You can't really label me as a musician, a comedian, or a rapper - you know, it's different.

- Awkwafina

It was clear from the beginning that I was going to be a musician.

- Andrew Gold

If you're a musician, you're a musician; you don't ever get that out of your bones.

- Alex Clare

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

- Andy Grammer

As a musician, you just want to be able to do what you love.

- Andy Grammer

We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It seemed like an interesting idea to go right back 100 years to find the source of some new ideas now.

- Anne Dudley

One day, a musician asked me what I did. When I told him I was to be a businessman, he laughed and said, 'You are not a businessman.' Sometimes all it takes is one person to put an important thought in your head, and he did.

- Alexander Hanson

I'm a compulsive musician, but it's also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else.

- Alexis Korner

I think you could go back to any filmmaker or musician or artist, and look at what their input was in their formative years, and you could trace all the lines.

- Andrew Stanton

Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.

- Alvin Lee

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

- Albert Einstein

I came out to L.A. in '78 to be a musician. I didn't get into comedy until the mid-Eighties.

- Andy Kindler

The fact that I wasn't expected to read music at all and was absorbing everything by ear... it had a huge affect on the kind of musician that I became.

- Andrew Bird

I'm a DJ, but I'm also a ridiculously high-grossing musician due to doing productions.

- Afrojack

I'm a producer for fun. I'm not a professional schooled musician or anything.

- Afrojack

America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.

- Adam Mansbach

It's important to be a divergent musician and do a little bit of everything, except you have to make sure your fans are aware of it and that you string them along the right way.

- Ansel Elgort

I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman.

- Amy Grant

While my mother wanted me to be a musician, I wanted to become an electronic engineer.

- A. R. Rahman

I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu