Quotes About Musician

In my opinion it's preferable for me to be a musician with an out-of-tune lyre or a choir-leader with a cacophonous choir, and it's preferable for almost everyone in the world to find my beliefs misguided and wrong, rather than for just one person - me - to contradict and clash with myself.

I think - actually, I know - that I am, without a doubt, the world's worst drummer.

I was the same kind of father as I was a harpist - I played by ear.

When I was younger, I was always a musician that could play by ear better than I could analytically.

My ears are shot. I'm a musician.

Of all the people that I got a chance to meet as I was growing up, probably one of the most famous was Eddie Peabody. I saw him live in person when I was just a child, and that excited me to want to learn more.

My family didn't want me to be a musician, and therefore, they never helped out in my efforts.

I play acoustic when I need to play acoustic, and I say I'm probably a better acoustic player than I am electric.

There is something embarrassing about asking for money, but if I hadn't done that, I would have not continued to be a professional musician.

I'm in showbusiness. I'm an entertainer.

I was an entertainer, ever since I was a kid.

My mom is a great entertainer.

I'm an entertainer - that's what I do.

There are entertainers and there are musicians, and I never was an entertainer.

Becoming a musician was all about escape. It was about getting away from the foulness that was me.

I come to America because if you're a rock 'n' roll musician you should come here every chance you get.

I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.

Why can't a musician try to make a cinematic "state of the nation" poem told through dream imagery and pop music? They may fail miserably or they may fluke a masterpiece, but at least they tried to push their creativity. As Howard Devoto, of the bands Buzzcocks and Magazine, put it: "Pretentiousness is interesting. At least you're making an effort. Your ambition has to outstrip your ability at some point.

Bass players are always the underdogs of the band, but I made sure that I was never viewed as one. I went out of my way to steal as much limelight as I could.

I guess, at the end of the day, I want to be viewed as a musician.

I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments.

In the musician, there is a tendency to have a narrowness. It's all compartmentalized. I am playing the violin; that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

I do use an electric violin. Actually, my regular electric violin, which I sometimes use, is by Ned Steinburger.

I sang and played keyboard, so I was virtually a statue at the back of the stage. I'm not complaining about that; I enjoyed that role.