I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.

I don't consider myself to be a great musician, but my first album was a record hit in Pakistan.

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.

The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did.

I love anyone who breaks the rules, and musicians always break the rules - in an aggressive way.

I think all musicians should understand that you have chosen not to be a soldier but a musician.

The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape.

I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff.

Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.

Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer.

Music speaks from spirit to spirit and in that sense you could call it a true spiritual language.

Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.

I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.

Painters can study the masters can't they? Musicians can hear Beethoven. What will filmmakers do?

I'm always writing and learning. It's about growth. So I'm growing as a musician, as a guitarist.

I just consider myself lucky that I've been a musician this long and not had to find another job.

Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.

Stereotyping and generating brands around musicians I think contributes to their eventual demise.

[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.

I don't do album covers or CD covers for groups or musicians I don't like or have no interest in.

I think filmmakers all secretly wanna be musicians and all musicians secretly wanna be filmmakers.

Instead of going to college, I spent my time out on the road learning how to be a better musician.

People who have gone, are still here, in us. Places we came from, are carried to the places we go.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.

He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz.

...The key to playing with any group is you listen all the time and you listen more than you play.

David Bowie's my favorite musician. I love him above all, but I'm really into rap a lot right now.

If I wasn't a musician, I'd take up the law. They are the rottenest, wealthiest people in America.

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

A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.

I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way.

I've always done a few things at once. I've always been a musician and an actor, at the same time.

But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him.

The goal as a musician, I think, is to be able to make music as a living for the rest of your life.

[Slogan of her 'Trouble Bureau' for needy artists and musicians:] Happiness is a change of trouble.

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

As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.

I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.

You don't find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn't mean to say you can't be really good.

Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.

I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians.

I did art; I made furniture. I didn't want to be a cliche - the Beatle's son who became a musician.

In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.

I have been a provoker and I'll probably always be one in the public arena for the rest of my life.

Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.

I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.

I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked.

When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.

One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound.

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