I'm a musician; I have to perform. I can't give up. I have to be even more courageous. We know that we… — Shahin Najafi Copy Share Image
You can't teach a young musician to compose any more than you can teach a delicate plant to grow, but you can… — Frederick Delius Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons I'm successful as a musician is that the first like 30 shows I played, I played… — Grimes Copy Share Image
Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
I stopped drinking and realised New York still has a lot of charm, but it has become so bourgeois and affluent -… — Moby Copy Share Image
Visible Faith is an expression of my Christian faith which must be visible to be real! I gave the name to the… — Ken Hensley Copy Share Image
It's hard to view myself sometimes as even in the same league as other musicians, mainly because there's so much music before… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
When I did it, I was a starving musician in London in a basement flat, but a simple tune with the right… — Mick Ralphs Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a musician who has achieved perfection and can't develop any further. But I compose my pieces with a… — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
I put my name on that Occupy Musicians list because someone wrote to me and said, "Would you do this?" I said,… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
I've approached music with the understanding that knowledge is available regarding tones and their effect upon the body. I think the father… — Paul Horn Copy Share Image
I think the key that differentiates the good actors from the mediocre ones that are still trying to come up, is that… — Wesley Snipes Copy Share Image
The life of any musician really doesn't fall into a normal schedule at all. Every week there are different rehearsals, different days… — Leonard Slatkin Copy Share Image
I have always loved jazz music and as a teen growing up in New York City and then later on as an… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
We'd be recording and I'd go down to Greenpoint where Rostam was living and track stuff... It was a busy time. I… — Chris Baio Copy Share Image
But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have… — Amy Ray Copy Share Image
I had success early on where I'm able to try to keep it fun, and I don't have to do things just… — Norah Jones Copy Share Image
The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in… — Hal Sparks Copy Share Image
“... Kenny G is extremely talented and resourceful and a powerful force to be reckoned with ... Mr. G might not seem… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted… — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
Companies have to take risks to get new knowledge, in a manner similar to how jazz musicians take risks when they go… — John Kao Copy Share Image
I started to listen to Japanese jazz musicians when I went to high school. Some people I listened to were Yosuke Yamashita,… — Hiromi Copy Share Image
My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I'm tied to myself… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
I went to Juilliard in New York and used to do cabarets just for fun. Occasionally, I would get together with a… — Nicole Beharie Copy Share Image
I never minded being thought of as a pop star. People have always thought I wanted to be seen as a serious… — George Michael Copy Share Image
We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There's all these musicians in the world, and anybody that takes enough time to create a record or even think about the… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
God makes something special and unique about each person that sets them apart from every other person, and to me that's is… — Bubba Sparxxx Copy Share Image
I started working in music very young, I was raised by a family of musicians and performers, so I guess it was… — Vanessa Amorosi Copy Share Image
I am still very proud of that concert. In America, the (musicians') connection with the conductor is as with management - it… — Neeme Jarvi Copy Share Image
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev can no longer attend concerts by his favorite group Deep Purple without having to fear that the musicians… — Alexei Navalny Copy Share Image
I'm better at producing than I am at being a songwriter, but it doesn't change the fact that I still have a… — John Congleton Copy Share Image
From the moment I first heard Steve Laury play, I knew he was dangerous . . . He is an extremely gifted… — Nathan East Copy Share Image
Andy Rourke and I had been playing together from 14 or 15, and we had a very great musical chemistry. Andy's just… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through… — Eddie Redmayne Copy Share Image
It was so much fun conducting an orchestra and watching the musicians' faces as some of Kanye's lyrics went by. They couldn't… — Jon Brion Copy Share Image
I grew up in church. That's how most young African American musicians learn how to perform. You could be six years old… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
Music and visual performance have to influence each other. Designers and musicians have to be the nexus of all things pop culture,… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
