We're all different. Some people are musicians, some people are actors, some people are agents and some people are accountants... We're all… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Drummers shouldn't just think of themselves as drummers. If you're going to be a musician, you should expand your horizons, compose things,… — Stewart Copeland Copy Share Image
Everybody always wants to meet musicians. You can go to any random bar around the world and be like, "I'm a musician,"… — Patrick Watson Copy Share Image
I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique… — Billy Sheehan Copy Share Image
I would say that the evocative qualities of music are usually put there in post-production in the reverb. It's really not much… — Stephin Merritt Copy Share Image
I'm a very typical yoga-practicing musician; I do it when I can. I'm not hardcore about it. A lot of my lyrics… — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
I did recording sessions as a musician as well as a background vocalist and enjoyed every minute of it. I remember singing… — Ray Stevens Copy Share Image
I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn… — Donald Fagen Copy Share Image
You can choose not to be a performing musician. You can choose to just be a recording artist. But then you run… — Mirah Copy Share Image
genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man,… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik 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
My goal is to live the truly religious life, and express it in my music. If you live it, when you play… — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
I think if you think of our lives as musicians, it's craftsmanship. We're not artists, we're more artisans. You know, I don't… — David Prowse Copy Share Image
Luther Vandross and I met in Roberta Flack's band. He was singing background, I was playing bass, and Roberta was beautiful. She's… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
Musically, though, you're a character and you're singing a song. If you're not your own character, you're the character in the song,… — Jack White Copy Share Image
I think that it's fear. The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
When you really do find a new idea or you're in and it's all working, that's the gift. It's like a musician… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
I have a food show.It's not just baseball people. It's a mixture of baseball people, actors, musicians, chefs and whatnot. They bring… — Prince Fielder Copy Share Image
My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my… — Toots Thielemans Copy Share Image
Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything,… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My dad studied at the American Conservatory in Chicago, so he lived on all those streets. He said the war probably saved… — Kim Basinger Copy Share Image
I find the fact that so few people buy albums to be strangely emancipating. There's absolutely no reason for 99% of musicians… — Moby Copy Share Image
Jazz is the greatest American art form and our greatest export. We don't pay attention to the youth of jazz, don't stoke… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
A lot of people know Dad the musician. We've always known him as Dad - who could be corny, funny, serious at… — Cedella Marley Copy Share Image
My family were symphonic musicians and in the opera. Also, it was my era, the love of radio. We used to listen… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
Appalachia is still, for American musicians, a kind of fountain of youth we always go back to, the old home place to… — Paul Burch Copy Share Image
Clay Cook is a first class musician. Tender tormented genius here in 'North Star'. I will kill him if he leaves my… — Zac Brown Copy Share Image
When the musical keyboard was created in the 1970's, you had electronic geeks that had no background in music created these devises… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
The whole music industry has completely and totally changed from how it was. It's very, very different. When we started, there were… — Susan Ann Sulley Copy Share Image
I wish I could write librettos for the rest of my life. It is the purest of human pleasures, a heavenly hermaphroditism… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
I was raised a musician and I played classic music, violin, in orchestras and music comedy theaters, I have music running around… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I would not want the limitations held by the name of a classical musician. I want many people to enjoy my music… — Ji-Hae Park Copy Share Image
Then it evolved into more of a ballad style singer/songwriter thing. And there was a conflict in trying to merge the two… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Music is the most important thing. I'm thinking of my future. There has to be something new, and I want to be… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
I liked rock music going back to the '60s, but I never ever had any desire to be a rock musician and… — Glenn Branca Copy Share Image
As a composer you want to tell musicians two completely contradictory things. You want to say, "Play exactly what I wrote, but… — Nico Muhly Copy Share Image
I have always dreamt of becoming an artist, and I have always pursued that dream. But I’ve had to realize, that I… — Finn Juhl Copy Share Image
There are street artists. Street musicians. Street actors. But there are no street physicists. A little known secret is that a physicist… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I just love the process of working with other actors. It's like jamming with a musician, except it takes a little more… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
