Musician's Role Quotes

Musicians are like a preacher, a teacher, an actor. You are the mediator who can transfer the energy of beautiful music to the others.

Music is my life. The things that people do don't seem interesting to me at all - going out to bars, carrying on, going to parties. What the hell do people do? Shop? Play golf? Have vacations? That doesn't seem interesting to me. To me, my job as a musician is to be a good receptor. A lot of music comes through me.

I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.

Bob Marley was always ready to deal with the politics of what was happening in the world but, at the same time, not lose sight of the fact that he's a musician.

I don't view myself as a musician anymore - I view myself as a human being that functions as a musician when I'm functioning as a musician, but that's not 24 hours a day. That's really opened me up to even more perspectives because now I look at music, not from the standpoint of being a musician, but from the standpoint of being a human being.

Because when you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in their face after they deliver monumental feats of music, you're disrespectful to inspiration, and we as musicians have to inspire people who go to work every day, and they listen to that Beyonce album and they feel like it takes them to another place.

I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.

I'm a songwriter; that's where it starts. I love writing with someone that shares that same feeling of accomplishment. I'll play music for my fans as long as they'll listen, but I fancy myself as a writer first.

I always thought of myself as more of a rhythm player than a big soloist.

As a musician, I don't wanna put out political soundbites.

Musicians used to be way more instrumental just in providing a soundtrack to what's going on in the world. And it's also important to state what we think. There's like this fear for their career, if they have anything intelligent to say about politics. And that's really messed up.

I was approached by Oxfam to go to Mali as their ambassador and get involved in their various initiatives out there. But I felt that was missing the point of using me, a musician.

The music industry is quite brutal and quite harsh and can be spirit shattering, but it's an honour to be a musician because your job is to make sure people enjoy themselves; to make people forget about their troubles.

I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.

I think all musicians should understand that you have chosen not to be a soldier but a musician.

The concern of the musician is to play the music. It is there demanding to be given sound to.

We are in a position, as musicians, to touch the souls of those who listen.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm just a guitar player, and my job is to go out there and play and entertain and do my thing.

To be a good musician, you need to give people what they want, what they need.

What I like about being a musician is that I find the thing soothing, but I also give the soothing to other people.

A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.

Musicians own music because music owns them.

I am not a composer of music; I sing pieces which have been written for me which gives me bigger freedom to search for pieces I want to record.

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.

I hope that I am, in a way, helping and touching other people with my music, and being a musician and having this as a job gives me a sense of purpose beyond my own selfish needs.