For about seven years. I really like it there. There are a lot of great musicians. The scene is very open. A… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not… — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
I've never understood musicians who don't enjoy doing promotional interviews. I just can't believe it. I always think, 'Your life must have… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
It's important me as a musician and also as an occasional show goer to feel the presence of a band on stage,… — Jacob Bannon Copy Share Image
Basically, at some point, one day maybe you can expect to hear some of my music. I haven't really done that yet… — Stephen Dorff Copy Share Image
The second album was like being on a completely different planet compared to when we were making the first album. ... Even… — Katie Melua Copy Share Image
When I look at how fortunate I've been, being a musician... my response to being overpaid is that I should pay it… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, and many other great jazz musicians objected to their music being called jazz. While the outside world may… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
There are certain records from the 80s and early 90s that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go… — Beck Copy Share Image
The guys that I played with, Hollis Dixon and the Keynotes - just about all the great musicians from Muscle Shoals.We played… — Donnie Fritts Copy Share Image
It's like this when you fall hard for a musician. It's a crush with religious overtones. You listen to the songs and… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
I had to run away from home in order to be a musician. Because I came from a family of... my father… — Hugh Masekela Copy Share Image
I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
The hardest thing about being a young musician on the jazz scene is that there are so many styles of music, jazz… — Dave Kikoski Copy Share Image
Journalism is my first love. But music comes in a close second. What's important for me is that whatever you do, whatever… — Lester Holt Copy Share Image
My boyfriend's a musician, and I think when he's on stage is the only time he's not worrying. And so that's the… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I saw a nice interview with Dave Binney recently. He was saying, "Man it was never easy. It's not like 'Oh wow,… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
'Master Blaster,' by Stevie Wonder, is up-tempo and fun, like Stevie himself. Stevie's always making jokes; he really knows how to put… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
"Jazz" to begin with, is a really bad word... all the true musicians that really play jazz, jazz is the worst word… — Eldar Djangirov Copy Share Image
The musician and the listener. If this is love between two strangers watching each other from afar, that rough, burning moment when… — Tablo Copy Share Image
I wanted to go back to writing for myself and my fans. I built my own recording studio, started my own label,… — Linda Perry Copy Share Image
Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become… — Peter Tork Copy Share Image
I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I only performed a song so I could not write an essay. I just enjoyed being around bands, and around musicians, and,… — Caitlin Rose Copy Share Image
I can feel my father's spirit within me. I can feel similarities within us from the artistic perspective from being a musician.… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
I live in Topanga Canyon, which is like a faux-rustic enclave in Los Angeles. I love the sounds of all the critters… — Cliff Martinez Copy Share Image
You need to understand that a skilled professional songwriter can accelerate your success as an already talented musician. These people are writing… — Kara DioGuardi Copy Share Image
When you hear the melodic structures of what classical musicians put together and you compare it to that of a rock &… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I can imagine lyrics becoming better written by smart machines rather than stupid musicians. Songwriters generally have nothing to say. They may… — Stephin Merritt Copy Share Image
You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the… — K'naan Copy Share Image
Ego cannot bring anything extraordinary into the world; the extraordinary comes only through egolessness. And so is the case with the musician… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There's not a lot of precedent for weird, bald musicians in the Lower East Side making records in their bedrooms and going… — Moby Copy Share Image
Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures.… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Now, by and large, people are recording material to put on YouTube. I have a theory that YouTube is, in the end,… — Travis Morrison Copy Share Image
I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man.… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I would love to do a serious period drama. Oh, absolutely. I mean, you'll find most comedians want to do more serious… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
