You gotta pick yourself up. Sometimes you just gotta do it over and over, but you gotta do it. You can't give… — Steven Adler Copy Share Image
In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
New Kids on the Block are on season two [Full House ], so that was just a huge lifelong dream come true.… — Andrea Barber Copy Share Image
I am a musician. I didn't know I would be so when I was young. I do know that I have always… — Jane Siberry Copy Share Image
I get to be a musician with my life, so it doesn't even matter if I'm good in it. It means at… — Jon Brion Copy Share Image
I have a theory - if the music is good and you have good musicians, the name doesn't matter that much. There… — Joey Tempest Copy Share Image
And there are certain songs that are really timepieces and shouldn't be touched. But some of them are a celebration of good… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
It's easy to get on to something like alcohol or drugs so my advice to musicians is don't lose your perspective because… — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
Christian musicians today, minus about ten bands, have never had to fight to be accepted or heard like general market bands have… — Reese Roper Copy Share Image
When I got this saxophone, it became a religion. There wasn't TV, there wasn't much money, and there was just a real… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be a sideman. My own style was coming out and I was into my own writing. I wrote… — Shuggie Otis Copy Share Image
This great Mughal Emperor [Akbar] was illiterate; he could neither read nor write. However, that had not stopped Akbar from cultivating the… — Indu Sundaresan Copy Share Image
I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; not… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
By that point, I was about 12, 13 years old. I was this young black kid into rock music, which was kind… — Michael Kiwanuka Copy Share Image
Email is a mind-killer. Like, I really think getting a smartphone is the worst move I ever did in being a musician… — Dan Deacon Copy Share Image
To a lot of people, my job is really fancy, so they're like, "Oh, whoah, you're a musician, wow!" Some people go… — Shura Copy Share Image
Being a rock musician is already like ego-tripping hardcore. You're self-consumed, and you're always thinking. It's really easy to say, "I'm going… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
My brother was a fantastic cheerleader for my development as a musician. He was almost 10 years older than me and would… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
I don't think in time signatures, and when I do, what I write is generally 3/4 or 4/4, the most basic, straightforward… — Blake Judd Copy Share Image
It is not enough to do a desktop exercise of a Beethoven symphony. You need to practice with an orchestra. The musicians… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
I'm a musician and I listen to music all the time. If there's something out there where someone would tell me that… — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
You learn fast from others how to be an entertainer as well as a musician; you don't necessarily have to get out… — Les Paul Copy Share Image
The idea of being a rock and roll musician sort of suited my talents and mentality. The freedom was great, but then… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more I realize I'm becoming people's role models and that's freaky to me. That's not what you… — Ingrid Michaelson Copy Share Image
I'm a mother, and that's really important. Today, the mother and the musician can sit next to each other. Even when the… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Music will always be there. I own a piano. I have it in my apartment. I play it every day, and I… — David Lambert Copy Share Image
Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I always wanted to be a musician, a performer and an entertainer - but I never thought about… — Ross Lynch Copy Share Image
I just play the music that I love with musicians that I respect, and fortunately, I'm in a position where people are… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining… — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
I don't deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn't deserve… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're… — Bruce Jenner Copy Share Image
The musicians, Duke Ellington, his thing was not about separating himself from the rest of America. Louis Armstrong - go to the… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
If you are a musician and you don't show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people… — Michael Schenker Copy Share Image
I wanted to get my recording and become a musician again, work; with other people, do that kind of thing because I… — Bootsy Collins Copy Share Image
The important thing for any young singer or musician is to keep focused on becoming a better musician as opposed to becoming… — Gerry Rafferty Copy Share Image
Only a small percentage of novelists, painters, musicians, scientists, anywhere in the world, are talented. But there are many more in Hollywood… — Hortense Powdermaker Copy Share Image
My brother and I grew up in a musical family. We have an older sister who sings and plays the piano. Our… — Laura Allen Copy Share Image
I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
Then I was lucky I met with my future husband, and I started new life with my husband, and I was happy… — Olga Korbut Copy Share Image
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