Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wayne Shorter

If all you have is music, then you don't have music

Juliana Hatfield

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

Kenneth Rexroth

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

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.

I am a Slavic musician and it is deeply inside of me.

Lita Ford

Don't get me wrong, I've seen some very excellent women musicians.

Patrick Rothfuss

A poet is a musician who can't sing.

Leon Redbone

Who told you I was a musician?

Paul Morley

I always thought that pop groups were going to be made up in the 21st century. It wouldn't be four musicians, as such. Especially in the online world, with the worlds that are opening up.

Marcus Miller

It's a great thing about being a musician; you don't stop until the day you die, you can improve. So it's a wonderful thing to do.

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.

Keith Jarrett

I realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute - unless something drastic occurs.

Keith Jarrett

Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.

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.

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.

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.

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.

George Crabbe

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

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.

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.

John Legend

Musicians are in-season all the time.

Tunde Adebimpe

My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.

Buddy Rich

A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught

Buddy Guy

Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.

Bobby McFerrin

I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.