Quotes About Musician

I'm just a traveling musician.

When you've travelled for 34 years as a musician, you do all the culture stuff when you're young and full of energy. In the middle stage, you indulge too much and are scared of daylight. Then, in the final stage, you've seen it all, so you tend to take things a lot easier.

From childhood, I have been more of a musician than a singer. People close to me know how much effort I put into practising. Even when I am travelling, I have my tanpura on my iPhone.

I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale.

I always fly British Airways. I find them to be the most dependable and I need to be on time when I'm travelling for gigs.

Before the 20th century, to be a successful musician was merely to be one who was employed. A few, such as Liszt, Paderewski and several singers, had phenomenally lucrative careers, but they were rare - and Liszt gave all of his money away, travelling by choice in a third-class rail carriage.

I found that pedals were too much to fool around with. You'd be halfway through a solo, and the batteries would go dead and conk out. And if you tread on the lead going to the pedal, something would always go wrong. Or some crazy kid would pull the lead out just at the moment when you're about to do your big number on it.

I'm a producer. I'm a musician. And my job is to come in and, you know, put - you know, I treat all of the artists that I work with, like, you know, the way da Vinci was looking at Mona Lisa, you know, there's an interesting backdrop.

I want to be treated like a musician.

One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound.

I consider myself to be an entertainer, given that I'm most known as MGK "the rapper" I don't have a problem with the label, I just want the people to know that I am much more than that.

At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.

I feel like when you're an artist and you first come out - people don't want you to be as creative as you could possibly be as a musician. More so they really want you to stick to something.

If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.

Nathaniel is not a mentally ill musician, as I have been referring to him, but a musician with mental illness. It's a subtle but significant difference, recognizing the person before the illness.

Nathaniel is not a mentally ill musician, as I have been referring to him, but a musician with mental illness. It's a subtle but significant difference, recognizing the person before the condition.

I'm a self-loathing slide player. Some people like the way I play slide - I hate it.

And they kind of left to find a guitar player at the very end, so you know, I don't really take it as any slight that I wasn't able to play on the record. It's flattering just to play with them period.

Slowly, over time, I learned enough that I started considering myself a musician, where I actually knew how to play instruments. But still, when I talk to my real musician friends, they're calling chords out, and I have no idea what they're talking about.

When you live in a small country such as Israel, the dream of any musician is to go abroad.

The thing about a small town is that there are people who just remember me as a musician, as a high school football player.

Being in The Fall isn't like being in another group. It isn't a holiday. A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren't as smart as me.

I want to be 'Jimmy Chamberlin, the drummer, the musician who's done many things,' not just 'that guy from the Smashing Pumpkins.'

I met musician Ken Farmer in Lorne and he lent me all of his Bessie Smith blues LPs. That's when I started to sing.