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
I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
A grandmaster needs to retain thousands of games in his head, for games are to him what the words of their mother… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
If the records that I make have one thing in common, it's that there is little recapitulation, and the idea is that… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
“You can't make a fan of everyone. Stay true to your story, characters, music, art or whatever it is you do and… — Ann Marie Frohoff Copy Share Image
I think that if a real princess was lost in this modern world and she could be whatever she wanted, she would… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
I don't like to criticize music and I had a really hard time picking out the song I hate for this because… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Up until the rise of electronic music, if you were a musician in Portugal or Germany or Italy or Japan, and you… — Moby Copy Share Image
The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
I think most cartoonists are solitary, lonely kids who use their work as a way to try to connect with the world.… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
You take a sound, any sound, record it and then change it's nature by a multiplicity of operations. You record it at… — Daphne Oram Copy Share Image
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
When I did the Abyssinian mass, I went through the whole history of the church music and the gospel music, even with… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I was co-editor of the magazine called The Jazz Review, which was a pioneering magazine because it was the only magazine, then… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
ELVIS PRESLEY was bigger than life. His success was documented and laid out for him. He came to the first show I… — Roy Orbison Copy Share Image
I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience,… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I don't really have any "must work withs," but I would never refuse if a celebrity or fellow musician came along who… — Lita Ford Copy Share Image
A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
My mom and grandfather are my first teachers of music. Those experiences and the process of exploring music as a discipline through… — Guillermo E. Brown Copy Share Image
No form of art repeats or imitates successfully all that can be said by another; the writer conveys his experience of life… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
As for uniqueness, this is virtually nonexistent! And it's a shame that people think they're unique because they have a face ring,… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army… — Michelle Shocked Copy Share Image
I'm a musician - music will never go away - but my focus is acting, and I started late so I have… — Janina Gavankar Copy Share Image
What a young musician's dream, to say, "Look at those chrome drums. Look at that 22-inch ride cymbal. I'll have those." It… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the… — Eberhard Weber Copy Share Image
I'm meeting a lot of musicians and people in the music business, and am constantly trying to figure out what I want… — Tyler Posey Copy Share Image
My parents were serious working musicians, but they were not stars - not like pop stars that you have now. They had… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I've always felt that I would rather see an actor, writer, or musician's work, rather than actually know the person. If you… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
... Jeff Beck is my idol .. sometimes he finds notes that I just do not have on my guitar. Frank Zappa's… — Ritchie Blackmore Copy Share Image
When you're on stage, the audience becomes your other half. It's the ultimate high you can reach as a musician - an… — Laura Branigan Copy Share Image
If you were to ask me, 'What the hell does a musician have in common with a restaurant?' I would say a… — Mick Fleetwood 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
I'm not really interested in a ton of female musicians but there is something about Britney that compelled me - the way… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
I became a musician because I love music, and that is what has sustained me; it's not because I thought it was… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
My gift's primarily literary. That being said, I ended up a musician. By the time I made the bluegrass record...I'm more impressed… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
