Quotes About Musician

I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or to put in a recording studio, or something like that.

My name's Darren. I'm a musician, part time idiot. That's a full time job actually.

It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.

I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a "jazz musician" - it's a big responsibility.

Being a writer is part of a noble tradition, as is being a musician – the last egalitarian and open associations. No matter what happens in terms of fame and fortune, dedication to writing is a marching-step forward from where you were before, when you didn't care about reaching out to the world, when you weren't hoping to contribute, when you were just standing there doing some job into which you had fallen.

What more perfect guise for a vampire, I thought, than that of a rock musician?

In the day-to-day life of a traveling musician, it's easy to miss so many details. The world goes by at high-speed; it will take your breath away.

I've made a life and career as a professional musician.

I've been a musician my whole life. I'm really enjoying making music again.

What a young musician's dream, to say, "Look at those chrome drums. Look at that 22-inch ride cymbal. I'll have those." It was one of those unparalleled exciting days of your life.

I'm a musician and I'm really blessed, because in my life if I can hold the sticks, I can play.

Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums.

When I hear a great musician, I can feel his life inside the music.

I've dated a couple of guys who were awesome, and the celebrity part of my life and the traveling part are hard to get around. You never get to see each other, especially if you're both musicians.

When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life.

If a musician wants to be an actor, everyone thinks that's pretty cool. But if an actor wants to play a song, even if they've been doing it for 40 years, that's bad news.

Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.

Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it may bore you, but nothing will replace it, and once mastered it will support you like a rock.

Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. That's an important part of being a successful musician. It's a good thing, I guess.

I feel like that's what's going to be most respected at the end of the day, that I'm able to do so many different things and become less of a rapper and just more as a musician.

I'm not just a rapper. I'm an entertainer. That's the difference.

I'm not only a rapper, I'm an entertainer.

People were talking while I was playing, so I got up and left the stage. I've gotten to the point where I'm not really very patient with patrons rapping during the show. And the people were all nice and quiet when I cam back.

I'm a bred musician - this is generational. For me to just limit myself to rapping is a discredit to my bloodline.