All of these people kept on being professional musicians…

Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.

— James Cook

I was very drawn to music of all types, from Beethoven to Jimi Hendrix. There were musicians and composers who obviously were expressing a…

— Frederick Lenz

“There are special neurological hazards, “disorders of skill,” that may affect professional musicians. The normal association of intellectual and emotional may break down in…

— Anonymous

... we weren't very professional; she could have gone to almost any town and put together a smoother ensemble, but we were pioneers, and…

— Sam Andrew

My father, my uncles, my aunts, from my father's side and my mother's side... they were all professional musicians. My father was a concert…

— Lalo Schifrin

I've always tried to be a poet more than anything else. I mean, professional musicians die.

— Cecil Taylor

I don't have a family that grew up singing and playing all the time. I didn't really have anything to judge my abilities against…

— Van Hunt

“We disagreed about so many things, yet here was family: the people who kept dancing with you, even after the music stopped.”

— Sibella Giorello

“It is important to always remember that at any time you think of it there are people being kept in buildings when they want…

— Peter Rock

Sometimes on a soap, it can become about all this other stuff - the party circuit, reality shows - but I gravitated towards people…

— Himesh Patel

But what could you do? Only keep going. People kept going; they had been doing it for thousands of years. You took the kindness…

— Elizabeth Strout

“People kept their books, she thought, not because they were likely to read them again but because these objects contained the past--the texture of…

— Tom Rachman

“Many capable people are kept from getting to the next level of contribution because they can’t let go of the belief that everything is…

— Greg McKeown

I know the struggles of poor people, and have always kept that with me.

— Dolly Parton

Every law is a contract between the king and the people and therefore to be kept.

— John Selden