Top Musician Quotes
You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
Van Morrison
As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation.
Franz Liszt
There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.
William Kingdon Clifford
My intention when I came into this industry was to be a musician, not necessarily a recording artist, just a musician in general. And that's the reason I went to college and got my degree, which has been great for me. It's helped me a lot with my career.
Jon Secada
Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.
Richard Wagner
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He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard.
Nusrat F. A. Khan 
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Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.
Sean Lennon
40% of people like this quote
When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
Billy Joel
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A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special - spiritually or however you can.
Charlie Byrd
36% of people like this quote
I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.
Gustav Mahler
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A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
Henry Moore
32% of people like this quote
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