Top 100 Music Musician Quotes
#1. I have a music career as well, so I was going to either be an actress or a musician. Then, I did both. But, I was always going to do something creative.
Zooey Deschanel
#2. My wife, Gayle, is a wonderful musician and singer. We share music, so it's a deep bond.
Chick Corea
#3. When I write stuff that's provocative, I want people to think about that, too. I'm in between a pop musician and an artist in that way. I want people to be part of the music as they listen, but I also want them to think: What was that?
Jenny Hval
#4. Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums.
Ronald Perelman
#5. I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.
Criss Jami
#6. When you commit to being a musician, I don't think you're really sure or care about when you're going to pay the bills. I don't think you care about that as much as you care about playing music.
Adam Levine
#7. The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians ... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the Gypsies.
Franz Liszt
#8. I'm not just a singer of funny songs; I am basically, first and foremost, a musician. I'm always recording all styles of music.
Ray Stevens
#10. I was very drawn to music of all types, from Beethoven to Jimi Hendrix. There were musicians and composers who obviously were expressing a vision that was beyond the mundane.
Frederick Lenz
#12. It's rare that I ever meet a musician who doesn't agree that music is a language. But it's very rare to meet a musician that really treats it like one.
Victor Wooten
#13. It's a very weird job to have as a musician, because you spend long periods of time alone and then you have to go work with people for a long period of time and present your music after you've been making it by yourself. It's a very drastic phase.
Angel Deradoorian
#14. Since the music industry cracked and fell apart, gasping for the cash flow it had come to expect, much re-thinking has been the order of the day. It is a fine time to be a musician. Like walking through Sodom and Gomorrah while it is still smoking, on your way to the next gig.
Jane Siberry
#15. She was like a musician who may be an odious vulgarian in ordinary life, devoid of tact and taste; but who will hear a false note in music with diabolical accuracy of judgment.
Anonymous
#17. I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.
Muddy Waters
#18. My husband, Gabriele, is a musician, and I love music, so you can bet it's a really important part of our home entertaining repertoire, even if it means Gabriele making a really good playlist for a dinner party.
Debi Mazar
#19. The musician has the most brothers, and the dancer the most sisters.
Alexandra Chauran
#20. The musician and the listener.
If this is love between two strangers watching each other from afar, that rough, burning moment when you rush in and kiss is the show.
Tablo
#21. I download music just like anybody else, but it's a weird relationship when you're a musician.
Tim Hecker
#22. As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
Sam Palladio
#23. I think if you're a painter, you paint; if you're a golfer, you golf; if you're a fisherman, you fish; if you're a musician, you play music.
Randy Bachman
#24. Music is like having a conversation. All musicians inspire each other, and they're all geared to play something that matters.
Vince Gill
#25. I have to say that Adam Levine is truly a daring young man to go on Twitter to bash Fox News. He's so rebellious, so subversive. I mean, for a musician, seriously, could you find a more predictable stance than that? He's as edgy as a hacky sack, which also describes his music.
Greg Gutfeld
#26. I love when people are coming up and they're working hard and you can see that they're really focused on the process to their music. I really dig that. As a musician, it's nice to see people who really care about the process.
Amos Lee
#27. My interactions with musicians have been simply that: interactions with musicians. Issues of gender, or anything else beyond the music-making, have in my experience played no role in whether or not a musician has been able to articulate my intentions as a composer.
Michael Hersch
#28. An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.
Jaron Lanier
#29. I sometimes listen to music to get into some place that I need to get. I don't think it's because I have a musician as a father that I do this - most actors do.
Mickey Sumner
#30. I like to read. I've become obsessed with fiction. And it's too bad: I'm a musician many people love and I myself am not part of the music scene.
Glenn Branca
#31. I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn't especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my way back to being interested in music through computers.
Eric Avery
#32. From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.
John Philip Sousa
#33. I liked rock music going back to the '60s, but I never ever had any desire to be a rock musician and when I started doing a band it was experimental music.
