Musician Quotes

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

Family, Father, Leader

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 was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.
Cassandra Wilson

School, Church, Interested

I've also become much more the musician I've always wanted to be.
John Fogerty

You can never learn it all and I hope to continue my growth as a person and a musician.
Lita Ford

Hope, Person, Learn

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

Death, Parents, Put

In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.
Lee Konitz

Young, Ways, Complex

I love the life of a musician but I live the life of a bodybuilder.
Warren Cuccurullo

Life, Love, Live

I really practiced hard and got to a certain level of technical proficiency. I overcame some of my limitations. I was a hard-working, dedicated bassoonist, but I have to say I'm not a natural musician.
Nicholson Baker

Hard, Natural, Level

I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.
Peabo Bryson

Fun, Artist, Point

Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records.
Frank Black

Age, Great, Him

I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style.
Frank Black

Music, Easy, Rules

I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because you want to get along with whatever record company you're dealing with. I don't want to be flaky. I don't want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.
Frank Black

Life, Music, Business

I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined.
Frank Black

Parents, Reality, Voice

Being as versatile as I am, I take offense to the notion that no serious musician would not be doing a late night talk show gig. One has to be open enough in other areas to be able to contribute to a show like this.
Kevin Eubanks

Night, Enough, Serious

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

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, Fact, Read

Then I was lucky I met with my future husband, and I started new life with my husband, and I was happy again. He was a musician. I start to travel with him through Europe also and around the former Soviet Union.
Olga Korbut

Life, Future, Travel

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

Music, Crazy, Play

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

Thought, Masses, Basically

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

Music, Live, Illness

It's been important to me to be a good activist, a good thinker, a good musician, a good singer, and a good entertainer. You can't do it all, but I have walked those delicate lines as best I know how.
Holly Near

Good, Best, Important

Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
Ed O'Brien

Thought, Works, Painter

There are things that I am very proud of and there are things that you are not so proud of. But I think that applies to any musician.
Bill Wyman

Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.
Lana Del Rey

Music, Good, Simple

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

You can' t help being a musician because you've grown up with music, yet being one means being compared to your dad and being slated for it. But I really don't have the ambitions of most people going into the industry.
Dhani Harrison

Music, Dad, Help

Not everyone deserves to be a musician, you get lucky enough to be one.
Joshua Homme

Enough, Everyone, Lucky

'Cause I felt I didn't have anything else to prove as a musician... and boy was I wrong about that one.
Rick Allen

Wrong, Else, Felt

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