Best Musician Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I suppose I am a frustrated musician so I annoy my family by playing guitar in the house. I used to be into acoustic stuff but my son Joseph is learning drums, so now I have an electric guitar and we play Metallica. We have an amp and a PA in the garage with his drum kit.”

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Author:Kevin McKidd

“Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them.”

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Author:Kurt Masur

“I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.”

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Author:Natalie Merchant

“I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.”

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Author:Robert Moog

“My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.”

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Author:Robert Moog

“People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself on the slopes, but I've always been a tomboy.”

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Author:Vanessa Mae

“I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians.”

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Author:Michael Nyman

“I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer.”

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Author:Stevie Nicks

“I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie.”

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Author:Will Oldham

“Being an actor is a much more structured life than being a musician.”

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Author:Grant-Lee Phillips

“Lady Gaga is one of the most amazingly talented musicians to bring her gifts to humanity in a long time.”

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Author:Jared Polis

“I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.”

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Author:Gyorgy Ligeti

“My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.”

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Author:Gyorgy Ligeti

“I first came to London as a musician, and when my group broke up, I did 'Guys and Dolls' at the Watford Palace theatre. After that, Ned Sherrin found me and brought me to the West End to do one of his shows. The work went from strength to strength, so I thought: 'This is where the world wants me; I'll stay.”

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Author:Clarke Peters

“Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums.”

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Author:Ronald Perelman

“Being in L.A., it was really hard to find a country writer and producer. I eventually - years of searching - found this guy, Dan Franklin. He's an incredible musician and producer. We write so well together... It's been a really cool experience.”

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Author:Sasha Pieterse

“I really wanted to be a musician, but it turned out I had no sense of time.”

Wanted Musician

Author:Tom Perrotta

“A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.”

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Author:Wendell Pierce

“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.”

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Author:Amy Ray

“I think the musicians I play with solo do a certain thing that the musicians we play with with the Indigo Girls don't do. It's just a different thing. And it sort of steers my writing in some ways.”

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Author:Amy Ray

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

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Author:Dave Van Ronk

“There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians.”

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Author:Dave Van Ronk

“I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.”

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Author:Eddie Redmayne

“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.”

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Author:Michael J. Fox

“There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25.”

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Author:Sonny Rollins

“Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed over there for a long time. A lot of them moved over there, lived over there, and died over there.”

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Author:Sonny Rollins

“I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs.”

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Author:Sonny Rollins

“My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.”

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Author:Dana Spiotta

“I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.”

Kind Interest Musician

Author:Karrine Steffans

“You must remember I grew up around music. Three of my family were musicians.”

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Author:Lori Singer

“I'm a musician. It's what I do! I wouldn't be too good at anything else.”

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Author:Chad Smith

“I just love to play and I get a chance to play with other musicians and I jump on it.”

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Author:Chad Smith

“When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba.”

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Author:Compay Segundo

“In most of the stuff that I've done over the years as a sideman, I wasn't really a session musician, because to me, a session musician is a guy who makes his living in the studio, and I never really did that.”

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Author:David Sanborn

“I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.”

Want Wanted Funny Musician

Author:Jamie Foxx

“I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, 'cause the people I was listening to all wrote. I never thought it was an option to sing anyone else's songs.”

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Author:Emeli Sande

“I always wanted to be a musician from when I was kid. It was always a massive dream of mine. School was also really really important to me and having an education was top of my priority. So I really wanted to have a degree before I tried anything in the music industry.”

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Author:Emeli Sande

“The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.”

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Author:Hal Sparks

“Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo.”

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Author:Karlheinz Stockhausen

“Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.”

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Author:Karlheinz Stockhausen

“Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.”

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Author:Jaron Lanier

“The life of any musician really doesn't fall into a normal schedule at all. Every week there are different rehearsals, different days and nights of performances, so we don't have a particular pattern that we can follow. For a conductor, it is a little bit worse because we have to allow for traveling.”

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Author:Leonard Slatkin

“Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere.”

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Author:Maurice Saatchi

“I think there are just a million interviews in anthologies with famous musicians that are about the music, and they're really boring to read.”

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Author:Neil Strauss

“You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville.”

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Author:Richie Sambora

“Most things in my life I had before leaving home. Values, support, great family. I was shaped at an early age. A musician playing guitar, I wanted to be a folk singer.”

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Author:Sissy Spacek

“It was about working with other musicians, but more than that it's about exploring musical areas that you could never do with the band you're in, in my case Judas Priest. You could tackle musical areas and lyrical areas that wouldn't be appropriate for Priest.”

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Author:Glenn Tipton

“Being able to travel the world is pretty cool. There are places that I've always wanted to go to but being able to go there as somebody who's a musician and is recognised as one is cool.”

World Able Wanted Musician Travel The World

Author:Tinie Tempah

“The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field.”

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Author:Toru Takemitsu

“I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, you know, basically playing a musician, and all the songs she plays are off my record.”

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Author:Kate Voegele

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