Musician Quotes
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When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
Billy Joel
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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
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When I was seven years old I played the flute, then by 11 I quit being a musician and got into Djing.
Jonas Blue
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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
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The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.
Erykah Badu
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My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a deal for the sake of other members of my group when I shouldn't have, because I was right in the end.
Ziggy Marley
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When I like a musician I want to see a picture or a video of them.
EMA
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Like a musician expresses himself through music and a writer's expression is in his writings, cooking is my mode of expression.
Ranveer Brar
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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
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It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.
Robert Wyatt
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I'm a great songwriter, but I'm not the most talented musician.
Noel Gallagher Oasis
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If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer?
Shawn Fanning
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I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.
Cassandra Wilson
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It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.
Billy Joel
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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
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When you're a musician and you come from a singing background, specifically one that focused a lot on a cappella music as I have, it's just a real joy to be around so many talented people and talented groups who have a passion for what they do.
Nick Lachey
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The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.
Louis Armstrong
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I just hope that I'll stay around musically for as long as I can. I love to think that I will still be satisfying myself and other people as a musician until the day I die.
George Michael
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Music to me is something that I didn't choose; it was a necessity. I grew up with music, my father is a musician. It makes me happy; it makes people happy.
Ingrid Michaelson
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Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food
Steve Albini Big Black
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A devastating culmination of the elegant and the funky, a really sensational musician with enormous depth.
Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
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I didn't decide to become a musician until the age of 15, which is quite late.
Evelyn Glennie
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Well the artists that inspire me were, first of all I would say Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, John Holt, Alton Ellis, Errol Dunkley, Delroy Wilson and Dennis Brown you know. They have unique voice and sweet melody and you know, good lyrics those time yeh. The music was very nice in that time still seen, because you find that even the musical part, the musicians concentrate more on the melody than everything, more than how they concentrate on the money that time you Know
Gregory Isaacs
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In fact, many musicians are the happiest when the artist and audience re-interpret or re-imagine the content of the songs.
John Baizley Baroness