Musician Quotes

Never have your wallet with you onstage. It’s bad luck. You shouldn’t play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.

A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.

I wasn’t very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

Everything I hear influences me. I can’t tell you all my influences as a musician.

It is really beautiful, and musical in its poetry.

Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.

Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don’t know what to tell a person that can’t – if you can’t tell a person what you’re talkin’ about when they’re rushin’ or droppin’ the tempo, you get somebody else.

Fondest memory of being a Beatle: Having three brothers.

Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.