I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.
Virgil Thomson
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Feed the musician, and he's out of tune.
George Crabbe
He's probably the most interesting musician I've met in the last 10 years. You can write anything for him, and he can play it.
Stanley Clarke
A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.
Charlie Trotter
[In addition,] onstage, he's so clearly a generous musician, ... He is so clearly working for you, the audience. The people really appreciate his efforts.
Jim O'connell
This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something. He doesn't have confidence in himself or else he doesn't believe in what he's doing.
Betty Carter
Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother were both musicians and so I'm a musician. It was just natural that I should be a musician 'cause I was born into the family.
Sam Rivers
I have had many wonderful opportunities, ... My life as a musician didn't end when Helmet broke up. I just started to explore.
Page Hamilton
MINSTREL, adj. Formerly a poet, singer or musician; now a nigger with a color less than skin deep and a humor more than flesh and blood can bear.
Ambrose Bierce
Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.
Jeff Cooper
It gives us a really good opportunity to find highly qualified applicants for (the Musician Enlisted Options Program).
Paul Miller
Never tust a musician or a man named Roger.
Bill Balance
There's not a serious musician I know who wasn't hooked on this music since childhood.
Joseph Giunta
Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.
Andy Richter
Miles Davis was revolutionary as a jazz musician and as an artist he was eclectic as well. He tried it all.
Rudy Siegel
It would be hard to be a singer, musician or have ears and not be an admirer of my dad, ... I can only say that now that I'm older, because growing up, I thought I was biased. I thought it was just me. Now I see that he left his mark on the world.
Lalah Hathaway
Very talented but very dedicated, accomplished musician. The way he goes about his music business, he looks at this as a business. He wants to become a professional player and he acts that way.
Don Rogers
She played the saxophone and was taking piano lessons too. She was a good musician.
Michelle Wood
It's a hip-hop record, but it's a musician-based hip-hop record.
Mike Shinoda
I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician.
Frankie Avalon
If Charlie had gone on, he would have been right at the top. He was a great musician.
Dick Smith
It's very exciting. To me, he's someone who is a big-name musician that can bring other musicians along.
Chris Kelley
When I saw them leave a black ghetto and become international superstars, in my mind there was no other way to go. That was it. I had to be a musician - that's how I got into music.
Jerry Brookings
If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.
Robert A. Schumann
I started studying some music, trying to grow as a musician in Hollywood.
Jerry Brookings
Stravinsky said that composition is selective improvisation, meaning that the same kernel of an idea that you have up on the stand as a jazz musician is the same one you write down as a composer.
Chris Brubeck
I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
Bruce Jenner
A model wears clothes and looks good, which is very passive. It's not like a musician promoting a new album. You don't have to read about it.
Peter Andre
The two of them make the ultimate model and musician couple.
Monica Mitro
You could always see that Alex was going to be in music, ... He never understands that question, 'What would you be if you weren't a musician?' .
Paul Thomson
Everybody was in a band in those days, and my father was a professional musician, so it was kind of expected that I would become a musician.
Peter Noone
I had just seen the movie 'Young Man With a Horn' about jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke. So I told him I'd take one of those.
Chuck Mangione
I'm still a huge fan of Mike Nesmith. I think he's a great musician.
David Morreale
Finding a good bus driver can be as important as finding a good musician.
Reba Mcentire
My day job is as a lawyer and I enjoy my job very much. But I think I've known for most of my life that in my heart, I'm a musician and music is what really drives me.
Geoff Pemble
A deeper musician because of this.
David Zinman
He use to come here once and a while, but he was a musician and you know kept pretty much to himself.
Daniel Gomez
May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life.
James Joseph Sylvester
I think that he was amazingly raw at the time. He's such an incredible musician that he's able to put his emotions into music in such a way that the audience can feel it instinctively. It goes right through you.
Pattie Boyd
The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.
Bobby Mcferrin
He's a master musician. He's a genius on the keyboards and a visionary as far as the ground work he laid with P-Funk.
Geoff Vaughan
He is not all musician; he is also part bus conductor in charge of a moving vehicle [who] dutifully hurries people off and onto it at designated intervals.
Christopher Andreae
Lisa Marie Presley was married to musician and producer Michael Lockwood on January 22, 2006.
Paul Bloch
You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when you're not making money, people think that you're a good jazz musician.
Pete Fountain
I approach my work musically a lot in terms of the way maybe a jazz musician would approach an improvisation on a theme.
Andy Garcia
Jess brought business savvy from outside the concert business to the concert business. But he also loved the music, because his daughter was a musician.
Danny Zelisko
About 25 percent of the people who come to the concerts are personal friends or my musician friends. And about 60 percent have been here before. Many come here an hour before the concert to help me set up.
Sally Anderson
I grew up loving a lot of English bands, ... That has a huge effect on you. If I was listening to hip-hop as opposed to Morrissey when I was 13, I would probably be a very different musician. But that's what I was drawn to when I was growing up.
Brandon Flowers
I never thought of being a musician as a proper career.
Laura Cantrell
The book that I'm writing - it's to do with my life as a musician and writer and the spiritual side of my life.
Dave Davies
I grew up in Baton Rouge and learned to be a musician down there [in New Orleans]. I call it the only city in America that has its own brand of music.
Randy Jackson
I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.
Billy Sherwood
It isn't easy making a living as a musician. Most of us aren't making a lot of money doing this.
Jonatha Brooke
I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.
Bobby Mcferrin
It is natural to have your favorite actor or actress or musician or composer. But India is the only place where we fight over it.
Ravi Shankar
He is a great kid who has grown into a fine musician in a short time. He is always focused on his work. I wish there were more like him.
Cristine Evans
I've dated the sweet mama's boy, the musician rocker, the struggling artist - basically a lot of people without jobs.
Alyssa Milano
I was talking to another musician.
Alex Kapranos
Mike was a great bass player. But we had no idea what he was destined for, in all honesty. He was just a blues enthusiast who was in our circle of musician friends in San Diego.
Kevin Morrow
All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.
John Coltrane
She's a very good musician. She's got a great attitude and she's a hard worker. She's a very positive and happy young lady.
Scott Anderson
It's just a horror. He was a great musician and a great songwriter.
Mark Roebuck
It's a story that has not been told, the story of the daily musician.
Eugene Rodriguez
How can a profoundly deaf person become a musician?
Evelyn Glennie
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