Musician Quotes
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Musicians have to do what they do and express it musically. All the blah blah blah will get lost in the dialogue.
Carlos Alomar
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I like to be a musician and also just be a very regular person and blend in. I think these people that are famous for being famous are probably miserable because everything is based on how well they're doing in social media and so forth.
Nick Hexum
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It might be something as simple as saying the right word to the right person at the right time-and that could change the course of history. You never really know. But the whole thing is to work at the process of being in sync with the universe, so that everything will align at the proper time so that you can deliver that which is your life mission. And that's why we're here as individuals. And then there's our contribution to the collective. It makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?
Herbie Hancock
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To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.
David Bowie
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Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.
Sean Lennon
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I've been a musician my whole life. I'm really enjoying making music again.
Michael Chiklis
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I'm a musician. Anything I've done as an actor has come from that.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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The first time I played in front of a live audience, I realised I wanted to be a musician. I was about four years old and had always liked music.
Lewis Capaldi
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Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.
Celia Thaxter
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What is the source of power of musicians who are financially browbeaten, most of whom work for minimum wage or less? Musicians who cannot even afford to buy tickets to operas or concerts in which they themselves perform?
Itay Talgam
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I want people to hear musicians like Joe Cuba. He has done things to whole masses of Puerto Rican people. The music is fantastic and important.
David Bowie
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I guess if you’re a musician the way you think and feel is eventually going to come out of you. I like so many styles of music that it just made sense to try to synthesize all of them.
Southside Johnny
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The music is not part of this planet in a sense that the spirit of it is about happiness. Most musicians play earth things about what they know, but I found out that they are mostly unhappy and frustrated, and that creeps over into their music.
Sun Ra
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If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.
Shinichi Suzuki
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Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.
Tommy Chong
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The reason I decided to become a musician is because it seemed better then getting a job at the time, when I was 10.
Nigel Pulsford Bush
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I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.
Ray LaMontagne
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I know a lot of actors who started out as musicians and have very successful careers as actors, but most people don't know them as musicians.
Richard Lewis Springthorpe
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There is something embarrassing about asking for money, but if I hadn't done that, I would have not continued to be a professional musician.
Ezra Furman
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Being in a rock n' roll group, or being a musician, it is in conflict in some serious cultural ways with being an observant Jew, but in a conceptual way, for me, they go together real well.
Ezra Furman
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Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.
Herbie Hancock
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Of course, it's not the technique that makes the music; it's the sensitivity of the musician and his ability to be able to fuse his life with the rhythm of the times. This is the essence of music.
Herbie Hancock
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I struggle every day with trying to be a better dad, a better husband, better musician, better artist. It consumes me, and I don't see an end in sight.
Harry Connick, Jr.