I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.
Pablo Casals

I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.
Robyn Hitchcock

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

I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way.
Kevin Eubanks

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

I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter.
Bruce Springsteen

I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard.
Dick Dale

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.
Gavin Rossdale

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

I don't spend a lot of time thinking of what they'll do musically, I try to imagine being locked into a windowless room with this person for twelve hours at a time. If you can look at that and think it might be fun then maybe you've got the right musician.
Leo Kottke

I feel like you're not a real musician or entertainer if you can't go into a room, pick up an instrument and entertain people.
Chris Cornell

I feel very honored to be playing with Bill Pierce. He's such a great musician.
Kevin Eubanks

I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.
Bobby McFerrin

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.
Billy Sherwood

I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio.
John Tesh

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.
Michael J. Fox

I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.
Geddy Lee

I have never learned to read or write music so I am not a virtuoso musician like the others you mentioned. I am completely unable to play like them because I never learned classical music, I just developed my own crazy style!
Ken Hensley

I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.
Robert Smith

I hope America sees I am a goofy guy andI'm kind a crazy, I hope they see that I am a musician aswell, that I have music all around my body - I'm just exfoliating music, and I just hope America sees that.
Casey Abrams