Quotes About Musician

Of course, my sister and my dad, I respect as musicians and look up to them, but people kind of forget that they're my family, so my first reaction isn't always, 'Let me see what my dad and Miley think about this record.'

Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary.

The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.

I'm not a very creative person, you know? I'm not really an art person. I'm not a great reader or writer or artist or musician.

It's tough to be in a relationship with a musician, because it reads sometimes as this ego and self-involvement when it's really just concentration and focus.

We've shown everyone we are musicians first and foremost: we'll produce our own albums and play The 100 Club. We earned people's respect. We're not the band on MTV, wearing a bunch of makeup. We've proved we're the real deal.

I'd photographed musicians before but this was different. Syd was very charismatic, and he had the aura of a poete maudit, which made him the perfect subject for me - I realised that rock n' rollers were the modern equivalent of all the poets I was so enamoured with.

I started as a musician. I play the saxophone, but from the age of 17, I realised that it's very hard to make a living as a jazz musician in Australia. So I went for an audition and got an acting job and, fortunately, I completely fell in love with that.

There wasn't any one particular moment where I realised, you know what, I'm going to be a musician. The decision more came from a lack of options.

People have told me I look like Gordon Lightfoot.

I'm a church musician. I play gospel music; that's what I do. I never had a chance to produce gospel music, and I did a full album with Lecrae that's the number one Christian album. It's super-big for me.

I love my job as a musician, and I am filled with gratitude that good people support my endeavors.

I have a great deal of respect for myself as a musician and a writer, even if I'm not doing it anymore.

We have a George Foreman grill on the bus.

My playing is always just a little on top of the beat. I can't lay down the kind of groove that Brad Wilk can. I'd really have to lay back to do that; it just doesn't feel natural to me.

I was a drummer and I played the guitar.

I'm an old guitar player who has fallen into television and is so happy he did.

We all knew that asking another guitar player to step into Duane Allman's shoes would not really be fair to anybody who had a conscience.

If somebody needed a guitar player for a tour and I was free and it was the right situation, I'd do it and it would be good fun. There would be much less pressure if I just had to stand there and play leads.

I'm an okay drummer, I'm an okay bass player, I'm an okay keyboardist, and I'm a quite good guitar player.

I was a guitar player first off.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm just a guitar player, and my job is to go out there and play and entertain and do my thing.

I'm the guitar player in Belle & Sebastian.

There is nothing wrong about being a rock n' roll guitar player.