Glenn Branca
#34. I was raised a musician and I played classic music, violin, in orchestras and music comedy theaters, I have music running around in my head all the time, and if I hear music that's too interesting, I have to pay attention to it.
Larry Wall
#35. The concern of the musician is to play the music. It is there demanding to be given sound to.
Robert Fripp
#36. I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.
Iggy Pop
#37. I don't just strictly sample. I build. I'm a musician: I play piano and drums, I read notes, I write music.
AraabMuzik
#38. Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. That's an important part of being a successful musician. It's a good thing, I guess.
Ezra Koenig
#39. A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.
William Blake
#40. You're a musician and you live and die by people responding to your music. It's a business just like anything else and if people don't like your music, that's kind of your problem.
Marc Martel
#41. I was going to be a musician, no matter what it took. I supported myself with blue-collared jobs so I could write music and be in a band and play shows. I even got into an underground art scene. I was going to do whatever.
Chris Cornell
#42. Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician
Wynton Marsalis
#43. As a musician, I know that it'll take time for me to get to the ranks of an established artiste. Nevertheless, I'm very happy that people are appreciating my music.
Priyanka Chopra
#44. I've never been really interested in music, classical or otherwise, where the craft is more important than the result. I realized quickly that I'd never be a technical electronic musician.
Anna Meredith
#45. At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.
Daniel Ek
#46. I still look to music to heal and bind; I still think the musician can be a trusted object offering his fellow-man solace but also a reminder of human excellence.
Yehudi Menuhin
#47. The only dreams that matter are the ones you have when you're awake.
John O'Callaghan
#48. I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.
Gary Numan
#49. If I wasn't acting, I'd try and be a footballer. I wouldn't be a musician because I can't write my own music. Realistically, I'd probably do something with dogs, like a vet or something. I love animals.
Jamie Blackley
#50. I'm a keen musician. Me and my mates have a great times jamming and recording stuff. We have a great band behind us and have turned my nursery-rhyme songs into quite credible pieces of music.
Tom Felton
#53. I would like for people to not be stuck by the rules of what is expected of a classical musician. If you really want to do something different, don't be afraid to do so. Think of music itself and not the rules or expectations of people.
Charlie Albright
#54. 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.
Beck
#55. Verbal communication about music is impossible except among musicians.
Virgil Thomson
#56. People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. I got my first piano, was playing recitals at 8, 10 I picked up a guitar, 12 I picked up my first Pearl Master drum set. I was an artist before I was an 'artist.'
Mitchel Musso
#57. I can honestly say my music is always going to be greater than my business side. Because I'm naturally a musician. And I don't have to get paid, I don't even have to have businesses. Business is business. And music is life.
Lil' Wayne
#58. When I hear a great musician, I can feel his life inside the music.
John McLaughlin
#60. I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.
K'naan
#61. I've been a musician since childhood, and music is my first love. I love it.
Steven Seagal
#62. It's nearly redundant to enumerate the reasons The Beatles are important. There are probably different reasons why The Beatles are important to a musician like myself and to the millions of Beatles fans who just enjoy listening to the music.
Todd Rundgren
#63. I guess in this culture of ever-shortening attention spans, it's good if a song can lift us out of the madness, even if only for a few minutes.
Peter Bradley Adams
#64. You get a lot of who you are as a musician across through the music you write. If you're writing your own music, then it's important to be really honest.
Harry Styles
#65. Every musician, their goal in life is to play music that people love, and I've accomplished my goal. I was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and left that chapter of my life and those people in the past. Good and bad, I've loved and am thankful for that chapter.
Steven Adler
#66. My father's nephew was the blues musician, Lowell Fulson. Every time he came around, he had a pretty car, a beautiful woman and a slick sharkskin suit. Believe it or not, that's how I decided I wanted to get into music.
Charlie Wilson
#67. I'm a self-taught musician so how I read music is kind of very weak and I kind of read my own version of tablature, I write my own crappy reminders on what I'm playing.
Jason Mraz
#69. The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience.
