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If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. -- Albert Einstein
Musician' is not a very respected title. I'm not a musician. -- Lydia Lunch
My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter. -- Sufjan Stevens
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master. -- Duke Ellington
Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts. -- Billy Joel
Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. -- Louis Armstrong
I'm a producer for fun. I'm not a professional schooled musician or anything. -- Afrojack
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. -- Leopold Stokowski
I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players. -- David Bowie
Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician. -- Jeff Cooper
I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Music itself is not going to let you down. -- Virgil Thomson
The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers. -- Roy Ayers
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians. -- Frank Zappa
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. -- Harry Connick, Jr.
Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear. -- Ralph Ellison
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. -- Abraham Maslow
When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level -- Brian Greene
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
Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest. -- Kinky Friedman
If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician. -- Buddy Rich
As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something thats never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish. -- Charlie Haden
I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it. -- Nat King Cole
I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours. -- Ed Sheeran
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
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
I have never imagined doing anything other than football, but now, thinking about it coldly, if I hadn't been a footballer, I would have been a musician. -- Ronaldinho
As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is. -- Flea
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
When you act, you've got to be like a poet or a musician. It's not about evidence before court. It's not a forensic subject. It's poetry; it's a completely different place. -- Rhys Ifans
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
Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life. -- Billy Joel
For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy. -- Maurice Ravel
Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers. -- Billy Joel
You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them. -- Etta James
No disrespect to any other god, but Shiva's an outsider god. He breaks the rules. He's a brilliant musician, a brilliant dancer; he treats his wife as an equal, and she opposes him many times, but he obsessively loves her. -- Amish Tripathi
Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer. -- Aaron Johnson
If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not? -- Robert Fripp
I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come. -- Jerry Garcia
Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization. -- Abraham Maslow
Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament. -- Marilyn Monroe
But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music. -- Yo-Yo Ma
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
Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music. My sister takes her ideas and fashions them into poems. My brother uses his ideas to help him understand science. I take my ideas and turn them into stories. -- Avi
Every musician, their goal in life is to play music that people love, and I've accomplished my goal. I was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and left that chapter of my life and those people in the past. Good and bad, I've loved and am thankful for that chapter. -- Steven Adler
Remember this, son, if you forget everything else. 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. Music touches their hearts directly no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens. -- Patrick Rothfuss
I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons. I didn't like the lessons very much, but I was enchanted by music. Music always transported me somewhere. Singing made feel good and being able to play the piano made me feel good. -- Billy Joel
I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond all doubt that we are master musicians of our instruments. Now what we have to do is employ our skill to tell the dramatic story of our people and what we've been through, -- Max Roach
I don't really like to call myself a brand, and I don't like to think of myself as a brand. I'm a singer, a songwriter, a musician and a performer. And an actress, and all the other things that I do. When you add it all together, some might call it a brand, but that's not my focus. -- Beyonce Knowles
Interestingly, I matured as a musician and as an artist before I matured as a man. What I mean by that is, I was ready to be completely vulnerable and honest with myself and unapologetic when it comes to how I express myself in my medium. But I wasn't as secure in doing that when it came to just being myself. -- Miguel
I don't know if One Direction will stand the test of time. I have a niece who goes crazy for them. But the only way to judge art is to wait and see if it becomes evergreen. This takes a bit of time. Adele is a very good musician and I'd like to sing with her. But, again, time will tell if her music will become evergreen. -- Andrea Bocelli
I'm basically a musician. -- Squarepusher
Mose Allison is a beautiful musician. -- Willie Dixon
Denise Donatelli is a musician's singer! -- Phil Woods
Everything is music for the born musician. -- Romain Rolland
The sexiest woman musician is Alicia Keys. -- Pharrell Williams
I confess to being a frustrated musician. -- Stella McCartney
Being an American musician means being adventurous. -- Michael Tilson Thomas
I was a musician first before anything. -- Jencarlos Canela
Practice like good musician; draw every day. -- Sergei Bongart
Jay Ashby is simply a great musician! -- Paul Simon
Being a musician is a noble profession. -- Paul Weller
Who told you I was a musician? -- Leon Redbone
Feed the musician, and he's out of tune. -- George Crabbe
[Bach is the] reason I became a musician -- Glenn Gould
Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer. -- Debbie Harry
I've never been a jam-band sort of musician. -- Tom DeLonge
I'd rather be a musician than a rockstar. -- George Harrison
I'm not a musician, I just play bass. -- Bill Wyman
A poet is a musician who can't sing. -- Patrick Rothfuss
I'm not a musician - I'm a ham. -- Ozzy Osbourne
I'm just a musician and a record producer. -- Quincy Jones
I'm a painter first, and a musician second. -- Joni Mitchell
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Music comes from the musician, not the instrument. -- Victor Wooten
You're a musician: You play. That's what you do. -- Lou Reed
You're a musician, it is important that you suffer! -- Russell Brand
To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence. -- Keith Richards
Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician. -- Henry Rollins
Combing my hair doesn't make me a better musician. -- Ritchie Blackmore
My only ambition is to grow as a musician. -- Jamie Cullum
I never really thought about becoming a professional musician. -- John Mayall
As a musician usually music is your way out. -- Damon Albarn
I always knew I wanted to be a musician. -- Jonny Lang
I like Flea, I like him as a musician. -- Ziggy Marley
In my view a jazz musician is a great musician. -- Michael Parkinson
I am a musician, but I'm another type of musician. -- Sun Ra
Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician. -- Kurt Vonnegut
The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts. -- Bobby McFerrin
Love, the supreme musician, is always playing in our souls -- Rumi
Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden! -- Toots Thielemans
Every musician liked Peggy Lee, but not the general public. -- Mel Ferrer
To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good. -- Cy Coleman
There's more to being a musician than just making music. -- Burning Spear
I've made a life and career as a professional musician. -- Melissa Auf der Maur
A musician cannot move others unless he, too, is moved. -- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
An entrepreneur is like a musician creating a new song. -- Ehab Atalla
As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish. -- Rickie Lee Jones
An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician. -- Brian Cox
I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer. -- Kailash Kher
I'm not a singer. I'm a musician, which is different. -- Tracie Bennett
I don't wave a flag for anything. I'm a musician. -- Keith Richards
I've been a musician longer than I've been an actor. -- Jamie Campbell Bower
I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician. -- Johnny Winter
I am a musician, ya know; music is my world. -- Stephen Marley
I did everything I could to not be a musician -- Dhani Harrison
In my view a jazz musician is a great musician -- Michael Parkinson
The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. -- Louis Armstrong
I'm a great songwriter, but I'm not the most talented musician. -- Noel Gallagher
I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician. -- Patti Smith
KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask. -- Carlos Santana
If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot -- Natalie Portman
It was like a musician playing notes. Everything we trained worked. -- Wladimir Klitschko
I suppose I would still be a communicator, maybe a musician. -- Conrad Hall
To be a drummer you also have to be a musician. -- Ian Paice
A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught -- Buddy Rich
If I wasn't a musician, I would be a serial killer. -- GG Allin
I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale. -- Elvis Costello
If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop. -- Siobhan Fahey
As a musician, I have always refrained from criticizing another artist. -- Jill Sobule
I've also become much more the musician I've always wanted to be. -- John Fogerty

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