Quotes About Musician

All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.

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.

Most things in my life I had before leaving home. Values, support, great family. I was shaped at an early age. A musician playing guitar, I wanted to be a folk singer.

Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.

I'm so proud that my offspring became a musician. I'm full of awe that we are able to have a whole family live the life of artists.

I know I'm always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That's for sure. It's about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.

It's easy for people to mistake most musicians as living the easy life. It takes a while to get to that point. I'm sure it's like that for acting and television.

When I look back on my life, I don't have regrets about what I didn't do. If I'd become a musician, it could have ruined my life.

The good man," says Plato, "is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

But it's always really difficult to find someone that has the qualities to be a great accompanist.

I'm the quiet bass player.

Even as a child I knew I wanted to be a singer, and in 1976, at the age of 20, I quit my job at Vauxhall Motors in Luton and became a musician.

I have a buddy of mine who's a musician, and I play guitar and sing quite a bit with him.

The project which we developed, however, was for a sound piece and I was initially curious that a sculptor should be interested in working with a musician, especially on a project for radio.

I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll play a few gigs and then disappear for a while.

I'm not a gangster. I'm a musician.

At this point, I think I would garner a lot of hate mail if I was now on the cover of Modern Drummer seeing as I'm not a modern drummer anymore.

Whenever I was in the dressing room on my own, I'd start playing blues to myself. One night, Bob Daisley, the bass player, came in and said, 'You know, Gary, you should make a blues album next. It might be the biggest thing you ever did.' I laughed. He laughed, too. But I did, and he was right, and it was.

I'm a real musician's musician: I get really geeky on chords and arrangements.

And like, I think when I was 14, I was like, OK, I'm going to go to college. I'm going to get out of college when I'm, like, 21, 22, then I'm going to get married. Then, I'm going to, like, be, like, rock star-musician-scientist.

Yauch was a gifted MC.

By the time I was about 15, I was out playing gigs and knew I was going to be a musician.

My dad wanted to be a musician, so when I started playing guitar, he was like, 'Go for it.' That is what I did for ages; I was in bands. And then I went to university and got into comedy somehow.

I'm a musician and I go places and perform to people that want to listen to good music.