Sir Arthur Sullivan
#70. If you are a musician who has released albums, it would perhaps be morbidly interesting to know how much you would be owed if everyone who now has your music had actually bought your record.
Henry Rollins
#71. While not a musician, my father was a music agent for years before becoming pop culture icon Famous Amos.
Shawn Amos
#72. How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score, tell just how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes over the massed strings will sound?
Daniel Dennett
#73. First, I think of myself as a brand, a businesswoman. Musician is something I just do because it's my passion - I love it and it's something I do for fun. I love music and I love to make people dance.
Paris Hilton
#74. While I am not a musician, I love music. I have over 15,000 songs on my iPod. Everything from hard core rap to the soundtrack from the original 'Cinderella.'
Lee Daniels
#75. If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
Albert Einstein
#76. I know a lot of great musicians that don't know they're even great, because mangers try and make them feel belittled like they're not worth a crap.
Jim "Dandy" Mangrum
#77. Music, in all of its variations and venues, is the world's oldest social network.
Richard J. Alley
#78. I'd been trained as a classical musician, but also as a pop musician. My teacher made sure that everything was available.
Jeanine Tesori
#79. The saxophone does not speak that language. The saxophone speaks the language of the underground, the jaded melancholy of the half-light - grimy and sexy and sweaty and hard. It is the language of orphans and bastards and whores.
Eleanor Catton
#80. God is the Supreme Musician. It is He who is playing with us, on us and in us. We cannot separate God from His music. The universal Consciousness is constantly being played by the Supreme Himself, and is constantly growing into the Supreme Music.
Sri Chinmoy
#81. I am not immune to the lure of a signed record, flier or set list. The fact that your music heroes potentially had, in their own hands, the record you now have in yours is kind of cool. When the musician has departed, it can give the thing a unique power.
Henry Rollins
#82. When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.
Flea
#83. Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business.
John Perry Barlow
#84. But I cannot bring myself to believe that I was intended for a musician, because it seems so small a business in comparison with other things which, it seems to me, I might do. Question here: 'What is the province of music in the economy of the world?'
Sidney Lanier
#85. The greatest thing about doing this movie was that Chris and I both were involved in folk music in the '60s. I had a group, but I don't think it was at the same level as Chris, because he's an amazing musician.
Eugene Levy
#86. And if the day I die they ask me just how heaven was, I'll be glad I spent it with you.
Brian Logan Dales
#87. If you're going to be a musician's girlfriend, you have to know that your man will always love his bandmates in a way you can't even touch, because they are the guys who help him create music. You can only help him create a living human being, with your dumb uterus.
Julie Klausner
#88. I decided that in order to become a big famous rock star, I would need to write my very own songs instead of wasting my time learning other peoples music too much. It may act as an obstruction in developing your very own personal style.
Kurt Cobain
#90. Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.
Richard Wagner
#91. Any saxophone player will have those influences come through in their music in a very different way. I can listen to the same 10 sax players as someone else for my entire life, and we'll both play completely differently. That's the beauty of being a musician.
Kenny G
#92. I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician.
Johnny Winter
#93. I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
Jerry Garcia
#94. It's crazy to think of myself as a musician. It's ridiculous that I get to do it, and I don't necessarily mean music. Getting to do something you really enjoy as a job is an incredible privilege, I think. I still don't really feel like a musician outside of the actual music.
Ben Rector
#95. A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught
Buddy Rich
#96. Music speaks from spirit to spirit and in that sense you could call it a true spiritual language.
John McLaughlin
#97. When you play music you discover a part of yourself that you never knew existed.
Bill Evans
#98. I couldn't concentrate on music. So I made the choice to give up my career as a musician in the frontline to deal with the business.
Robert Fripp
#99. I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness.
Ornette Coleman
#100. I am a musician. I didn't know I would be so when I was young. I do know that I have always heard music in my head that I wasn't hearing somewhere else and I 'needed' this music. And obedient to the laws of nature, I created into this vacuum.
Jane Siberry
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