Musician Quotes

• It is not a lack of spiritual experience that leads to failure, but a lack of working to keep our eyes focused and on the right goal. At least once a week examine yourself before God to see if your life is measuring up to the standard He has for you. Paul was like a musician who gives no thought to audience approval, if he can only catch a look of approval from his Conductor.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• I met my manager when I was 17, when I didn't have enough money to buy a set of guitar strings. There are not very many people who are looking out for you and being in business with you when you're at that stage. And it's not in my nature to think that success as a musician makes you any different from anybody else.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Money
  • Guitar
  • Manager

• I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • People
  • Appreciate
  • Awards

• As a musician usually music is your way out.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Music
  • Way
  • Musician

• This blend of musicians on '90 Millas' is historically significant on a number of levels. This is the first and quite possibly the last time that all of these legendary artists will play together on one CD.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Time
  • Together
  • Artist

• I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Father
  • Friend

• 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.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Father
  • Spirit
  • Perspective

• I have a musician friend who, after reading Mountains, told me, "When I read the book, I wanted to quit music altogether and become a doctor." I told him, "Do you really think you can be a better doctor than you are a musician? Nobody needs you as a lousy doctor. Just be the one-of-a-kind, brilliant musician you are, and divert your success somehow to benefit the poor." You can achieve so much more this way.

  

  Régine Alexandra Chassagne Arcade Fire
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Reading

• I am a musician who also does love to explore the world in many ways, so my approaching with my songs, videos, and haikus is: 'Make It Real.'

  

  Flula Borg
  • World
  • Real
  • Explore

• So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.

  

  Santi White
  • Think
  • Artist
  • Musician

• I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Kind
  • Musician

• I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Myself
  • Artist
  • Musician

• My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Learn

• I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Artist
  • Person
  • Regret

• I was an apprentice television engineer when I decided to pack it up and go full-time, much to my father's disgust. But I'm still interested and I like messing about with TV. I can't deny it ... TV engineering was the job I'd wanted at the time, and I got what I wanted. But in the long-term it would have been second best to being a musician.

  

  Peter William Ham Badfinger
  • Long
  • Father
  • Term

• I was approached by Oxfam to go to Mali as their ambassador and get involved in their various initiatives out there. But I felt that was missing the point of using me, a musician.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Me
  • Missing
  • Point

• I love the life of a musician but I live the life of a bodybuilder.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Life
  • Live
  • Bodybuilder

• I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Life
  • World
  • True

• I can't get very excited about a musician who can do Art Tatum because I've got the Art Tatum records. I want to hear him take that and do something that hasn't been done. And there's enough of that going around that keeps the music very exciting. There's so many great young players coming out. I think we're in some kind of renaissance, especially in the rhythm section. I mean the musicians on drums and bass and guitar are really trying to figure out different ways to bring a rhythm section together.

  

  Gary Giddins
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Together

• If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. … I cannot tell if I would have done any creative work of importance in music, but I do know that I get most joy in life out of my violin.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Importance

• Growing around great musicians, you just can't help it. I identified with it immediately. It was something that was so natural to me that when I started singing, it was almost like speaking.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Great
  • Help
  • Growing

• I feel like that's what's going to be most respected at the end of the day, that I'm able to do so many different things and become less of a rapper and just more as a musician.

  

  Juice Wrld
  • Different
  • Day
  • End

• I think a lot of actors, comedians, musicians, artists are drawn to this world, because you're allowed to excavate whatever it is that you're struggling with, and hopefully turn it into art.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Artist

• Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the asronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Time
  • Beginning
  • Poet

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