I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
I go by the "Miles Davis school of production and band-leading", where you pick the best musicians you can, you provide them… — Jose James Copy Share Image
I'd have no trouble being the barbecue kingpin of America. I'd just add it to all the other things I am: jazz… — Bobby Seale Copy Share Image
No, I've heard over the years that it's nice for them to see somebody who's like, you know, a well-known successful musician… — James Iha Copy Share Image
Tim Price has captured my imagination on many occasions with his forward thinking arrangements and wonderfully captivating playing. He is a unique… — Jeff Coffin Copy Share Image
I think an artist can fit under a few different categories depending on how much you explore your creativity. It can vary… — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
It's hard to separate art from artists so transgender musicians will never be mainstream until transpeople are looked at as notable as… — Willam Belli Copy Share Image
The fact that I fell into this seemed more like a stroke of good fortune than hard work. Not to say that… — Jack Tatum Copy Share Image
On tour things go wrong all the time, I mean that's live music, that's what it's all about. I think one of… — Joey Badass Copy Share Image
It wasn't professional, but it was a few levels below the top level. I loved playing football, but my passion was always… — Vance Joy Copy Share Image
The story of The Doors is one of the most compelling in the history of American rock music; three hugely talented musicians… — Tom DiCillo Copy Share Image
Musicians in my day had nicknames. My name was "Satchel Mouth," like a doctor's satchel. When I went to England this fellow… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wait." "Stop?" I bit my lip and nodded. "Stop everything, or just go no further?" "Just...just no further." "Done." He gathered me… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
No more painters, no more scribblers, no more musicians, no more sculptors, no more religions, no more royalists, no more radicals, no… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
Books are frozen voices, in the same way that musical scores are frozen music. The score is a way of transmitting the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
One day, a musician asked me what I did. When I told him I was to be a businessman, he laughed and… — Alexander Hanson Copy Share Image
You know, Equal Interest played at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival Awards and not one musician from that category was even thought… — Joseph Jarman Copy Share Image
The most important thing for the conductor is that he or she listens. Her listening will make things sound a certain way.… — Laurence Equilbey Copy Share Image
I suppose I am a frustrated musician so I annoy my family by playing guitar in the house. I used to be… — Kevin McKidd Copy Share Image
I used to try and make up visually for what I couldn't play as a musician. I used to get into very… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the… — Herbie Mann Copy Share Image
I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, 'cause the people I was… — Emeli Sande Copy Share Image
Most musicians I know don't just play music on Saturday night. They play music every day. They are always fiddling around, letting… — Henry Wessel, Jr Copy Share Image
Growing around great musicians, you just can't help it. I identified with it immediately. It was something that was so natural to… — Whitney Houston Copy Share Image
It's true that the Internet is an equalizer, and everybody can be a star now. Musicians are more touchable these days, and… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
The sound was my greatest concern. There were certain difficulties getting used to the way every musician can hear his or herself,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He dreamed of amassing musicians from all over the world in Woodstock and they would sit in a field in a circle… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor, or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it… — B. J. Chute Copy Share Image
I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it's going to happen, but as musicians I think… — Elton John Copy Share Image
I'll leave it to other people to evaluate the legacy of my book, but I'm very moved when musicians tell me that… — Michael Azerrad Copy Share Image
Jazz is not about getting and playing whatever notes you want. It is about reworking themes in a manner that sounds good,… — John Kao Copy Share Image
My guys studied music from a young age and I did not so I think, like, adding the idiot to the table… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
I could never overstate the importance of a musician's need to develop his or her ear. Actually, I believe that developing a… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
It was a great thrill just to know Roy Orbison, so to play, sing, write hit songs with him and have him… — Jeff Lynne Copy Share Image
When I'm doing interviews, I'm doing interviews, and when I am writing, I'm writing. I sit there with a musician and I… — Lisa Marie Presley Copy Share Image
I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds… — Bill Bruford Copy Share Image
I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic,… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
When a street musician lowered his violin to inquire, 'Hey lovely, what you got there?' she said, 'Musicians who ask questions,' and… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
The Chronic represented everything that I hated about hip-hop as a fan, but then later represented everything that I stood for as… — Questlove Copy Share Image
