Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herbie Hancock

I am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being.

Herbie Hancock

I don't look at music from the standpoint of being a musician; I look at it from the standpoint of being a human being.

Herbie Hancock

Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.

Jack White

It's hard to find other musicians that push you to go somewhere new all the time.

Iggy Pop

A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don’t feel great about, and it’ll make you feel so bad it’ll destroy you and kill you.

George Harrison

I'd rather be a musician than a rock star.

Anthony Newley

I'm not a trained musician or singer, but I can turn out a song.

Sufjan Stevens

A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the 'Modifier's Madness.' A lot of adjectives working overtime.

John Cage

With just one musician, you can really do an unlimited number of things on the inside of the piano, if you have at your disposal an exploded keyboard.

George Crabbe

Feed the musician, and he's out of tune.

Morton Feldman

Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians.

Milarepa

If you are a musician, in my opinion there is no greater experience than to play for one's master. It is the highest calling.

Miles Davis

When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they're still here and passing it on to others.

Jonny Lang

I always knew I wanted to be a musician.

John Fogerty

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

John Fogerty

Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other.

John McLaughlin

Spirituality is worthless if it's not practical. Music is my work. I am a musician.

Levon Helm

I'm not in it for my health. I'm a musician and I wanna live the way I do.

Juliet Stevenson

I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician.

Joshua Homme

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

Karrine Steffans

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

Lisa Gerrard

There's something extremely fragile about musicians, and that's their strength.

Tinie Tempah

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.

Tom Perrotta

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

Romain Rolland

Everything is music for the born musician.

Lenny Kravitz

One musician listens to another musician, and you get inspired and then you do your thing, but it's yours.

Thom Yorke

I'm not a martyr, just a musician who dies for your sins. Oh, that's what a martyr is? Very well then, I am a martyr, if you insist.

Oscar Peterson

He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz.

Oscar Peterson

I'm a musician and, just as the critics are hard on me, I'm hard on the critics.

Kanye West

I'm not a corny-ass booty freak! I'm the greatest musician of all-time.

Kanye West

I am not what I would consider truly a musician. I am an inventor. I am an innovator.

Gustav Mahler

It is always the same with me; only when I experience something do I compose, and only when composing do I experience! After all, a musician's nature can hardly be expressed in words.

John Legend

I don't feel like that many musicians are competitive with each other.