There arent any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So youre just… — Guy Clark Copy Share Image
I'm not really calculated enough or trained enough as a musician or songwriter to create a style in order to please people.… — Jane Wiedlin Copy Share Image
I've never been a fearful person. When I was growing up, I wanted to be an actress, a writer, and a musician… — Krysten Ritter Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, all I wanted to do was to be a musician. I lost everything I had, but I… — Derek Waters Copy Share Image
You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing… — Etta James Copy Share Image
... Clear Channel owns all the major radio stations and venues. Most musicians aren't aware that a few people control so much… — Susan Tedeschi Copy Share Image
Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
I feel the theatre is the most unique one of all [the arts] for collaboration. I feel very fortunate to be in… — Susan Stroman Copy Share Image
I didn't come to Nashville to put on a cowboy hat and pretend to be a country singer. My attraction to Nashville… — John Oates Copy Share Image
From the small clubs of the Harlem Renaissance where he began playing saxophone to world tours for the biggest of the big… — William J. Clinton 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
I never said that I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid. I didn't know. I thought I was… — Adan Canto Copy Share Image
You probably became a musicians because you're into it so stay that way. Don't believe that someone else has the golden ticket… — Stephan Jenkins Copy Share Image
You must show respect and compassion towards the other musicians, and at the same time try to guide things along. I think… — Vinnie Colaiuta Copy Share Image
Learning how to record has been super empowering for me, because I spent so many years going into the studio and watching… — Julia Kent Copy Share Image
The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra,… — Lisa Loeb Copy Share Image
I always liked playing music and I always wanted to be good at playing guitar. I always saw myself as an old… — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
A work of art must make the rules: rules do not make a work of art...I tell people I am not a… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Okay, you can stay at home and Spotify, or YouTube, or you can get off your ass and come listen to what… — Nicholas Payton Copy Share Image
I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics,… — Nigel Kennedy Copy Share Image
I have never learned to read or write music so I am not a virtuoso musician like the others you mentioned. I… — Ken Hensley Copy Share Image
You do not become a master musician by playing just as you please, by imagining that learning the scales is sheer legalism… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
That's the government. Having been a politician and a musician, I can tell you which one is a higher calling. If musicians… — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
I like to play with people who can play simple and are not threatened by other musicians thinking they can't play. And… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that's… — Ben Folds Copy Share Image
Hip-hop has been the guiding light of my life as a musician and a music fan. It's the one common thread through… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
I like to be in the now, now. Sometimes musicians have to wait for me to be genuine with it. As an… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
Lou's such an old punk he was around when the Ramones were junkie hustlers first and musicians second, when punk meant something… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
I sometimes listen to music to get into some place that I need to get. I don't think it's because I have… — Mickey Sumner Copy Share Image
Today all sounds belong to a continuous field of possibilities lying within the comprehensive dominion of music. Behold the new orchestra: the… — R. Murray Schafer Copy Share Image
I wouldn't really describe myself directly as, like, a political musician. I think I have an opinion on a lot of things,… — Declan McKenna Copy Share Image
Be good to people. Be good to every single person you come into contact with. My best friends are great musicians. But… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
What is the source of power of musicians who are financially browbeaten, most of whom work for minimum wage or less? Musicians… — Itay Talgam Copy Share Image