Quotes About Music

My dad is my biggest influence on me as a musician, even though he's not a musician.

A musician's whole life is to listen.

Combing my hair doesn't make me a better musician.

Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.

The only way a musician can express feelings is playing.

It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.

It is important for the musician to learn as much about the composer as possible and to study the music he has written. Then, even a short piece by Brahms or Chopin can be played with much more understanding.

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

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

There is nothing more beautiful for a musician to listen and see harmony.

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.

Music has always been my first love, and I appreciate how a great musician can bring awareness to tough issues through their work.

Any saxophone player will have those influences come through in their music in a very different way. I can listen to the same 10 sax players as someone else for my entire life, and we'll both play completely differently. That's the beauty of being a musician.

The greatest thing about doing this movie was that Chris and I both were involved in folk music in the '60s. I had a group, but I don't think it was at the same level as Chris, because he's an amazing musician.

Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.

My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.

I hope America sees I am a goofy guy andI'm kind a crazy, I hope they see that I am a musician aswell, that I have music all around my body - I'm just exfoliating music, and I just hope America sees that.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.

Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.

As a musician, you never understand why people connect with certain songs.

The fact that I wasn't expected to read music at all and was absorbing everything by ear... it had a huge affect on the kind of musician that I became.

I love writing songs and being a musician, but you can't really buy the feeling of connecting with people.

Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.

Every record, you've got more experiences to draw on as a writer and a musician.