The people who make it to the top - whether they're musicians, or great chefs, or corporate honchos - are addicted to… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
The fact that a total of 18 musicians humbly came together to share the glory and create something this original, epic, and… — James Moore Copy Share Image
I had gotten to know the music scene there, and just fell in love with it. I've lived there a little over… — Sarah Jaffe Copy Share Image
I've never been more moved by a voice than I have been by Roy Orbison. I loved him personally, and I loved… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't… — Bryan Adams Copy Share Image
The songs, if I write alone in a room, end up being a little more quiet, a little more subdued. If I… — Marketa Irglova Copy Share Image
America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I visit studios. Just to get the feel, the smell, and see what other people are doing. Not only listening to the… — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
Since the 1980s, I've been known more for my TV work, I used to host 'Live at Jongleurs' and of course 'Grumpy… — Rick Wakeman Copy Share Image
I first came to London as a musician, and when my group broke up, I did 'Guys and Dolls' at the Watford… — Clarke Peters Copy Share Image
People don't get that being a musician is a job, they don't get what the work takes. And that's just because you're… — Kevin Drew Copy Share Image
The creative musician ... is ... the radio receiver, not the broadcasting station. His personal discipline is to improve the quality of… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
Am I in love? Absolutely. I'm in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My advice to women who habitually gravitate toward musicians is that they learn how to play an instrument and start making music… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
Still, I wonder if more women artists, musicians and writers aren't household names because we don't have enough faith in our own… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was never successful in a noteworthy way, no one wrote about me, and I didn't have recognition. I've met a lot… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I read an interview with a Japanese freestyle jazz musician once, and he said something like, "Everything I'm going to tell you… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
I just like dealing with scientists for awhile and then going over and dealing with musicians for awhile. They both have qualities… — Jonathan Meiburg Copy Share Image
In most of the stuff that I've done over the years as a sideman, I wasn't really a session musician, because to… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
I grew up in a classical music household. My dad is a phenomenal musician who can play any and all instruments, can… — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
We have to keep in practice like musicians. Besides, there are still potentialities to be realized in color film. To us, it's… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Musicians used to be way more instrumental just in providing a soundtrack to what's going on in the world. And it's also… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something… — Lesley Gore Copy Share Image
One of the great things about being in a band is that you meet so many other musicians who will turn you… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to… — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
The whole point of working and practicing your whole life is so that you're ready when that moment arrives; when the inspiration… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
But between sets I'd sneak over to the black places to hear blues musicians. It got to the point where I was… — Stevie Ray Vaughan Copy Share Image
The fact that I wasn't expected to read music at all and was absorbing everything by ear... it had a huge affect… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
I knew a lot of my musicians used to take coke. I never saw them. They would hide it from me, so… — Giorgio Moroder Copy Share Image
Ultimately, what we do as musicians, I think of us as a type of emotional engineer. We essential take these sound waves,… — Stefon Harris Copy Share Image
Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life. But I had an insight that maybe we would… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share Image
There isn't a difference between how I feel in the world and how I feel as a musician, or someone who writes.… — Wesley Eisold Copy Share Image
There are five things to write songs about: I'm leaving you. You're leaving me. I want you. You don't want me. I… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
I think it's something to do with the structural quality of the songs. We weren't actually trying to make stuff that was… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up… — Chad Smith Copy Share Image
My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
My brother is the lifelong musician; he made the choice to do that when we were very, very young kids. I remember… — Kevin Bacon Copy Share Image
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