Quotes About Musician

I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician.

Tell me a musician who's got rich off digital sales. Apple's doing pretty good though, right?

I was a good father. I was a nice guy, pretty good guitar player, and funny as hell.

I'm a good guy, and I'm a pretty good drummer, by the way.

I literally learned everything I could try to do to get a date, and it did not work when I was younger. I heard people love musicians, so I took up the bagpipes.

When you walk out in front of an audience of over 70,000 people, you've got to be on your game. They deserve it.

We're musicians and despite that, we get more political questions than musical questions, which kind of irks me.

A legacy is a lot of times determined by how people accept your music. And sometimes people's legacy starts late or starts early, or they last a long time or a short amount of time. As a musician, I've never taken an approach of wanting to try to control that because I don't think that I can.

There are very few courses around Detroit I haven't played.

I think the live show is a different kind of catharsis. It's an event. It's supposed to be entertaining. To keep myself entertained, I like to play a rock n' roll show. I still kind of feel like I'm a rock n' roll musician anyway.

I got by as a musician since day one. I don't live beyond my means. I have real cheap tastes.

My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter.

I think I came across Cecil Taylor a bit later, in 65 or 66. That really impressed me - Cecil Taylor is an amazing character... Both his music and the way he approaches the instrument are astonishing.

I always try to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young musician. One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now, direct the Jazz Ensemble and teach improvisation classes.

My father is a jazz musician, so I grew up hearing jazz. My parents loved it, but I didn't like it. It went on for too long. Yes, I had certain teachers that really inspired me, like Danny Barker, and John Longo. And I had no idea that I would have any impact on jazz.

As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation.

Every musician that comes along teaches me something.

I think if I wasn't a musician, I would be a high-school band director or orchestra director. I like working with large groups of musicians and bringing out the dynamics and accomplishing something as a team.

I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude - he wasn't a great player, but everything else about him was brilliant.

I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing.

Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that's what caught everybody's attention. As a player, he didn't do anything amazing.

As Iggy later recalled, in a typical week they'd spend two days drunk, two days nursing their hangovers, and three days straight—"which is a pretty good balance for musicians.

No soy un señor, milady. Soy un pastor, y toco la flauta en las posadas