Musician Quotes

When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.
Trey Anastasio

Common, Break, Ground

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.
Joshua Chamberlain

Battle, Find, Sick

The fact that I wasn't expected to read music at all and was absorbing everything by ear... it had a huge affect on the kind of musician that I became.
Andrew Bird

Music, Everything, Fact

I think having a vision can make someone an influential man. I'm not talking about acting or anything like that, I'm talking about people I admire, whether it's a writer or a musician or a sports figure or a politician, whatever.
Benicio Del Toro

Sports, Someone, Acting

Buddy Rich was one of the most incredible technicians in the world, on this planet, but the only people he could really impress, who knew what he was doing was another musician or another drummer.
Dick Dale

Rich, Another, Knew

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

Claim, Julliard

Michael Jackson will always be my favorite pop musician; he was for years and years until his death, which was horrible to me. So I like pop culture. But to me, even if it's popular, there is a quality in the music you have to be able to appreciate.
Michel Gondry

Music, Death, Able

One thing, when you're an actor, you finish something and then you have to worry about what the next gig is. When you're a musician, you can always write your own stuff, and I'm working on new stuff for a new album right now.
Chris Isaak

Working, Worry, Write

I got by as a musician since day one. I don't live beyond my means. I have real cheap tastes.
Chris Isaak

Live, Real, Means

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

Life, True, Young

If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard.
Brad Paisley

Idea, Song, Melody

For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy.
Maurice Ravel

Nature, Him, Different

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

Work, Hard, Top

As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely everything.
Darren Criss

Art, True, Everything

As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything - I just enjoy music.
Darren Criss

Music, Everything, Enjoy

But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing.
Geddy Lee

Positive, Tell, Playing

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

Rock, Hard, Felt

There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.
William Kingdon Clifford

Him, Made, Tell

The sound was my greatest concern. There were certain difficulties getting used to the way every musician can hear his or herself, the way each of them relates to the musician in the next seat.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Greatest, Used, Getting

I confess to being a frustrated musician.
Stella McCartney

Frustrated, Confess

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

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.
Damon Albarn

Politics, Start, Getting

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

Time, Learning, Road

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

Life, Real, Before

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.
Tony Visconti

Today, Person, Often

No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.
Tony Visconti

Faith, Family, Else

I'm not a trained musician. When folks talk about 'Well, you go to this or that' - the tenor, or the third part - I don't really know what they're talking about.
Emmylou Harris

Talk, Talking, Third

I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema.
Jim Jarmusch

Writing, Wanted, Found

I went to public school, and it shaped me as a musician.
Ruben Studdard

School, Public, Shaped

Interestingly, I matured as a musician and as an artist before I matured as a man. What I mean by that is, I was ready to be completely vulnerable and honest with myself and unapologetic when it comes to how I express myself in my medium. But I wasn't as secure in doing that when it came to just being myself.
Miguel Jontel Pimentel

Mean, Before, Honest

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