Being from a classical environment, I've always been provoked by classical musicians thinking that classical music is so much greater art than… — Matias Tellez Copy Share Image
“I don't have what it takes to inspire someone to become a "worldly" musician or rapper! I can't use the power God… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I like being a musician that's also a fly on the wall. I like people coming in the room and doing what… — Travis Morrison Copy Share Image
Riding a horse is a relationship with a foreign creature, and with musicians it's a similar thing: "OK, I'm going to put… — Nico Muhly Copy Share Image
The musician lifestyle is not easy for most people to understand. This is something I'm struggling with. When you're on tour, people… — Sharon Van Etten Copy Share Image
Singles needed to come back. And what I tried to do in my online experiment was to change the rules for myself… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
As a musician you fall into certain patterns that you're not conscious of, unless you start listening to yourself on tape a… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
I have to say that Adam Levine is truly a daring young man to go on Twitter to bash Fox News. He's… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
People who are qualified are symphonic orchestra players and jazz musicians; they're qualified to do what they do. Rock stars are lucky.… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
You do your work. You get up in the morning, you choose an outfit, you know? It doesn't have to be the… — Ishmael Butler Copy Share Image
You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste. In… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
I always loved the look of musicians. I've always admired them because they have a look - when I was growing up,… — Frida Giannini Copy Share Image
I want to be connecting with the subconscious, if I can call it that, because there are not to many words to… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
As a musician, I don't have one thing that's "my thing." I like to create, and have a lot of outlets for… — Chick Corea Copy Share Image
Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician. Maybe an artist.… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Essentially, the popular musician in America must learn that his basic job is to entertain people, to make them forget their sorrows… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? There is a brotherhood among… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't… — Bryan Adams Copy Share Image
I've never been more moved by a voice than I have been by Roy Orbison. I loved him personally, and I loved… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
The people who make it to the top - whether they're musicians, or great chefs, or corporate honchos - are addicted to… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
The fact that a total of 18 musicians humbly came together to share the glory and create something this original, epic, and… — James Moore Copy Share Image
I had gotten to know the music scene there, and just fell in love with it. I've lived there a little over… — Sarah Jaffe Copy Share Image
Freddie [Highmore] is great in the movie [August Rush]. It comes out this Fall and I play a young cellist, a prodigy,… — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
You need contrast and conflict in order to tell a story. Stories need to have dark and light, turmoil, all those things.… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Like the musician, the painter, the poet, and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made. And he is… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
God is the ultimate musician. His music transforms your life. The notes of redemption rearrange your heart and restore your life. His… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the 'Modifier's Madness.'… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
There's something really natural to me about being what they call in the business a "hyphenate." Being a musician-actor or writer-musician-actor. — Lola Kirke Copy Share Image
You have to be open to the energy. If you can open your heart to the energy, that great love energy, of… — Ray Manzarek Copy Share Image
Madonna is a pro. I don't like her and have no respect for her but- I don't think she should be called… — Jon Fishman Copy Share Image
I do have shout-outs to bands and musicians I like in my books, but the musical references can be misunderstood. Often, I… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
Someone once wrote that musicians are touched on the shoulder by God, and I think it's true. You can make other people… — John Berendt Copy Share Image
Music reflects the time that it's being made in, and so certainly, the music that's being made in 1986 by a 14-year-old… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
I knew a lot of my musicians used to take coke. I never saw them. They would hide it from me, so… — Giorgio Moroder Copy Share Image
The fact that I wasn't expected to read music at all and was absorbing everything by ear... it had a huge affect… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
But between sets I'd sneak over to the black places to hear blues musicians. It got to the point where I was… — Stevie Ray Vaughan Copy Share Image
The whole point of working and practicing your whole life is so that you're ready when that moment arrives; when the inspiration… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something… — Lesley Gore Copy Share Image
Musicians used to be way more instrumental just in providing a soundtrack to what's going on in the world. And it's also… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to… — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
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