Musician Role Quotes

I'm one of those controversial celebs or whatever you want to call it, but I am actually a musician - people forget this.

I think if Elon Musk asked me to go to Mars as a musician, to sing for people, I think I might just do that. A return ticket would be a nice incentive, though.

As a musician, to be part of anything that promotes peace is very rewarding.

I'd love to do something where I played a musician.

I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, you know, basically playing a musician, and all the songs she plays are off my record.

I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.

I just get involved in things when people come to me: I'm not a musician-slash-activist, that's not the word.

I sang and played keyboard, so I was virtually a statue at the back of the stage. I'm not complaining about that; I enjoyed that role.

I kind of alternate between conducting and playing and kind of juggling those things, but I don't use a baton.

I feel as a singer and musician, it's my responsibility to talk about social issues, and you will hear about them in my music as well.

I always resented the role of a drummer as nothing more than a subservient figure.

I think a politician would be very, very cool to play. Or an American musician of some sort, or like an American pioneer like the Dohenys or the Rockefellers or something.

Everything has changed since I started recording in 1972. But the very things that have opened this industry, like the digital platforms to reach more people, have also killed things that were happening before in the recording studio. Now, most of the time, there are no real musicians in the studio; it's people with sequencers and things.

I don't know whether you [musician] can be all things to everybody, which is why there are different kinds of music.

That was the producer who produced a couple of my solo albums. He produced my second, third and fourth solo albums. It was his project and I just joined him on it. I sang on one and played bass on another one.

I don't actually like calling myself a rapper. I'm more a performer.

I don't think people go to musicians for their political points of view. I think your political point of view is circumstances and then how you were nurtured and brought up.

I am a singer, first and foremost, but the medium happens to be the cello.

In most of the stuff that I've done over the years as a sideman, I wasn't really a session musician, because to me, a session musician is a guy who makes his living in the studio, and I never really did that.

I'm a little more of a lead instrument in the Meatbats.

I know that drummers tend to be the butt of a thousand jokes, usually from the uninformed and untalented, but I always felt I had an important role.

For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

I don't play guitar. I sing. I'm the lead singer, of Cousin Billy. I also play harmonica, after a fashion.

The only thing I wouldn't like to do is to play roles as a musician. I'm not sure that I would be comfortable doing that, and I'm not sure I'd be very good at it. I think I would be better served, and would be a better partner, if I was in something outside of myself.

Music has always been my first love, and I appreciate how a great musician can bring awareness to tough issues through their work.