be the true musician, having in himself a fairer harmony than that of the lyre.

Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.

He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz.

I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.

Just look at the Old Testament. They didn't go out with the army first. They sent the musicians out.

I don't wave a flag for anything. I'm a musician.

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