Quotes About Musician

Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night.

A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the 'Modifier's Madness.' A lot of adjectives working overtime.

As a musician, I have sung, composed, and played instruments, and a lesser-known fact is that I have composed 20-30 ad jingles as well.

There's very little synthesized sound in the 'Arrival' score. There are a couple of synthesized beats in there, but 99 percent of the sounds in there are acoustic in origin and either played or sung by a musician or a singer and recorded in a room.

I've made my pact with the Lord for the next lifetime. I would love to be a first-class musician. A super one.

I don't like the word 'rock star' or 'super star.' I am a guitar player, a songwriter who got lucky because I stayed at it and didn't give up, long enough that people noticed me.

To seek out, to study, to immerse oneself in, surround oneself with, beauty; to be conscious of one's dependence upon those who create it or, like the performing musician, re-create it. Very little matters apart from this.

But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.

I'm very unstable there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.

You are a mathematician,' John Dee said. 'I am a musician,' said Lymond.

Look at him he's just now getting ready and dressed and its 6 fucking minutes to the show! God fucking musicians.

I didn't want to become a personality, I wanted to be a musician, but because I didn't have an album to stand by yet it was hard for people to see that. But now, two albums in, I'm happy with things.

Robert Johnson? No, I didn't know him, personally.

I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.

Peter Baltes was the best bassist I ever played with.

Liberace was one of the biggest stars in America. He was a kind of a phenomenon.

Phil is a real drummer's drummer.

Phil Rudd from AC/DC was someone I really liked a lot... Not because I was dazzled by his playing ability - he was just a rock, y'know?

I lived a pretty chaotic life. I went to England, and I moved around, and there were a lot of things that I was interested in. I wrote poetry. I took photographs. I was a musician and all sorts of things. Nothing brilliant, but I did all these different things.

I'm not really a pianist.

It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist!

I'm Liberace without a piano.

I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion.

Music will always be there. I own a piano. I have it in my apartment. I play it every day, and I have a lot of musician friends who I play with.