#musician

Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician. ↗

— Jeff Cooper

#armed #guitar #handgun #make #makes

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#creates #ear #him #his #i

Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#done #get #honest #late #lot

I wouldn't like to be in movies. Movie people are strange. They live a different life than musicians do. ↗

— Stevie Nicks

#i #life #like #live #movie

It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible. ↗

— Billy Joel

#hard #impossible #living #make #musician

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life. ↗

— Billy Joel

#always #around #artist #contemporary #contemporary life

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers. ↗

— Billy Joel

#different #drummers #experience #high #high wire

Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself. ↗

— Billy Joel

#causes #charitable #creation #give #humanitarian

Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand. ↗

— Billy Joel

#family #good #like #musicians #other

Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are. ↗

— Billy Joel

#about #because #being #chose #doubts