One of the great things about being in a band is that you meet so many other musicians who will turn you… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
We have to keep in practice like musicians. Besides, there are still potentialities to be realized in color film. To us, it's… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
I grew up in a classical music household. My dad is a phenomenal musician who can play any and all instruments, can… — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
In most of the stuff that I've done over the years as a sideman, I wasn't really a session musician, because to… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
I just like dealing with scientists for awhile and then going over and dealing with musicians for awhile. They both have qualities… — Jonathan Meiburg Copy Share Image
Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I read an interview with a Japanese freestyle jazz musician once, and he said something like, "Everything I'm going to tell you… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
I visit studios. Just to get the feel, the smell, and see what other people are doing. Not only listening to the… — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
Go find very early versions of things: the first TV pilot of a later-successful TV show; early audition tapes by famous actors;… — Derek Sivers Copy Share Image
“Remember this, son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can’t sing. Words have to find a man’s… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing about playing is to walk out with confidence, look the people right in the eye and… — Les Paul Copy Share Image
If a musician wants to blossom into a full-fledged person, it's not enough if he knows only classical music; nor it is… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
Why do we idolise Christian singers and speakers? We go from glorifying musicians in the world to glorifying Christian musicians. It's all… — Keith Green Copy Share Image
I have no ear for music. When I attend a concert, I endeavor gamely to follow the sequence and relationship of sounds… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Being a musician, being a person who's playing tours and making records is a part-time thing for me at age. I did… — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
You know, I always say musicians, they can do it on their own. They can practice their violin on their own. A… — Anne Archer Copy Share Image
From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
I was never successful in a noteworthy way, no one wrote about me, and I didn't have recognition. I've met a lot… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
The songs, if I write alone in a room, end up being a little more quiet, a little more subdued. If I… — Marketa Irglova Copy Share Image
America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I had a really nice association with Richie DeRosa, a great musician, a great drummer and composer and arranger. And I had… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
The hounding of a dog pursuing a fox or other animal in the horizon may have first suggested the notes of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I love being alive and I will be the best man I possibly can. I will take love wherever I find it… — Duane Allman Copy Share Image
My brother is the lifelong musician; he made the choice to do that when we were very, very young kids. I remember… — Kevin Bacon Copy Share Image
I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up… — Chad Smith Copy Share Image
I think it's something to do with the structural quality of the songs. We weren't actually trying to make stuff that was… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
There are five things to write songs about: I'm leaving you. You're leaving me. I want you. You don't want me. I… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
There isn't a difference between how I feel in the world and how I feel as a musician, or someone who writes.… — Wesley Eisold Copy Share Image
Ultimately, what we do as musicians, I think of us as a type of emotional engineer. We essential take these sound waves,… — Stefon Harris Copy Share Image
Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life. But I had an insight that maybe we would… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share Image
What you learn from working with other performers and musicians is invaluable, really, and can only help you grow. I mean, if… — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist.… — Donal Henahan Copy Share Image
I realized, that the life of a musician, even of a very lucky, very successful musician, wasn't really the life I wanted:… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
...If I continued to harbour any hope for music it lay in the expectation that a musician might come who was sufficiently… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat… — Eleanor Robson Belmont Copy Share Image
I used to want to be a singer and a musician for years, from 6 years old to today. I'm not really… — Tommy Davidson Copy Share Image
The main thing a musician would like to do is to give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things… — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
Musicians, actors, writers - we're all neurotic, odd people who've lucked into accidental careers. So I just don't like being around public… — Moby Copy Share Image
