Musician Quotes

• When I think of my own struggles as a musician, I'm most proud of the chances I took. My style not only allowed for the possibility of failure, it practically ensured it. But this approach gave me confidence.

  

  Derrick Bostrom Meat Puppets
  • Style
  • Chances
  • Struggles

• Since I started as a comic person then became a musician to me it was interesting because I have this really great, interesting fanbase that's really smart and energetic and uh how could I steer them towards a medium that shaped who I was? You know, steer them toward comics. That was really the goal, to bring a lot of readers cuz they were reading a lot of comics but most of them hadn't been reading American comics, they'd be reading manga sitting on the floor of a Barnes and Noble.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Goal
  • Started
  • Comic

• I'm not a musician, I just play bass.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Play
  • Musician
  • Bass

• I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Work
  • Always
  • Shocks

• The ability for a woman to orally satisfy somebody in a rock band, that's important to a rock 'n' roll musician.

  

  Chad Kroeger Nickelback
  • Ability
  • Musician
  • Rock Band

• 'Master Blaster,' by Stevie Wonder, is up-tempo and fun, like Stevie himself. Stevie's always making jokes; he really knows how to put people at ease. He's one of my inspirations, as a musician and a person.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Fun
  • Wonder
  • Inspiration

• I listen to other guitar players, yeah. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the future and it is going some places. There are some musicians who are really putting out a good vibe with new theories. I try and keep up.

  

  George Benson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• I would love to interview Dave Grohl. I just think he's an amazing musician, and I grew up listening to Nirvana, so I have so many questions about that.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Think
  • Amazing
  • Musician

• I want to be treated like a musician.

  

  Halsey
  • Want
  • Like
  • Musician

• At a certain age I just stopped arguing. I realized that there was no way my father could see, because for him to approve of what I was doing, he would have to have some belief in me as a musician.

  

  George Michael
  • Musician
  • Arguing
  • My Father

• I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Power
  • Artist
  • Sounds

• Taylor is a musician who does things under her own name and tells her own stories-her songs and her albums are her.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Stories
  • Songs
  • Albums

• Most people you'd tell "I'm gonna be a musician," they'd say, "you're crazy, you're gonna starve, you're gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you'll never make it, there's too much competition, it's a terrible business," etc. But my chorus teacher in high school said, "you've got what it takes to be a really good professional musician, you should consider it." That was an epiphany for me. So I thought, well, maybe I can help somebody, too.

  

  Billy Joel
  • People
  • Good
  • School

• Music and visual performance have to influence each other. Designers and musicians have to be the nexus of all things pop culture, so I think about designers when I'm making music.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Culture

• In my imaginary utopian world there would be a greater allegiance between music writers and musicians.

  

  Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
  • World
  • Imaginary
  • Utopian

• The melody is the most important thing that must stay in the minds of the people who listen to you. No matter how many notes you play, you can't let them forget what the song is.

  

  George Benson
  • People
  • Important
  • Mind

• I'm not that type of musician where I can sit down at the piano and work out a song; I actually really enjoy that process of sitting with somebody and having nothing and then suddenly something starts appearing. You struggle with it, and then suddenly a song starts to appear. Then, you've got to try and muscle it - there's that word again - into something and you do. You tussle with it and play with it and roll around with it and suddenly, magically, something appears.

  

  Dave Gahan Depeche Mode
  • Song
  • Process
  • Musician

• You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville.

  

  Richie Sambora Bon Jovi
  • Actors
  • Hollywood
  • Nashville

• I feel like I'm struggling now, and nearly every musician I know feels that way - even the most successful ones. I realize that I'm very lucky, but I still feel like I could be doing so much better.

  

  Eleanor Friedberger
  • Successful
  • Lucky
  • Struggling

• I've always felt that I inherited an old soul, and I've tried to live my life with equality and balance. I do not, nor have I ever, considered myself anything any more or any less than a musician, and I cringe at the term 'rock star'. I suppose I'd like to be known as more than a hard rock guitarist. That was my purpose and ambition twenty years ago and there's been a lot of growth since.

  

  Vivian Campbell Def Leppard
  • Soul
  • Purpose
  • Balance

• I dream of a collaboration that will become so complete that, often, the poet will think as musician and the musician as poet, so that the work resulting from this union will not be the random conclusion of a series of approximations and concessions, but the harmonious synthesis of two aspects of the same thought.

  

  Arthur Honegger
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Poet

• I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond all doubt that we are master musicians of our instruments. Now what we have to do is employ our skill to tell the dramatic story of our people and what we've been through.

  

  Max Roach
  • People
  • Music
  • Doubt

• Bill Justis was a saxophone player, good musician, arranger, and friend of mine who had a big hit called Raunchy.

  

  Ray Stevens
  • Musician
  • Saxophone

• Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.

  

  Norman Granz
  • Leader
  • Sound
  • Wells

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