Musician Quotes

• I'm more encouraged by the saplings: new music groups, tiny new venues, entrepreneurial musician-composers who aren't waiting to be discovered but are instead building their own Establishment.

  

  David Edelstein
  • Waiting
  • Building
  • Composer

• I was 16 when we made the first song. We've been touring for half a decade together and we've had quite a bit of time spent learning our craft. You improve as a song writer and as a musician over time.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Together
  • Song
  • Musician

• If it weren't for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Musician
  • The Beatles

• I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated.

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
  • Fans
  • Heard
  • Underrated

• As the musician straineth his strings, and yet he breaketh none of them, but maketh thereby a sweeter melody and better concord; so God, through affliction makes His own better unto the fruition and enjoying of the life to come.

  Daniel Cawdry
  • Enjoy
  • Melody
  • Trials

• I am not immune to the lure of a signed record, flier or set list. The fact that your music heroes potentially had, in their own hands, the record you now have in yours is kind of cool. When the musician has departed, it can give the thing a unique power.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Giving
  • Unique
  • Hero

• Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Writing
  • Musician
  • Screenplays

• I think that if a real princess was lost in this modern world and she could be whatever she wanted, she would be a musician,' Blanche said slowly. 'A violinist, or a harpist. That would be the only place where she could find solace for her lost kingdom.

  

  Regina Doman
  • Modern
  • Princess
  • Kingdom

• The true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre... for he truly has in his own life a harmony of words and deeds arranged in the Dorian mode. Such a one makes me joyous with the sound of his voice, so eager am I in drinking in his words.

  

  Plato
  • Voice
  • Musician
  • Harmony

• As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

  

  Bono U2
  • Believe
  • Ways
  • Point Of View

• To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Silence
  • Canvas
  • Songwriter

• The older I get, the more I realize I'm becoming people's role models and that's freaky to me. That's not what you intend to do when you set out to be a musician, to be a little 14-year-old's role model.

  

  Ingrid Michaelson
  • People
  • Realizing
  • Becoming

• Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Natural
  • Brilliant
  • Drummer

• I've been grinding at music for over a decade now. Since I was 18, I decided that this is what I wanted to do. It's not an easy thing. When you start getting 25, 26, people are like, 'Oh you're a musician huh? That's what you're gonna do? When are you going to get a real job?' I never gave up.

  

  Nick Fradiani
  • Musician
  • Gave Up
  • Real Job

• There won't ever be a mass-market record industry again, and that's fine with me because that industry didn't operate for the benefit of the musicians or the audience, the only classes of people I care about.

  

  Steve Albini Big Black
  • People
  • Care
  • Musician

• Ike's problem was that he was a musician that always wanted to be a star; and was a star, locally, but never internationally... so he then changed the name to Ike and changed my name to Tina because if I ran away, Tina was his name. It was patented as you call it.

  

  Tina Turner
  • Problem
  • Changed
  • Musician

• I didn't decide to become a musician until the age of 15, which is quite late.

  

  Evelyn Glennie
  • Musician
  • Decide

• I don't think you can learn to be a complete musician. That has to come from within, and it entails a lot of sacrifice.

  

  Yngwie Johan Malmsteen Alcatrazz
  • Thinking
  • Sacrifice
  • Musician

• I have been a musician for a long time as you reminded me earlier, haha. I have a lot of influences and experiences. Every time I start to play it’s a total synthesis of everything I have ever heard or played. There are three musicians that have influenced me more than anyone else, Herbie Hancock, Frank Zappa and Jimi Hendrix

  

  Roger O'Donnell The Cure
  • Influence
  • Musician
  • Experiences

• I started out as a musician, and I ended up as a cartoon.

  

  Peter Frampton
  • Musician
  • Started
  • Cartoon

• Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk about other people's music.

  

  Michael Azerrad
  • People
  • Musician

• The more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become.

  

  Dan Bejar
  • Become
  • Singers
  • Abandon

• A musician must lift up the souls of the listeners, and take them towards space.

  

  Nikhil Banerjee
  • Soul
  • Musician
  • Listeners

• We talked a lot with the musician. And for now there are few options, and I give him few weeks to come and surprise me with something. I don't want to start and say, okay here is what I want. Because maybe he has an idea that is better than mine.

  

  Luc Besson
  • Idea
  • Musician
  • Options

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