I've been a list maker for years, even before I was a musician. I was always writing things down and kept long… — Buzz Osborne Copy Share Image
I want to keep growing as a musician. I want to keep making records. I want to keep improving as a songwriter.… — Rosalia Copy Share Image
Musicians have the power to influence people and along with movie makers, they can reach and influence more people than any group… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed. If you have five players in a… — Bill Dixon Copy Share Image
Somebody might get criticized for doing some movie that totally sucks, then turn around and be incredible. Every actor goes through that,… — Lance Bass Copy Share Image
I did a lot of writing when I was in college, and that's what I thought I wanted to do; saying that… — Jack Tatum Copy Share Image
Regarding jam sessions: Jazz musicians are the only workers I can think of who are willing to put in a full shift… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
If I knew what it was going to look like, I wouldnt be so excited to be a part of it. Jazz… — Joshua Redman Copy Share Image
People with talent are not interested in showing off behind another person. They're more interested in the music. [Charlie Parker] was playing… — Helen Merrill Copy Share Image
It is only by demanding the impossible of the piano that you can obtain from it all that is possible. For the… — Heinrich Neuhaus Copy Share Image
Indeed we have souls. And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The cliché of that sort of wasted, renegade, drugged-out musician of the '70s is kind of dead and gone now. And I… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
Occasionally I hear a band that blows me away. For instance, there's a musician in Oakland named Weasel Walter who has a… — Glenn Branca Copy Share Image
Being a musician, especially at the major label where you work for so long, it becomes a cycle. Write a record, make… — Art Alexakis Copy Share Image
When you say what is the difference between me and my stage name the idea is that as a musician you always… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
When I lived in New York, there wasn't as much TV or film around. I got asked to do a couple of… — James Iha Copy Share Image
It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened,… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
Write with your eyes like painters, with your ears like musicians, with your feet like dancers. You are the truthsayer with quill… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
My father, Arinze Ejiofor , was a musician and a doctor. Nobody's ever asked me about that combination and what growing up… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
Poetry and music I have banished, But the stupidity Of root, shoot, blossom or clay Makes no demand. I bend my body… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I'm a working musician, so it's what I do. I kind of always have lots of plates spinning, and it's the ones… — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
I tried to sing 'What's Going On' with Amy Winehouse once at an old cinema in the West End. There was a… — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
It was a natural thing for me to go become a musician, and then to start writing music. I don't even really… — Geoff Zanelli Copy Share Image
I was at a time of my life of making choices, I suppose: am I a writer, am I a visual artist?… — David Toop Copy Share Image
People see musicians on a huge stage playing a festival for 80,000 people and are like, "Oh, they have such magnetism," but… — Geoff Rickly Copy Share Image
Live with your memories and keep them as memories and that’s great. Forget the bad times just remember the good ones and… — Roger Meddows Taylor Copy Share Image
I used to be a session musician before I was a wrestler. I played bass guitar. I was big pals with Lars… — Hulk Hogan Copy Share Image
Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The problem was the journalists who also did not understand much of my music, but they wrote about it. I think you… — Klaus Schulze Copy Share Image
Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see A… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
As comedians, we have the opportunity to convey a message that will have an effect. The best can make you laugh and… — Jay Pharoah Copy Share Image
If I was not a film-maker I'd probably be a musician. I like Kanye West, Jay-Z, R&B, classical, jazz and all kinds… — Kasi Lemmons Copy Share Image
If you look at the history of popular music, the most successful musicians have started out being really marginal and esoteric. The… — Moby Copy Share Image
My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
I'm going to be a better actor, or I'm going to try to be a better actor. I'm going to try to… — Lola Kirke Copy Share Image
I don't have any desire to do something that sounds explicitly rock. Like, I don't have a burning need to be a… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts. We can either be… — Hazel Scott Copy Share Image
If you truly have expertise - and expertise can be say a chess master who has really mastered something or an artist… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
Writing is an art like other arts. Dancers don't dance every once in a while. Musicians don't stop practicing. They are dedicated… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
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