Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erykah Badu

The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.

I never thought of being a musician as a proper career.

Frances Bean Cobain

The death of young musicians isn’t something to romanticize

Gary Larson

I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.

Elvis Costello

I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale.

Greg Giraldo

If being a gangster were a prerequisite to being a musician, there'd be a lot less cello music, for example.

Glenn Gould

[Bach is the] reason I became a musician

Grant-Lee Phillips

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

John Waters

I don't like heroin, unless you're a jazz musician and then you have to be on it because jazz is the sound of heroin.

John Sebastian

In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.

Nick Lowe

A devastating culmination of the elegant and the funky, a really sensational musician with enormous depth.

Mick Jagger

Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.

Thelonious Monk

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

Mary Timony

I feel really different from other musicians.

Michael Chiklis

I've been a musician my whole life. I'm really enjoying making music again.

Snoop Dogg

I'm a musician - I'm always making music. Kobe Bryant is always playing ball. Well, Snoop Dogg is always recording.

K'naan

I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.

Keith Richards

I don't wave a flag for anything. I'm a musician.

Juliana Hatfield

I wanted to be a writer since I was a little girl - long before I was a musician and a songwriter.

The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.

Jamie Cullum

I never sought out a record deal. It caught me with my pants down. I was just a musician doing my thing, I didn't even send my records out.

Robert Moog

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

Bill Dixon

If musicians don't do any music, then there isn't any music. Musicians are very tricky and can be quite elusive.

Nick Hornby

In other words, it's too tough to be a musician at the moment.

Johnny Winter

I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician.

John Zorn

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like

James Cook

Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.

Jake Epstein

I came from a huge extended family of musicians.

Henry Rollins

There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.

Henry Rollins

Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician.

Henry Adams

[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

In ancient times the greatest of the prophets were great musicians.

This is only the second time Tommy has been here in Texas for something like this. Normally, musicians of his reputation work with college-level students; we're very fortunate.