Musician Quotes

I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

Slash Guns N' Roses
I think that-that anyone, the painter, the musician, the writer works in a-a kind of an-an insane fury. He's demon-driven. He can get up feeling rotten, with a hangover, or with-with actual pain, and-and if he gets to work, the first thing he knows, he don't remember that pain, that hangover-he's too busy.

William Faulkner

My dad was a musician, played on the road and played all of his life. And I grew up in a musical family. I heard it all. I mean, I got accustomed to listening to Roy Acuff and all the old guys. It was really cool for me growing up in a family like that.

Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Life
- Dad
- Musician
Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory; practice must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule; and you may as well hope to make a good painter, or musician, extempore, by a lecture and instruction in the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or a strict reasoner, by a set of rules, showing him wherein right reasoning consists.

John Locke Nazareth
- Habit
- Memory
- Rules
Being a rock musician is already like ego-tripping hardcore. You're self-consumed, and you're always thinking. It's really easy to say, "I'm going to write a song about this situation, and when I'm done, everyone will care." To everybody else, that's ego-tripping.

Ryan Adams
- Writing
- Song
- Care
It was a natural thing for me to go become a musician, and then to start writing music. I don't even really remember making a decision to go into music, it was just there for me, always. If I weren't making a living at it, I'd still be writing music.

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

Charlemagne Palestine
- Never
- Bored
- Wanderer
If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.

Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama
- Artist
- Musician