Musician Quotes

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door.

Being a musician is one of the more valid art forms.

I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.

I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.

If you are a musician and you don't show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people will rip you off. They will sweet talk you into anything.

I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff.

Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with a lot of sort of long-term commitments and obligations.

'Cause I felt I didn't have anything else to prove as a musician... and boy was I wrong about that one.

I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked.

I think one of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.

Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed.

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

As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.

I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.

I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

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.

Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.

If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.