I am a writer - that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
Your government has problems...my government has problems. I can't be a judge. All I can do is be an ambassador of love.… — Meshell Ndegeocello Copy Share Image
The musicians recommend that I sing a sing the way it is written the first time and then start to look for… — Margaret Whiting Copy Share Image
In Old English they don't say I had a dream, but there's another usage of the word - "life is but a… — Tom Verlaine 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
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
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
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
You do your work. You get up in the morning, you choose an outfit, you know? It doesn't have to be the… — Ishmael Butler Copy Share Image
People who are qualified are symphonic orchestra players and jazz musicians; they're qualified to do what they do. Rock stars are lucky.… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
“It's scary, and downing, that I make my best music when I'm going through my depression... At that moment, all i can… — scott mcgoldrick Copy Share Image
For a while I wanted to be a professional baseball pitcher, and then I wanted to be a musician and then sometimes… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician. Maybe an artist.… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
As a musician, I don't have one thing that's "my thing." I like to create, and have a lot of outlets for… — Chick Corea Copy Share Image
I want to be connecting with the subconscious, if I can call it that, because there are not to many words to… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
I always loved the look of musicians. I've always admired them because they have a look - when I was growing up,… — Frida Giannini 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
