When I was younger, I always wanted to be a musician, a performer and an entertainer – but I never thought about becoming a poster or anything like that. It’s pretty cool.
In the day-to-day life of a traveling musician, it’s easy to miss so many details. The world goes by at high-speed; it will take your breath away.
‘Cause I felt I didn’t have anything else to prove as a musician… and boy was I wrong about that one.
I have to say that Adam Levine is truly a daring young man to go on Twitter to bash Fox News. He’s so rebellious, so subversive. I mean, for a musician, seriously, could you find a more predictable stance than that? He’s as edgy as a hacky sack, which also describes his music.
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
I’m just a musician and a record producer.
I’m a self-taught musician aside from what I’ve been able to pick up from other players.
Every musician writes about past relationships. And other than that, I can promise you, I have very little in common with Taylor Swift.
I don’t think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it.
I like to call myself a 360-degree artist. I’m a musician, but I have other things I do, too.
America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.
Every musician tries to blend in some reggae. It’s the only music that brings all people together, different races, different religions.
Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.
I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician.
I love film, and I would love to be a part of something that people universally love as a piece of film. Sure. Of course I would. And I would love to take acting lessons, and see that side of it someday. But I’m a musician.
I’m an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.
A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.
I’m a keen musician. Me and my mates have a great times jamming and recording stuff. We have a great band behind us and have turned my nursery-rhyme songs into quite credible pieces of music.
I’m not a very technical musician at all.
I’ve been a musician since childhood, and music is my first love. I love it.
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.
I would love to interview Dave Grohl. I just think he’s an amazing musician, and I grew up listening to Nirvana, so I have so many questions about that.
I am a musician by rights, and I played in Asbury Park in the old African Room in the Robert Trent Hotel next to the Albion. That was in the early ’60s.
I won’t complain about touring, because I really do believe that a public-figure musician complaining about being a public-figure musician is just absurd. Like, ‘Boo hoo hoo! I have to stand on stage and people pay attention to me!’
To do an extreme metal record is something that is well within my capacity as a musician to write stuff out of the box, write stuff that’s probably more extreme than the band I’m in at the present time, and it’s something that needs to come out of me one way or another.
I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman.
I never minded being thought of as a pop star. People have always thought I wanted to be seen as a serious musician, but I didn’t, I just wanted people to know that I was absolutely serious about pop music.
Drag is great way to get people to pay attention to me, but it’s a difficult way to get people to take me seriously as a musician. So it’s a weird Catch-22. It’s like a gimmick that gets them to pay attention, but when they see my image, they’re like, ‘There’s no way this is going to have any legitimacy to it.’
I did everything I could to not be a musician.
I had a musician friend once tell me that it’s not in the orchestra that you get the true test of the musicians but in the little trios and quintets where you really get to see if they’ve got the stuff. And the composer.
My wife, Gayle, is a wonderful musician and singer. We share music, so it’s a deep bond.
Burzum was never my choice of life. I didn’t even want to become a musician.
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.
The mini-Moog was conceived originally as a session musician’s axe, something a guy could carry to the studio, do a gig and walk out.
I couldn’t concentrate on music. So I made the choice to give up my career as a musician in the frontline to deal with the business.
I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they’ll become a great musician.
I don’t think I have an image of being an underground musician. I have an image of being an uncompromising musician, and I am well known in Norway partly because of that.
As a musician, you want the music in as many hands as you can get it into. More importantly, I want people to get the music for the fairest price, and in the most convenient way. And that’s really turned into iTunes when you’re talking about selling albums.
As a musician I’m about expressing what’s inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is.
Tell me a musician who’s got rich off digital sales. Apple’s doing pretty good though, right?
I enjoy people who have passion, whether it is as a musician or whatever they do. All people who have success keep it very basic. Try your best. But without passion, you will not have success.
From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.
You know, when you’re an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you’re a musician, you want to go to Nashville.
A long time ago, Prince said that no musician is ever gonna make money off the Internet, and he was right.
My husband is a musician, and ‘Paste’ is one of his favorite places to be interviewed by.
I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a musician, as an artist, record producer, you name it.
A painter has his brushes, a musician his instrument and as an actor you use your body.
Sometimes being a musician has little to do with viability and everything to do with survivability. Many musicians start out great, and they wind up out of the business in 10 years.
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.
Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician’s music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.
When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.
Every time we buy a CD or download a song, the artist is paid for their work. You might not know that this isn’t the case when a musician’s work is played on the radio.
You’re a constant student, as a musician.
Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn’t a singer.
If I hadn’t turned out to be a filmmaker, I would have been a musician.
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.’
A musician’s whole life is to listen.
I really wanted to be a musician, but it turned out I had no sense of time.
I’m a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz.
‘Simeon’s Gift’ is really – it’s about a musician who – in the Middle Ages, who goes out to find his muse.
I don’t set out to win awards. I don’t think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it’s an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do.
When I was 12, I decided to become a musician. ‘Physical Graffiti’ was the first album I ever owned.
I think the death knell for any musician is getting a job that you like and pays enough that you just stay there forever.
No, I’ve heard over the years that it’s nice for them to see somebody who’s like, you know, a well-known successful musician who’s Asian. I’ve heard it from a few musicians, too.
