Musician Quotes
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I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians.
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I guess a certain contingent of the musicians in London at the beginning of the '70s were fed up with denim and the hippies. And I think we kind of wanted to go somewhere else.
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If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.
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Wyclef is a musician that tried to unite as many musicians at once as possible. I am trying to be successful at that. The greatest challenge is that, I just got arrested for protesting in NYC for cutting the school budgets... And I think that it's important to stand up. Schools are important.
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Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.
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I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.
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I have musician friends who play too much golf, and they're not as good at music anymore.
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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.
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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.
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Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.
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A musician knows hit material. It has to feel right. Everything has to feel in place. It fulfills you and it makes you feel good. You know it when you hear it.
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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.
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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.
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I'm a musician. Anything I've done as an actor has come from that.
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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.
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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.
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Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.
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Howie Epstein was a kind, patient, and extremely talented musician. He took two years out of his life and dedicated his undivided attention to the making of two of my records. Those records changed my life thanks to Howie.
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I am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being.
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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?
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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.
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I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.
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Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.
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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.
