Quotes About Musician

I'm not a virtuoso on an instrument. You know, I'm not always singing in pitch. I laugh sometimes my way through the shows, but I'm an honest songwriter who's always tried to bring the audience with me on my journey in hopes that they see their own lives reflected in the work.

I'm a pretty good drummer. I'm pretty good at guitar, bass and piano. I can play accordion; I'm not virtuoso. I've played cello before. My sister played it, and I know how to play it, but I'm not the best. Violin is kind of the same thing.

Playing live is such a total visceral experience, and really, as a musician, you're trained from the beginning to be a live performer.

Oberst is one of those musicians that some people hate in a visceral, biological way.

As a musician, I can conquer a lot of hearts through my voice, but as a personality, especially in India, there's little visibility.

You need to know what makes artists tick. Having been through the process myself as a musician, since I was an early teen, gave me an advantage - understanding them from their point of view, because it's about them, it's not about you - it's their vision and what they're capable of achieving, and you're the conduit.

Playing a musical instrument gives much pleasure, but more so to the musician.

Dad says that Elvis Presley lived in Memphis and was a musician (not that you would know that from the crap songs that Dad sings). Anyway, he was a musician and Masimo is a musician, ergo Memphis must be somewhere that musicians hang out.

As we passed a bloke playing a saxophone underneath one of the arches, he put down the sax and started doing a juggling thing with his hands. It was a bit peculiar, though, because, as I said to Jas, "He hasn't got any balls.

Music is something that you have to do with your body. You listen with your body. In fact, a good musician has to think with his belly and to feel with his brain. That is very important.

My goal is to live the truly religious life, and express it in my music. If you live it, when you play there's no problem because the music is part of the whole thing. To be a musician is really something. It goes very, very deep. My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.

Over all, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things that he knows of and senses in the universe. . . That Is what I would like to do. I think that Is one of the greatest things you can do in life and we all try to do it in some way. The musicians is through his music

To be a musician is really something. It goes very, very deep. My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being... When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hang-ups.

Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician.

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

I was never going to be a doctor or a lawyer, so being a musician seemed to be the best of what was on offer.

Liberace - or Lee, as us friends called him - was great. He was gay, you know.

Busking taught me so much on so many levels, not just about being a musician or writing songs - actually about growing up and being a human!

Little Walter I would've liked to have played with.

As a little girl, I remember thinking how great it was going to be, to be a musician when I grew up, how I was going make a jazz album, then a country album, then a rock album.

I've always seen myself as a working musician but now there's no money in records for the artist at all, it's all in live performance.

Liberace was a lovely guy.

Luck has a lot to do with being a musician.

Most times, lyrics are the last thing I listen to, being a musician.