Musician Life Quotes

I think that it's crucial. I think that playing live, if you want to be an artist - that's what artists do.

When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.

I've been a musician my whole life. I'm really enjoying making music again.

I think it's just an awkward time right now to be a musician.

I've been singing and playing the guitar ever since I can remember.

When you're a musician, a lot of time people help you out; they take pity on you. Family members will kind of come around and are like, 'Listen, I bought you a bunch of groceries because I know that you're a screwup.'

I started out with the guitar and was a studio musician back in the 50s, and then got shot in my finger.

I pretty much live on my tour bus.I do well around 300 shows a year. A lot of times I will do two shows a night.

When you've travelled for 34 years as a musician, you do all the culture stuff when you're young and full of energy. In the middle stage, you indulge too much and are scared of daylight. Then, in the final stage, you've seen it all, so you tend to take things a lot easier.

When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.

Being a musician is a job - it is just a really fun one!

I'd go to the farmers' market in Santa Barbara, and I'd put out my guitar case, and I'd test out these little ditty songs that I would write, and I would get a couple of avocados, a bag of pistachios, and, like, fifteen bucks. That was a lot of money for me.

I lived at the greatest time in the history of mankind to be a musician.

I was in a band called Hooker for a while.

I think the hardest part for musicians is what a wide gulf of time there is between when you decide to sober up and when you have the ability to navigate being social and having relationships and being in a band and having friends while sober.

I live, breathe, and sleep guitars.

I write music every day.

I laughed at Willie Nelson, wondering why he spends all his life on that tour bus. And I look at myself, and I'm sitting in airplanes half the time.

I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.

Touring with King Crimson wasn't a lot of fun for me. I had a lot of equipment, and when I was in improvised music I'd set it up myself, play the gig, and put it all away again.

I have had some amazing experiences as a musician - even with my modest skills.

I was pretty scared of the idea as a younger person of being a musician on the road. It didn't occur to me as a possibility.

I go through periods listening to specific types of music. Because I'm a musician, listening to music is... it's a bit like work for me. A little bit.

For those two years in college I was constantly singing and writing and playing in coffee houses and stuff.

Touring is my favorite part of being a musician. All the places I've traveled and lived affect me in many different ways. Good and bad.