Quotes About Entertainment

I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way.

I wanted to be a musician, either a guitarist or a drummer. I guess my dreams were in the entertainment industry, and I landed somewhere along there.

People be famous for everything other than music and that's what they really trying to do. But they don't know once you get famous for being this funny guy, nobody's going to take you serious as a musician.

Being a musician is a job - it is just a really fun one!

If you were to ask me, 'What the hell does a musician have in common with a restaurant?' I would say a huge amount. It's show time every day, it's a team of people, like, running a circus, which is running a rock-and-roll band.

My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor. I just happen to be an author.

I came out to L.A. in '78 to be a musician. I didn't get into comedy until the mid-Eighties.

I think I'm more entertainer than musician. I like to get with the crowd, make this night special for them.

Having live musicians in a comedy show adds a frisson.

I would love to do a serious period drama. Oh, absolutely. I mean, you'll find most comedians want to do more serious stuff, most musicians want to be comedians, and most serious actors want to be musicians.

Cheech and I used to call ourselves musicians; we never called ourselves comedians. We were musicians that were funny.

Most people are at a concert because they want to be inspired, entertained, moved; we musicians have the mission to be bringers of joy, of ecstasy.

The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.

I think musicians should stay off television generally.

I've met a lot of jazz musicians in my day, and they're all funny.

For most artists, you take what you have and who you are, and then you expand on it to make it more entertaining. Everyone knows actors aren't the same people that they play in movies, but people somehow expect musicians to be a certain way all the time!

I do not play to musicians. I play to the people.

I think that's one thing about the entertainment industry: Athletes want to be actors, and musicians want to be actors, so it all kind of mixes nice together.

In the mid-1800s, they were known also as 'singsong houses,' and the courtesans were actually master musicians.

For musicians, Musikfest is the most cool event.

We are in the entertainment business. This should be fun. We are musicians; we don't save lives. We shouldn't... we shouldn't take ourselves too seriously or be revered that much.

If you want a show to talk about politics or the Muslim ban or whatever - someone should make that show. That's not what I'm interested in.

It seems that two of the most basic forms of comedy are jokes and stories. And, of course, they are not mutually exclusive.

I would come home with my friend Bill, and we would sit and watch 'Get Smart.' And I was Agent 44, and he was Agent 85. And it was a fantastic - and all we wanted to do was sleep with Barbara Feldon.