Quotes About Musician

I'm the greatest bass player in the world.

I am a saxophone player.

I still don't really feel like a bass player.

I'm not a good guitar player.

Being a bass player in these big-time rock bands is hard work.

So, I really don't consider myself a fabulous keyboard player.

I'm not a great piano player.

One of my favorite guitar players and musicians is a guy named Jimmy Herring.

The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending that I do. I have to get my guitars refretted every couple of months.

I'm not a big fan of guitar face: you know, when someone's playing guitar, and they make this really embarrassing face, like they smush their lips together and... they look you in the eye, and it's really humiliating.

We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm.

I am just a guy who plays drums.

I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle.

That said, everything's important, and every musician who plays on the record is an integral part of it.

Our father was a farmer and an entrepreneur as well as a musician, and we're pleased to deliver the fine taste of Jamaican coffee and our family's heritage to people everywhere through Marley's One Drop.

Being a musician, people ask you a lot about what musicians inspire you, and there's plenty of musicians that I love and respect, but I think that I'm the most inspired by cinema.

Do not make the writer stand behind a podium. Anything but. A podium reeks of the lecture hall. A music stand, on the other hand, is nicely minimal and lends the writer - who usually needs all the help s/he can get - a musician's second-hand cool-factor.

I've always tried to be a poet more than anything else. I mean, professional musicians die.

For me, music is sort of my passion, more so than being an actor. I just never tried to make a career as a musician. It was just something that I did on my own time, just for me. I had written a lot of songs, but I don't really record a lot of music because, for me, it's the same way as a poet: I write to get things out. It's sort of cathartic.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

My father, composer Sardar Malik, used to say that a good musician should always try to imbibe good poetry. One reason why today's songs don't have a shelf life is because of inane lyrics.

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.

I love it that my father is such a classical musician and such a traditionalist, and at the same time has had a wild life and a crazy time.

All my close friends are normal dudes and then I will hang out with some girl who is a musician and everyone thinks that's what it's all about.