Quotes About Musician

Anytime a musician says they're going to retire they're lying.

The most rewarding experience as a musician is to know that I moved people personally.

I always thought of myself as more of a rhythm player than a big soloist.

I've never been known as a riff kind of artist.

Before I play a show, I put on lavender oil - it's sort of a ritual.

Yeah, of course, there's always gonna be people with their own opinions about a female in rock music and men in rock music, but at the end of the day, it's just about being a good musician.

I never set out to be a rock star, I set out to be a working musician.

For 12 years, I was playing writer's rounds.

My dad was a musician, played on the road and played all of his life. And I grew up in a musical family. I heard it all. I mean, I got accustomed to listening to Roy Acuff and all the old guys. It was really cool for me growing up in a family like that.

I don't consider being a musician the same thing as being a celebrity.

I've always wanted to be a musician. I love music; like, I probably sang when I was born.

I was a born rock n' roll sax player.

My mother was the only musician. She played piano and she sang. She also played saxophone. And she played at home a lot.

A.R. Rahman is not a musician, he is a musical scientist, and when he gives advice, you need to take it seriously.

The music became secondary to being rock stars.

We're all private people, but as a musician, I think that once you get to the point where there's more of your life behind you than in front of you, you owe it to your public to explain yourself.

When I was 12, I decided to become a musician. 'Physical Graffiti' was the first album I ever owned.

I've always had money because of my early success with Cream, so I tell young musicians to aim to write their own material, because owning the composition rights makes a very big difference.

Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.

So I've tried to be this very eccentric character, and that works very well if you want to be a painter which I did once upon a time, if you want to be a musician which I did once upon a time. But if you want to make movies and you want to make challenging movies, you've got to be the sanest person in the room.

I have a lot of successful musician pals, and as I get older, I find that I'm lucky to be a writer. I have great anonymity compared to musicians who sell the same number of records as I do books.

If you get the chance to be a Bourke Street busker, you actually have to do an audition in front of a council panel. You get a roster every week that has your busking shifts on it - I'm serious: it's an actual job.

A lot of my musician friends have the same kind of anxiety and panic when faced with crowds of people, and I do, too.

I think I'm an okay parent, but I'd put myself in the category of a musician-who-happened-to-become-a-father. I'm definitely not a father-who-happened-to-be-a-musician.