Most musicians I know don't just play music on Saturday night. They play music every day. They are always fiddling around, letting… — Henry Wessel, Jr Copy Share Image
Now as jazz musicians we're saying for this society, you can free up your imagination. You can proceed in an area without… — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Sometimes people say I should see a therapist, but I don't want any therapist wrecking my weirdness. — Peter Wolf Copy Share Image
Once in a while, a teacher gets rewarded with a brilliant student. My two years with Dan Szabo at the New England… — Bob Brookmeyer Copy Share Image
Time and persistence has shown me that I can succeed at sharing my art with others as a musician while running my… — Bradley Joseph Copy Share Image
A man cannot be professor of zoölogy on one day and of chemistry on the next, and do good work in both.… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
Many of the greatest composers and musicians do their best work in extreme confinement but we are seeing it in other fields… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
I often envy a filmmaker or a playwright or an author where people are like, "Yeah, I sat down every night and… — Dan Deacon Copy Share Image
I read to learn, tech myself stuff and teach myself math and do complex formulas, and it's very, very tough, but I… — Jeff Kendrick Copy Share Image
Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make… — Joseph Addison 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
Don't decide that you're going to be a writer or musician and just expect it to happen because it's a big gamble… — Max Bemis Copy Share Image
Performers always come back from the Edinburgh festival with adventure stories. Watts told a few: meeting a young kilt maker who spent… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
When I'm working behind a camera, I feel like I'm trying to achieve something like a jazz musician does. — Jack Welpott Copy Share Image
I said to myself a long time ago that I didn't want to be that hanging-on-for-too-long, aging-rock-musician guy, and that's why I… — Eric Avery Copy Share Image
I really had a great time working with 'Modest Mouse,' just because of the people. I loved writing songs with Isaac Brock,… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
The Lord calls each one of His children, no matter what his occupation-lawyer, doctor, maintenance man, carpenter, accountant, athlete, musician, teacher, homeschooling… — Mike Bickle Copy Share Image
As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so perfectly capture… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation on a theme. So musicians say the… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
