Quotes About Musician

I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician.

I prefer to hear an artist's work and what they can do, so as far as I'm concerned, I'd get a lot more out of a collection of songs to be able to understand what the musician is doing.

A good film demands its own score, and if you are a musician, your conscience will never allow you to do something mediocre for a good film.

Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.

A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's attention for two hours.

I started out as a singer and a musician, and I was taught that your job is just to get out of the way of Brahms or Arthur Miller or Shakespeare and convey the brilliance that they created.

I'm a jazz musician in that I have achieved Grade 3 on the French horn.

If you're a musician, you're a musician; you don't ever get that out of your bones.

If I wasn't a musician, I'd take up the law. They are the rottenest, wealthiest people in America.

I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness.

I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way.

You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when you're not making money, people think that you're a good jazz musician.

As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context of other people who have that power also.

I wanted to be a musician, either a guitarist or a drummer. I guess my dreams were in the entertainment industry, and I landed somewhere along there.

The 'Daryl's House' thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.

I'm a completely fearless musician.

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs.

My father was a musician, so I feel like falling into this career was a bit inevitable.

It is important for the musician to learn as much about the composer as possible and to study the music he has written. Then, even a short piece by Brahms or Chopin can be played with much more understanding.

As a Latin musician, I understand that there are so many places where people don't know who I am. My albums never came out in Australia or Japan.

I was always funny, but I wasn't a great musician, and I wanted to be a musician way more than I wanted to be a comic. I just didn't think comedians were cool when I was a kid.

With cab drivers, I always say I'm from Brazil. I don't say I'm from Israel. It's happened more than once that someone is blaming me for the government's policy. And I say, 'Listen, I live here. I'm a musician. I don't call the shots.'

I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.

I consider myself a musician.