Musician Quotes

• I thought that you had to work, work, work and try to be the best musician you could, and that's the only way you could make it. Then it turns out, halfway through the scene, they change the rules on you!

  

  Steve Lukather Toto
  • Work
  • Rules
  • Scene

• Combing my hair doesn't make me a better musician.

  

  Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
  • Hair
  • Musician

• It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Song
  • Jazz
  • Moved

• The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • World
  • Good
  • Music

• My songs speak for themselves. The musicians who play on them and the way they sound and where they were recorded and the way they were recorded is the old Nashville way ... they sound as country or more country than a lot of things that are on country radio.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Music
  • Country
  • Song

• The Internet has definitely opened doors and leveled the playing field for musicians.

  

  Vivian Campbell Def Leppard
  • Internet
  • Doors
  • Fields

• I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf.

  

  Evelyn Glennie
  • Musician
  • Deaf

• My mom really wanted me to be a musician so she gave me a guitar for my fifth birthday, but I didn't start playing till I was seven.

  

  Yngwie Johan Malmsteen Alcatrazz
  • Mom
  • Wanted
  • Guitar

• Regardless of the method, the act of worship must be in spirit and truth-from our rational consciousness and consistent with the rest of our lives (see John 4:24). We don't have to be great singers or musicians to worship God. But we do need to be in a personal relationship with Him and live with the truth of His greatness reflecting through all we are becoming and all we do.

  

  Darlene Zschech
  • Greatness
  • Consciousness
  • Worship

• When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Way
  • Musician
  • Profit

• Martin's the songwriter, Alan's the good musician, Dave's the vocalist... and I bum around.

  

  Andy Fletcher Depeche Mode
  • Musician
  • Songwriter
  • Vocalist

• I knew that I was going to have a life as a musician, because I always felt the pull. I don't remember ever having to make a choice.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • Remember
  • Choices
  • Felt

• When you write a song you're more or less saying, "This is everyone. I think this is everyone." It doesn't necessarily have to be this thing where I go out and I'm like candy-striping, or becoming a therapist or something. I think that maybe, maybe I'm supposed to be a musician, because of that fact.

  

  Anthony Green Circa Survive
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Song

• I'm a musician and I'm really blessed, because in my life if I can hold the sticks, I can play.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Life
  • Play
  • Blessed

• Kenny Burrell is a great musician and his music has helped to make me what I am today.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Great
  • Music
  • Today

• It can be difficult to mediate a compromise between what I have in my head and what the musician has in mind, which is often 180° different when it comes to the finished product, so it requires that element of trust from somewhere. The point I make to them is "You've seen what I do, so just trust me and we will come up with something exciting."

  

  John Baizley Baroness
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Compromise

• My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.

  

  Babatunde Adebimpe
  • Father
  • Musician
  • Sides

• I don't view myself as a musician anymore - I view myself as a human being that functions as a musician when I'm functioning as a musician, but that's not 24 hours a day. That's really opened me up to even more perspectives because now I look at music, not from the standpoint of being a musician, but from the standpoint of being a human being.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Perspective
  • Musician
  • Hours

• 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

• Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician

  

  Wynton Marsalis
  • Musician
  • Listeners

• It's a scary question for a musician or songwriter today - what does the future hold? It is a strange time in the music business too; it feels like we are all in some kind of transitional period, stuck between old technology and new.

  

  Dean Wareham
  • Time
  • Music
  • Business

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

  

  Charlemagne Palestine
  • Never
  • Bored
  • Wanderer

• The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.

  

  Louis Armstrong
  • Important
  • Memory
  • Musician

• She has her own glamour, Willy lad. All poets do, all the bards and artists, all the musicians who truly take the music into their own hearts. They all straddle the border of Faerie, and they see into both worlds. Not dependably into either, perhaps, but that uncertainty keeps them honest and at a distance.

  

  Emma Bull
  • World
  • Music
  • Heart

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