The creative process for a musician is very different than for a filmmaker. I have an idea, and I can pretty much… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
All comics want to be musicians. There's a part of me that wants to be a serious musician. I love songs about… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I don't like heroin, unless you're a jazz musician and then you have to be on it because jazz is the sound… — John Waters Copy Share Image
It is just that heavy metal musicians write in minor keys, and when you do that, you frighten people. — Ronnie James Dio Copy Share Image
My new year's resolution: Never be afraid to be kicked in the teeth. Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy. — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics. — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
It is not a profession to be a pianist and musician. It is a philosophy, a conception of life that cannot be… — Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Copy Share Image
As a musician or a performer, you're meant to know what you're about, but it's ridiculous that someone 14 would have any… — Ben Lee Copy Share Image
Of course, we also have to play in concert halls. This is our dream when you are a musician - to play… — Gustavo Dudamel Copy Share Image
I'm fortunate I have this coterie of musicians around me to help take music to next level. Being surrounded by so much… — Duncan Sheik Copy Share Image
Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
I'm just opening the doors. And a lot of this is new to me - thinking about it, and letting go again… — Jane Siberry Copy Share Image
Session musicians kind of respected me because what I was talking about made sense. That all came from an education. Believe me,… — Bobby Vinton Copy Share Image
I'm a country musician. I know how to play jazz, and I can play rock. But I've had to fight my entire… — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
I grew up in a home filled with music and had an early appreciation of jazz since my dad was a jazz… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
If they think they are doing something new, they ought to do what I do every day - spend at least two… — Coleman Hawkins Copy Share Image
I have a theory that musicians recognize each other and if they are destined to collaborate together they will. Mainly, they recognize… — Vlatko Stefanovski Copy Share Image
You were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid — things you liked — on the… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
I want to be just a musician and songwriter, and hopefully known as a very good one. I love a lot of… — Langhorne Slim Copy Share Image
A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you listen, anybody… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
My identity shifted when I got into # recovery . That's who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
People always say that music is a universal language. It was very, very true. We could show up anywhere with any people… — Jherek Bischoff Copy Share Image
