Quotes of: Musician Keyword

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.

Sufjan Stevens

I don't hate being compared with female musicians. I don't mind that at all. I have no problem with seeing connections between women's work.

Ani DiFranco

We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it.

Engleby

The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones.

Nick Lowe

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Bonnie Raitt

I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It made life a lot easier knowing what I was aiming for.

Dan Hawkins

Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and progressive.

Noel Gallagher

I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.

Serj Tankian

I'm inspired by artists and musicians. There are so many wonderful and talented people in the world. I love discovering new music, new writers, or new art.

Alicia Keys

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.

Dar Williams

All musicians need a day job in the beginning. Unless they still live with their parents, I guess. I'm just lucky that my day job is simply another form of art.

Hal Sparks

The musician has the most brothers, and the dancer the most sisters.

HerStory: Fiction Honoring Women's History Month

All people are musicians" Wit countered. "The question is whether or not they share their songs.

Words of Radiance

The best part of touring is playing the shows. I mean, that is the point of touring, at least for me. I have been blessed in that I've always gotten to play with other good musicians.

Buzz Osborne

There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music.

Miroslav Vitous

I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.

Natalie Merchant

We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.

Oscar Peterson

When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all.

Steve Lacy

I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for.

Stephen Malkmus

Well, I started out as a musician, so when I was about 10 years old, I was already in a band.

Tommy Chong

I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a musician, as an artist, record producer, you name it.

Kenny Chesney