“[novan]: bassists are very good with their fingers [novan]: and some of us sing backup vocals, so that means we're good with… — Jess C Scott Copy Share Image
I wouldn't buy somebody's album on a dare if they called him a musician's musician. I don't write to be a writer's… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
As players of instruments, it is our duty to reach out and give light to those in the dark in whatever way… — Sizzla Copy Share Image
I would advise all young musicians to not only experience and play chamber music, but to go to operas, speak to the… — Wu Han Copy Share Image
My musician friends are banned from playing concerts in China because they share the same views as I do. My name cannot… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
other artists - poets, painters, sculptors, musicians - produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of… — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share Image
I remember the university as being very encouraging, especially to experimentation. I think you always get a lot of musicians in any… — Neil Farber Copy Share Image
You'll find little schools of musicians experimenting with different ways of making music in Brooklyn, all through Manhattan, in Queens, in Jersey,… — Chick Corea Copy Share Image
Unnur Birna is a Reykjavik-based violinist and singer. She has performed as a session musician with countless Icelandic and international artists while… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
Most people define themselves by what they do - 'I'm a musician.' Then one day it occurred to me that I'm only… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
Everybody struggles with get tiring as a musician having to play the same songs over and over again on one level or… — Crosby Loggins Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be someone in the entertainment industry. In my eighth grade slideshow, when everyone was like "show us what… — Lilly Singh Copy Share Image
I think it's quite tricky for actors to release albums. It's difficult, because I'm an actor, you know, I'm not a musician.… — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
You're always in a tunnel that you can't see the end of. But there's something that took place on this movie that… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
An actor can do a play on Broadway for three years. Every night he's expressing the same emotion in exactly the same… — Richard Estes Copy Share Image
Our nights didn't begin until after noon. Because in the old days, you'd start Birdland at 8:30 or 9 pm and play… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
I think very frequently, musicians become a victim of every song they sing. I like all kinds of recreation. It's aggressive. I… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
The fountain of youth with the youthful young musician is one meaning, and the fountain of youth with the youthful energy of… — Roy Haynes Copy Share Image
I go down to New York, do the project, and leave. I have no interest in participating in the rat race down… — Paul Smoker Copy Share Image
Anybody who'd expend energy preventing people from hearing music seems not to understand the basic principal of making music in the first… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
There actually had been a tradition within English music of the '60s of people looking eastwards, maybe in quite a naïve way,… — Justin Adams Copy Share Image
I started to study the flute in 1951. The flute has been utilized by African-American musicians as far back as the early… — Yusef Lateef Copy Share Image
I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to.… — Ringo Starr Copy Share Image
I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwriter. In my book that means… — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
I used to go to Bourbon Street when I was a kid and there would be club after club after club of… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
Most of the time when musicians get together, there's always that variance - always someone's a little ahead of the beat, someone's… — Alan Sparhawk Copy Share Image
I never wanted to get a job of musician. That was kind of my thing. I came from somewhat of a musical… — Nate Ruess Copy Share Image
Not only was he not mad, but he was a musician, and my favorite men had always been musicians or writers or… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
We not only grew up on Be-Bop; Be-Bop raised us. For my generation, Be-Bop came on like a light bulb going flash… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I love film, and I would love to be a part of something that people universally love as a piece of film.… — Norah Jones Copy Share Image
I've heard Eric Clapner, ... I think it was a wonderful thing that Eric Clapner the musician did...So I think that's the… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
You know somethin', man? Some day I'm gonna be walkin' up the street one way and you're gonna be comin' down the… — Chick Webb Copy Share Image
By the time I was 19, my parents weren't very authoritative over my life.I didn't have any doubt about that - at… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons musicians keep doing what they do and writers keep doing what they do, is that we're… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
The melody is the most important thing that must stay in the minds of the people who listen to you. No matter… — George Benson Copy Share Image
Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone--beginners, children, and non-musicians… — Derek Bailey Copy Share Image
Being a musician, you want to be able to do the hardest stuff there is. People would think it's classical, but in… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
You can' t help being a musician because you've grown up with music, yet being one means being compared to your dad… — Dhani Harrison Copy Share Image
I have more fun hanging out with my friends who are musicians and rock stars. You know politicians by and large are… — Jann Wenner Copy Share Image