Musician Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

I'd rather be moved by something, than impressed by something. — Nate Ruess

The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore. — Green Day

If a musician wants to become a fine artist, he must first become a finer person. — Shinichi Suzuki

We are here as a reminder that the world is not better off without you. — Frank Iero

To do something that you feel in your heart that's great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that's successful is a series of mistakes. — Green Day

You can't change the wind but you can set your sails. — Green Day

Truth grows gradually in us, like a musician who plays a piece again and again until suddenly he hears it for the first time — Anne Michaels

Words to a writer is like notes to a musician, both know when they are off key. — June Davidson

I don't claim to be the best musician. If being the best means I earn the right to look down on people and critique their accomplishments in defense of my own, I don't ever want to be. People can say what they want about my music being 'banal' and my skill level 'competent,' and it will hurt my feelings (because despite what some believe, I do still have them), but I won't let it determine my self-worth. — Lindsey Stirling

Ellie: "What was your favourite food before root beer floats were invented?"
Will: "I dont know. Food was terrible before people started putting lots of chemicals and artifiacal flavours into it to make it taste better. I guess Ive always like carrots a lot."
Ellie: "Carrots?" "Your other favourite food is carrots? What is wrong with you? — Countney Allison Moulton

Who can say which is the greater sign of creative power, the sun with its planet system swinging with governed impetus to some incalculable end, or the gold sallow catkin with its flashing system of little flies? — Mary Webb

When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true — Michael Jackson

Music is always a healer. Music has never let me down. I know it's my religion. There's the idea that you can't truly know happiness until you know sadness, so how can you heal yourself unless you've hurt yourself? I'm still figuring out who I am, but I know that I'm not who I was. — Brendon Urie

I wasn't born with enough middle fingers. — Marilyn Manson

When you play music you discover a part of yourself that you never knew existed. — Bill Evans

People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them. — Franz Grillparzer

While I am so afraid to fail so I won't even try,
Well how can I say I'm alive. — Dido

I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation. — Criss Jami

When you're younger - duh - you don't really have the tools to deal with certain things in your life. — Scott Ian

I am first and foremost a musician, although those of us who live elsewhere still dream about the inspirational qualities of Australia and its ravishing transcendental beauty. — Roger Woodward

I was so self-critical. I still am; but it's not as bad anymore. — Fiona Apple

I can't sing "I Believe I Can Fly". I sing that horrible. But I can sing "I Gotta Feeling" good. I wrote it for my capabilities. So I Gotta Feeling is just about let me make a song to inspire people to have a good time. — Will.i.am

The one I can't imagine anyone taking seriously, but was one of my favorites, was the mesh football jersey top, paired with a really short pair of athletic shorts. — Tyler Hoechlin

The musician has the most brothers, and the dancer the most sisters. — Alexandra Chauran

Personally, I'm afraid of suffering and afraid of dying. I'm also afraid of witnessing the suffering and death of those who are close to me. And no doubt I project these fears on those around me and those to come, which makes it impossible for me to understand why everyone isn't an antinatalist, just as I have to assume pronatalists can't understand why everyone isn't like them. — Thomas Ligotti

St. Triduana devoted herself to God in a solitary life at Rescobie in Angus (now Forfarshire). While dwelling there, a prince of the country having conceived an unlawful passion for her is said to have pursued her with his unwelcome attentions. To rid herself of his importunities, as a legend relates, Triduana bravely plucked out her beautiful eyes, her chief attraction, and sent them to her admirer. Her heroism, it is said, procured for her the power of curing diseases of the eyes. — Michael Barrett