My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians. — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
I've got lots of friends who are musicians, so if they ask me to do things, I'll go and do it for… — Kate Moss Copy Share Image
I met Les Paul when I was about 5. I was taken to see him perform and the place was sold out,… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
Way before musicians and actors cornered the market on misbehavior, writers were flooding hotel rooms and testing their livers' upper limits. — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their… — Seymour Stein Copy Share Image
I was singing when I was two years old, and my parents were very supportive, but they weren't musicians themselves. — John Oates Copy Share Image
Musicians are so well covered in the press, it would be great to see more outspoken practitioners of green life. — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
It's fun for musicians to step into each other's world. It's like different football teams - it's the same game but a… — Rob Halford Copy Share Image
“Now, as I understand it, the bards were feared. They were respected, but more than that they were feared. If you were… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
There aren't a lot of cover bands that do Boston material or do it well, and the reason for that is that… — Tom Scholz Copy Share Image
I started quite late. I only discovered that I could write a song when I was, like, 17... some musicians, they're starting… — Alice Merton Copy Share Image
“I think her favorite thing about our . . . collaboration was her actor and musician friends rubbing shoulders with my academic… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
That's Tommy, this great producer who comes in contact with people and must have a mental library of personnel who are great… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
I met Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I'm not really star struck by actors, but musicians, that's when I… — Christopher Mintz-Plasse Copy Share Image
There are a lot of musicians who are still desperately trying to pretend that it's 1998 and by having a huge marketing… — Moby Copy Share Image
Black musicians were imitating speech cadences, and Kerouac was imitating the black musicians' breath cadences on their horns and brought it back… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Kings had their clowns, the people their actors and musicians. Shakespeare was scheduled as a servant. It is thus that successful stupidity… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Generally, musicians find that as they get older, their popularity starts to wane. Pre-Covid, however, I was going through a good phase… — Paul Young Copy Share Image
Both my fathers are unconventional. They are like unicorns or wizards. They are musicians through and through. The way they think is… — Liv Tyler Copy Share Image
I've never understood musicians who don't enjoy doing promotional interviews. I just can't believe it. I always think, 'Your life must have… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that. — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
It turns out that there's a huge community of African-American musicians whose main influence is Throbbing Gristle. — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
We don't tell you what to think or believe in. That's not our job. We're rock musicians. Our job is to rock. — Sonny Sandoval Copy Share Image
I'm a comedian, and the other comedians are played by comedians, the same way that in 'Once' there are the musicians that… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Lou Reed's music has been in the lives of millions of people all over the world for decades. He had a truly… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
I think that musicians should never forget about the intimacy of bringing two people together, and the aesthetic transference where you're almost… — Joe Williams Copy Share Image
Film is the only art form where we feel we have to title our stuff literally. Musicians don't have to title their… — Sean Baker Copy Share Image
I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
When I work with different musicians, I draw a lot of things from them, and that has really expanded my musical thinking. — Shruti Haasan Copy Share Image
I would love to do a serious period drama. Oh, absolutely. I mean, you'll find most comedians want to do more serious… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
Sometimes the simplest forms of music are the hardest to play. Especially for musicians that are accomplished. — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
I think musicians are always very generous in promoting anything good they hear. It's just kind of in our nature. — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to sound mean spirited, but I honestly don't know of many successful musicians who get that excited about other… — Mark Kozelek Copy Share Image
Bobby Darin was one of the first to take black musicians on the road with his band, and there were places that… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
It has been an honor to paint on stage and have my art grace the albums and stage sets of renowned musicians. — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
As a child I'd sit at dinner parties with artists, authors and musicians, some of the best people in their fields. I… — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
No one told Miles Davis or BB King to pack it in. John Lee Hooker played literally up to the day he… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
We are in the entertainment business. This should be fun. We are musicians; we don't save lives. We shouldn't... we shouldn't take… — James Blunt Copy Share Image
The old generation music is building the university for teaching the lessons the new generation music is building the kindergarten for painting… — Black Son Beats Copy Share Image
