One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
I do the work with friends who are musicians as well. I'm working on a piece of music and I have an… — Paul van Dyk Copy Share Image
Music is the sound of the universal laws promulgated. It is the only assured tone. There are in it such strains as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I want longevity; I love music, being a musician is the greatest gift in the world to me, and if I were… — Christina Grimmie Copy Share Image
It's really important to create something, like with my creations as a musician. Just let it flow. Focus on how to deliver… — Miyavi Copy Share Image
I have a real love of sound and the shape of the sound. I'm a musician, and I'm fascinated with the effects… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make… — Robert Moog Copy Share Image
A lot of the people that I photograph are master musicians themselves, whether they're singers or great jazz players and it's kind… — Carol Friedman Copy Share Image
My abject hatred of actors and the acting world. I went to college as an actor, and halfway through, I switched to… — Christian Finnegan Copy Share Image
“I thought that if I owned nothing, had nothing, was nothing, I would have nothing left to lose, and I wouldn't be… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
There's the beauty of the stage. I don't like filmed theater or opera because you're kind of playing soccer in a hockey… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
I personally see myself as a musician in the first place. You know, I don't want to say I will be a… — Zedd Copy Share Image
The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he's a… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I started thinking, my gosh, all this sophisticated software for measuring how Yo-Yo plays, and how he moves and this technique of… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
We can and should place special emphasis on developing in our youth constructive incentives - a love of science, engineering, and math,… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I don't really think of these as projects. I think of them as bands. I have tried to not just convene a… — Dave Douglas Copy Share Image
For better or for worse, I think my approach to jazz is very traditional, in one sense, but is [also] very out… — Jose James Copy Share Image
I think my playing has been orchestral throughout the years, and this is another way of expressing that. But I primarily see… — Tony Williams Copy Share Image
I am a black man dedicated to expression; expression of the joy and pride of blackness. I consider myself neither poet, composer,… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a… — Eberhard Weber Copy Share Image
We were brash young fellows. I was always hanging with the older crowd anyway. The musicians were the Hip Cats, and I… — Bootsy Collins Copy Share Image
I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I live in Topanga Canyon, which is like a faux-rustic enclave in Los Angeles. I love the sounds of all the critters… — Cliff Martinez Copy Share Image
I only performed a song so I could not write an essay. I just enjoyed being around bands, and around musicians, and,… — Caitlin Rose Copy Share Image
I can feel my father's spirit within me. I can feel similarities within us from the artistic perspective from being a musician.… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become… — Peter Tork Copy Share Image
I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
The musician and the listener. If this is love between two strangers watching each other from afar, that rough, burning moment when… — Tablo Copy Share Image
I wanted to go back to writing for myself and my fans. I built my own recording studio, started my own label,… — Linda Perry Copy Share Image
Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
"Jazz" to begin with, is a really bad word... all the true musicians that really play jazz, jazz is the worst word… — Eldar Djangirov Copy Share Image
'Master Blaster,' by Stevie Wonder, is up-tempo and fun, like Stevie himself. Stevie's always making jokes; he really knows how to put… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
I saw a nice interview with Dave Binney recently. He was saying, "Man it was never easy. It's not like 'Oh wow,… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man.… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
Now, by and large, people are recording material to put on YouTube. I have a theory that YouTube is, in the end,… — Travis Morrison Copy Share Image
Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures.… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Ego cannot bring anything extraordinary into the world; the extraordinary comes only through egolessness. And so is the case with the musician… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There's not a lot of precedent for weird, bald musicians in the Lower East Side making records in their bedrooms and going… — Moby Copy Share Image
I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the… — K'naan Copy Share Image
I can imagine lyrics becoming better written by smart machines rather than stupid musicians. Songwriters generally have nothing to say. They may… — Stephin Merritt Copy Share Image
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