Quotes About Musician

I don't come from a musical family at all, but I realized early on I was a musician. I started begging for a piano when I was 6 years old.

My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five.

My father was a musician and wanted me to study piano. I had no interest.

I basically am the only musician in my family. My aunt plays a little piano, but that's about it. My dad's mother painted and was actually good at it. I do not come from a long line of musicians, though.

A female piano player is always pretty cool to me.

Paul Sinha is a very good piano player and singer.

I think I'm a very poor piano player.

My mom is the piano player in my dad's church - she's also the choir director - and she's just a musician through and through.

I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.

I feel like you're not a real musician or entertainer if you can't go into a room, pick up an instrument and entertain people.

We then went through the audition process and picked a guy named Richard Campbell and he is no secret to L.A. players as he was with Natalie Cole for years and Three Dog Night.

It's too easy to unconsciously echo another novelist's voice while reading fiction, a habit of mimicry I probably picked up as a musician.

I'm a big believer that an actor should be able to pick up any piece of material and act it, the way a good musician can.

There's still a lot I need to do as a player, as a musician, as a sound creator. I have commissioned 170 pieces: that's still not enough, there are still lots and lots of composers I would like to approach. When I see a composer and I see a performer, I think to combine those forces.

For artists, looking back in time for ideas is commonplace, but there's an overwhelming sense of '70s and '80s nostalgia in California musician Ariel Pink's music. It's impossible to separate 'Round and Round' from the anachronism, and there's no loving one without loving the other.

I am a troubadour, a wandering minstrel.

I never really had male influences in my life. Steady, male influences. And that's what I wanna be for my family. As a musician, I definitely will attain everything that I set out to. I work very hard. But more important to me is that my family is taken care of.

I'm in road-coma at the moment. But it's OK. I think you subliminally become a junkie of being on the road. As much as you think you're burnt out, the minute you get off you go stir crazy and you just wanna go right back.

As a musician, I don't wanna put out political soundbites.

I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.

Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make me go up in front of people at parties to sing. Back then, as a kid, I was mortified. In retrospect, I see that doing that as a child helped me get over my fear of being in front of people.

I have always wanted to become a musician and a singer.

Actually, 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.

I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff.