As an artist or musician, you want to be remembered for the music you make.
I’m a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked.
The age of 18 seemed the right time to try something different in my life. Moving to the U.K. was a risk, and I was never confident that I could ever make a full-time living being a musician, but I had to try. Initially, I worked as a jazz musician in pubs or with bands.
My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.
I’ve also become much more the musician I’ve always wanted to be.
I feel very privileged to have played China, and the pyramids, all these fantastic places, but it created a kind of smoke curtain between the audience and me as a musician.
I am a muso, and I love doing it. I assumed that would be my career for a long time. I always wanted to be a writer, but I didn’t think that anyone could actually be that full-time, so I always go back to conducting and arranging and playing. If you scratch me, I’m a musician.
I actually was a musician in college, a composer and singer, and really intended to be the second coming of Leonard Bernstein when I got out.
I love writing songs and being a musician, but you can’t really buy the feeling of connecting with people.
I am not immune to the lure of a signed record, flier or set list. The fact that your music heroes potentially had, in their own hands, the record you now have in yours is kind of cool. When the musician has departed, it can give the thing a unique power.
I’m a musician. I play harmonica for relaxation. A good way to relax and entertain people. An excellent way to have fun.
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.
So it’s more the musician in me that makes me stretch out and try different things more than anything. But, like a lot of guitar players, I have one certain niche that’s my thing that I’m better at than the others.
With cab drivers, I always say I’m from Brazil. I don’t say I’m from Israel. It’s happened more than once that someone is blaming me for the government’s policy. And I say, ‘Listen, I live here. I’m a musician. I don’t call the shots.’
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.
One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound.
Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.
I don’t really like to call myself a brand, and I don’t like to think of myself as a brand. I’m a singer, a songwriter, a musician and a performer. And an actress, and all the other things that I do. When you add it all together, some might call it a brand, but that’s not my focus.
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.
To be fair to David Brent, he wants to be famous for doing something, for being a musician, but he’s just not good enough.
Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I’m interested in is making money.
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.
From the R&B side, I’ve always been a huge Brian McKnight fan. He’s just as talented as it gets vocally, and as a musician. I think it’d be real cool to do something with him.
What I have to do as a musician is do everything that is not on the music.
Jimmy Slyde was more a musician than a dancer; Greg Hines was more musician than dancer.
I signed up to be a musician, I want to perform, I want to sing.
The musicians in Chicago gave me my vocation, but New York calls to a jazz musician, for sure. You want to test your mettle.
I listen to all sorts of music, but I’m not musically talented. Everyone expects me to be a good singer or musician, but I really am terrible. I’m a great dancer, though.
Also, I’d like to play an athlete again, while I’m still physically fit, or a musician, like Nat King Cole, because I play the trumpet and sing. I’d like to incorporate that into a character.
When I look at how fortunate I’ve been, being a musician… my response to being overpaid is that I should pay it back to my community in some way.
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.
Once a musician, always a musician.
I always see myself as much more of a musician than a celebrity.
I wasn’t a jazz player, but a classical musician, and I improvised arrangements of popular songs using classical motifs.
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.
And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs.
In my view a jazz musician is a great musician.
Since my father is a musician as well, he taught me growing up that if you can play jazz, you can learn all instruments and write on them. He wanted me to be a songwriter that can do anything in any genre. I’m all about doing every genre.
When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they’d teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.
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.
I have very strong feelings about a lot of things. I am sometimes reluctant to come straight to the forefront with it. You know, first and foremost, I’m a musician. I’m a songwriter.
In order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.
Not everyone deserves to be a musician, you get lucky enough to be one.
I always try to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young musician. One of the reasons we’re here is to be a part of this process of exchange.
The difference between noise and music is in what the musician does with the sounds.
I became a musician because that’s really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.
The ‘Daryl’s House’ thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.
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.
My grandfather is a blues musician.
I’m on my feet and I’m doing what I love to do, and I’m in a profession, as a musician, where we can go on for as long as we can go on.
I’m a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn’t take vocal ability necessarily.
I don’t come from a musical family at all, but I realized early on I was a musician. I started begging for a piano when I was 6 years old.
Sometimes it’s very hard for other New Orleans musicians to break out. It starts with the musician. They have to be willing to take a risk. Playing in the city, you can get comfortable. You think things are going well, but you’re always in the city.
I’m a musician. I’m not, like, a personality. I’ve never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
Once I tried to find myself as a musician and a composer, I went back and saw that there was something special about Puerto Rican music. I knew that before, but had never sat down and thought about it. The more I learned about it, the more it found its way into the music I was writing.
I grew up in a musical family, but nobody was a professional musician.
I definitely see myself as an international musician. When I play, I respect the source of the music, whether it’s Cuban, Brazilian or Israeli. I try to bring that to all of the music I play. Music has no borders and no flags.
I am a Slavic musician and it is deeply inside of me.
A rock musician’s career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.
Every record, you’ve got more experiences to draw on as a writer and a musician.
I’m a musician with a very unique mental state, I suppose. I’m agoraphobic. I’m scared to leave my house. I haven’t been alone in, like, two years. I’m either with my boyfriend or my assistant, my manager or my tour manager. I won’t go anywhere by myself; I’m too terrified.
I think one of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.
I’m a failed musician rather than a successful writer.
I started writing poetry when I was 12 years old and also undertook vocal training since a young age. However, it was only during my time at the University of Oxford did the musician in me came alive.
