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I've had my bubblegum years and I did them well. Now it's time to come back as the woman, artist, and musician that I am without apologizing. — Irene Cara

My name's Darren. I'm a musician, part time idiot. That's a full time job actually. — Darren Criss

An entrepreneur is like a musician creating a new song. — Ehab Atalla

You can't be both a painter and a musician and master anything. You can't. And live a life. — Brian Chippendale

I didn't do music to live; I lived so that I could do music. — Charlotte Eriksson

I think one of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport. — Jon Anderson

To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good. — Cy Coleman

In the day-to-day life of a traveling musician, it's easy to miss so many details. The world goes by at high-speed; it will take your breath away. — Eric Burdon

I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician. — Geddy Lee

I am telling you what I know - words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them. — E.L. Doctorow

I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together. — P. J. Soles

Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing. — Paul Westerberg

There's zero correlation between owning music and being a greater music lover or musician than the next person. — Erol Alkan

Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no difference. — Georgie Fame

The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing. — Buddy Guy

It's funny, there aren't too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There's a few - the really brilliant ones. — Dave Grohl

[Loco De Amor is] a euphoric, melodic romp across the hemisphere ... A joyful, fun musician's record from a really good guitarist — Jon Pareles

But God has a few of us to whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know. — Robert Browning

I guess in this culture of ever-shortening attention spans, it's good if a song can lift us out of the madness, even if only for a few minutes. — Peter Bradley Adams

Not all musicians believe in god but they all believe in Bach — Mauricio Kagel

I had a degree in economics but also thought of myself as a musician. — Jon Feltheimer

I wanted to be a singer. I wanted to be a musician. I wanted to travel and write songs and be a good songwriter. It came to me slowly after college. — Brett Dennen

The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel. — Wynton Marsalis

Kenny Burrell is a great musician and his music has helped to make me what I am today. — Stevie Wonder

I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think. — Gavin Rossdale

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one. — Tony Visconti

I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point. — Peabo Bryson

Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am. — Herbie Hancock

A lot of my friends are musicians or artists, and their talent always pushes me to think creatively. — Erin Willett

I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer - I'm going to push myself to do as many things as I can and see where it goes. — Lucas Grabeel

I'm a great songwriter, but I'm not the most talented musician. — Noel Gallagher

An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician. — Brian Cox

I feel like what I'm best at is being a musician and a performer. I want to use that to help people who are good at starting nonprofits. — Kathleen Hanna

The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective. — Melissa Auf Der Maur

Playing an instrument is its own reward.
Cleaning out a spit valve is its own punishment. — Peter James West

Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you. — Green Day

I think the death knell for any musician is getting a job that you like and pays enough that you just stay there forever. — Wesley Schultz

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. — Chris Cornell

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it. — Eminem

A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits. — Mary Astor

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility. — Robert Fripp

It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do. — Zola Jesus

Castles made of sand slip into the sea eventually ~ JIMI HENDRIX, MUSICIAN — Leo Gough

My dad was a musician, and that was his first love, and I think probably, to be really honest, it was my first love as well. — Kim Basinger

She is my musician, and me, I'm her favorite song. — Rudy Francisco

I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwriter. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want. — Justin Townes Earle

As a producer, I like to bring in unexpected voices, unexpected musicians, like Watt and Joey Spampinato of NRBQ. — M. Ward

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

Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made. — Celia Thaxter

I've always been admired as a musician and painter but not spiritual writer, and that's why God's an artist, not priest. — Robin Sacredfire

I still have a hard time just calling myself a musician. If I'm talking to somebody and they ask me what I do, I say I play music ... — Grant Evans

A good musician should say: We can live without air but not without music! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You don't have to be a good musician if you've got certain computer skills. — Daryl Hall

You can't just be a musician; you have to be an entertainer and perform and act just to hit the bar. — Brendon Urie

My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew. — Taryn Manning

In a lot of groups, you can change a musician, and it doesn't mean anything. — Robbie Robertson

Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style. — Gunther Schuller

I am more than what they say I am. — John O'Callaghan

Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do. — Brian Eno

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist. — Brian Eno

A poet is a musician who can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woeful small targets. — Patrick Rothfuss

It is by continuing to put out good work that the artist best shows his gratitude. — Criss Jami

I'm having to cope with the fact that some people might consider me a musician. — Grant Evans

As a young musician, you really want to play. — Susanna Phillips

I'm not a musician, I just play bass. — Bill Wyman

I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn't trust your health to an electrician. — Paul Bley

If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot. — Natalie Portman

I'm not in it for my health. I'm a musician and I wanna live the way I do. — Levon Helm

The main thing a musician would like to do is to give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe. — John Coltrane

My husband is a musician, and 'Paste' is one of his favorite places to be interviewed by. — Claire Coffee

Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else. — Richard Wagner

The hardest thing for a musician to learn is how to play WITH people. That's what made the Basie rhythm section. — Jo Jones

As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty. — Doc Childre

As Branford Marsalis said in a beautiful essay he write upon Clarence's death, C was blessed with 'the power of musical intent. — Bruce Springsteen

We're all weird. — John O'Callaghan

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. — Prince Royce

The music is in minors. — Gwendolyn Brooks

I definitely think of myself as a musician first. — Lucia Micarelli

The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions. — Danger Mouse

A great musician once told me that one should never play a single note without hearing it, feeling that it is true, thinking it beautiful. — Brenda Ueland

If I wasn't a musician, I would be a serial killer. — GG Allin

I am not what I would consider truly a musician. I am an inventor. I am an innovator. — Kanye West

To get involved with the following loves will bring grief to your life style: musician, author and actor. — Daniel Bel-Tempo

The musician has the most brothers, and the dancer the most sisters. — Alexandra Chauran

I like to call myself a 360-degree artist. I'm a musician, but I have other things I do, too. — Rita Ora

When you are so strongly drawn to music, you can't not be a musician. — Debbie Davies

Your uniqueness is your greatest strength, not how well you emulate others. — Simon S. Tam

[Bach is the] reason I became a musician — Glenn Gould

Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums. — Ronald Perelman

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

I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale. — Elvis Costello

One thing I always found hard to stomach over the past few years is that being a DJ or musician is a career opportunity. — Erol Alkan

I wanted to be a writer since I was a little girl - long before I was a musician and a songwriter. — Juliana Hatfield

I consider music to be a service and I am trying to serve the music, the musicians and the audience the best I can at every moment — Jeff Coffin

I'm not trying to save the world. As a musician and artist, it just ain't me. — Curtis Jackson

I know a lot of great musicians that don't know they're even great, because mangers try and make them feel belittled like they're not worth a crap. — Jim "Dandy" Mangrum

I want to be treated like a musician. — Halsey

These spider webs are my home now — Beck

The only thing I had in my mind [when I was 17 ] was that I was going to be a professional musician. So it was just the right environment. — John Petrucci

You can expect nothing in being a musician, and you have to be just very thankful every time it goes positively for you. — Halsey