The musicians are good and their music is catchy - it pulls the kids in in droves. Mike Bickle admitted to me… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
When I went off to college, I was expecting to be a concert musician. In music school I heard all of these… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
There's been this perception that Europeans still hold on to, that they discover the real talented ones in American culture and give… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
The goths are beautiful, a vast depth of subcultural, aesthetic and poetic ideas, and we would identify with that as we did… — Peter Murphy Copy Share Image
What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn… — Roscoe Mitchell Copy Share Image
Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them… — Youssou N'Dour Copy Share Image
People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Nobody else even approaches the trumpet like [Sweets Edison] does: Never too much and always plenty. He's the greatest trumpet player to… — Ella Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I started playing drums at a pretty early age because my parents were musicians. My dad was an amazing multi-instrumentalist and I… — Billy Sherwood Copy Share Image
There are no Jerry Garcias coming down the pike, anymore than there is a Jimi Hendrix or Bob Marley. They are all… — Trey Anastasio Copy Share Image
Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find… — Jerry Lee Lewis Copy Share Image
As an improviser you need to experience the moment- and that includes everything in the moment. Observe the people around you-the bandleader,… — Pat Martino Copy Share Image
It is really sad for the new artists. Where's the next Elvis, where's the next Beatles, where's the Zeppelin? They're out there… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to my grandfather's stories of our musical past. He would often talk about the orchestras that played at… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Copy Share Image
I've heard of people stopping their cars, having car wrecks, all kinds of things. But most of the banjo players I know… — Earl Scruggs Copy Share Image
I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because you want to get… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When someone is a musician - trying to make a living off being a public figure - it's really easy for people… — Mitski Copy Share Image
I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up… — Glenn Frey Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm struggling now, and nearly every musician I know feels that way - even the most successful ones. I… — Eleanor Friedberger Copy Share Image
Music is not everything in life. If a young musician looks at it that way, then he can just play his instrument… — Joe Zawinul Copy Share Image
I started as a musician, then I was a singer. I sang with the band. Then I was an actor in the… — Hal Linden Copy Share Image
I have no illusions about being a genius musician. I pride myself on being a soldier, a warrior for jazz. I trained… — Phil Woods Copy Share Image
I hope America sees I am a goofy guy andI'm kind a crazy, I hope they see that I am a musician… — Casey Abrams Copy Share Image
I don't think my skill level is up there as a musician. I think I'm best at writing in general. The musicians… — Ian Simpson Copy Share Image
As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in… — Bono Copy Share Image
Your development as a musician will come to an eventual standtill if you do not develop yourself as a human being. Only… — Carl Orr Copy Share Image
I'm not a things person. I'm not one to keep much. I do have a small collection of picks from favorite musicians… — Chris Wyse Copy Share Image
Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
A conundrum of music is that music brings people together, yet to become a skilled musician involves a certain amount of lonely… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
I don't like every other musician's work. The same way that filmmakers don't like every other filmmakers' work. Just because I'm a… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a musician from when I was kid. It was always a massive dream of mine. School was… — Emeli Sande Copy Share Image
As worship leaders we might use music as a tool, but music is only ever just that - a tool with which… — Reuben Morgan Copy Share Image
Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling… — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
The idea that a musician can submit music online for the chance to have it promoted to a nationwide audience is the… — Ali Partovi Copy Share Image
People need to put my music in a perspective where they use other established artists from the past, and almost all the… — Sondre Lerche Copy Share Image
When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Chuck Berry told me if it wasn't for Louis Jordan, he wouldn't have probably ever even got into music. That Louis Jordan… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
I would say I'm a musician first, actually. I started playing music when I was 10. Then I started designing, went to… — Henrik Vibskov Copy Share Image
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![“It is really sad for the new artists. Where's the next Elvis, where's the next Beatles, where's the Zeppelin? They're out there but they don't have a chance because once upon a time we [musicians of the 60s] had record companies, and they would support you and have point of purchase material and…” quote by Gene Simmons](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/bae/gene-simmons-2164_air_it-is-really-sad-for-the-new-artists-whe_443532.jpg)
