#musician

When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music. ↗

— Tom Petty

#been #bell #decided #done #giving

A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don't feel great about, and it'll make you feel so bad it'll destroy you and kill you. ↗

— Iggy Pop

#bad #destroy #feel #get #great

I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie. ↗

— Molly Ringwald

#band #coast #father #first #friend

Musicians playing together, it's a conversation, and ideally I want our conversation to be really intriguing and interesting and beautiful. ↗

— Chris Robinson

#conversation #i #ideally #interesting #intriguing

Now as a musician, if you have it within you, you can create your own reality. Believe me, it's a novelty. ↗

— Chris Robinson

#create #me #musician #novelty #now

The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#magazines #music #musicianship #nothing #played

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#good #i #jazz #later #mainstream

The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#air #bad #careers #enough #filled

I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not. ↗

— Luther Allison

#come #how #i #look #many

I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think. ↗

— Gavin Rossdale

#bloody #got #hard #hard work #harder