Musician Quotes

Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.

For some musicians it becomes self-reflexive to think, “I have to write some of my kind of songs now.”

I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that was that.

I’m not a good enough musician to like completely master something in a couple of days and turn it around.

I wouldn’t buy somebody’s album on a dare if they called him a musician’s musician. I don’t write to be a writer’s writer. I don’t want to be like the little-magazine writer.

Musicians don’t retire; they stop when there’s no more music in them.

If I wasn’t a musician… I think I’d just be endlessly traveling.

My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.

I’m in a position I never imagined I’d be in as a musician. Bob Dylan built an audience through recording and live shows. The opportunities for an artist today are totally different.

Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept.