Quotes About Artistry

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

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.

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician.

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

If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard.

I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.

I still have a fantasy of being a musician when I grow up.

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

I've been a musician since childhood, and music is my first love. I love it.

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

Of course, we also have to play in concert halls. This is our dream when you are a musician - to play in a good, comfortable hall with a wonderful acoustic.

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

I always see myself as much more of a musician than a celebrity.

It's interesting, because as a musician, I don't feel like I need to be on the top of the pop charts.

To do an extreme metal record is something that is well within my capacity as a musician to write stuff out of the box, write stuff that's probably more extreme than the band I'm in at the present time, and it's something that needs to come out of me one way or another.

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 was a musician first before anything.

I don't think I've ever been true to jazz. There's always a kind of jazz element to what I do. There are a very few genres that I haven't tried out, really, in what I've been doing. As a jazz musician, you can kind of mess about with things with a certain level of musicianship, which helps.

Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician.

Chuck Berry told me if it wasn't for Louis Jordan, he wouldn't have probably ever even got into music. That Louis Jordan changed everything and made him want to become a musician.

Ornette Coleman is a real musician. He takes all of the things he's thinking about in the world - which is a whole universe upon universe - and translates this into music.

My only ambition is to grow as a musician.

Being a musician doesn't take away your right as a citizen to speak your mind.

It's really important to create something, like with my creations as a musician. Just let it flow. Focus on how to deliver message to audience. Don't get ego.