Quotes About Being A Jazz Musician

#1. I'm not a jazz artist. Don't get me wrong now, it's all music to me. I just played music and if it's likeable, someone liked the sound, then fine, but I'm not interested in being a jazz musician. I don't consider myself a jazz musician. I don't have anything to do with that word.

Pharoah Sanders

#2. Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!

Toots Thielemans

#3. The age of 18 seemed the right time to try something different in my life. Moving to the U.K. was a risk, and I was never confident that I could ever make a full-time living being a musician, but I had to try. Initially, I worked as a jazz musician in pubs or with bands.

Manfred Mann

#4. All small children are weathermen.

Amie Ryan

#5. I view real estate as the most intriguing opportunity that I've seen in my business lifetime.

Richard Rainwater

#6. Love can be found mainly amongst stars

Will Advise

#7. I'd have no trouble being the barbecue kingpin of America. I'd just add it to all the other things I am: jazz musician, carpenter, architect, engineer and revolutionary.

Bobby Seale

#8. But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.

Amy Ray

#9. I'm not a religious person, but I prefer God to money.

Bruce Robinson

#10. I take complete and sole responsibility for my present situation.

Brad Delp

#11. Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become ...

Robert Thurman

#12. You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings.

Glen Hansard

#13. I have no illusions about being a genius musician. I pride myself on being a soldier, a warrior for jazz. I trained a lot of young people, and I've learned my lessons well. I'd like to keep the flame burning.

Phil Woods

#14. I started singing Folksongs with my mother when I was 6 years old. We sang at Folk festivals and concerts and schools. There was always music being played either on record, Jazz and Folk, by musician friends of my mother. I took to singing very early, I believe it has been a Gift I was born with.

Vicki Sue Robinson

#15. While statistics are interesting, they're all in the past.

Vince Lombardi

#16. Never liked Kolanos. Was at a feast with him one time. Never heard him fart at all. Can't trust a man who doesn't fart at a feast.

David Gemmell