A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.
Charlie Trotter

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
Benny Green

A musician can get lost to what he is in the session busines as it was.
Jim Sullivan

A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special - spiritually or however you can.
Charlie Byrd

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
Abraham Maslow

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
Henry Moore

A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.
Marguerite Yourcenar

All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.
John Coltrane

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs.
Charlie Byrd

And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be an actor. My father used to say to me you should be an actor if you want to be in the arts.
Katey Sagal

And of course, the musician - if he's serious - always answers: My last album is my best, otherwise I wouldn't have done it.
Klaus Schulze

Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.
Paul Westerberg

As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
Van Morrison

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.
Georges Bizet

As a musician usually music is your way out.
Damon Albarn

As a musician, basically the masses never thought I was a musician.
Kip Winger

As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.
Michelle Shocked

As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation.
Franz Liszt

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