Some people don't listen to my music because they say that I am an artist. And some don't want to go to… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
What a strange thing - that musicians grant permission to places like Ubuweb, and then because it's free, it'll probably be listened… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
I knew nothing of the life of a real musician, of course, but somehow I seemed to see myself standing in front… — Lawrence Welk Copy Share Image
I wasn't really into music. I was into the streets. I was too worried about the streets and how I was going… — Lil Durk Copy Share Image
The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not… — Greg Ginn Copy Share Image
This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists... by spending time alone practicing what they love. — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing about what musicians do is the music. You can be as big an arsehole as you… — Peter Hook Copy Share Image
You need to know what makes artists tick. Having been through the process myself as a musician, since I was an early… — Tommy Mottola Copy Share Image
My life has had a lot of fits and starts: before I studied literature at all I was a musician, and began… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
If politically infused music is denied airplay, music reviews or festival stage time because it is considered "politics" rather than "art", then… — Moddi Copy Share Image
School of Rock. The best music school anywhere. This whole idea of getting kids not just taking lessons and learning notes and… — Dee Snider Copy Share Image
A lot of musicians have said things to me like, "Music saved my life". And "I'm standing on the shoulders of dozens… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
Wyclef is a musician that tried to unite as many musicians at once as possible. I am trying to be successful at… — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
It's was all the internet. I started writing songs in high school, right about the time of the onset of Napster. I… — Graham Colton Copy Share Image
My dream right now is - and I don't know how to do it, and I don't know if it will work… — Eef Barzelay Copy Share Image
I started out as a folk singer, and kinda got sidetracked playin' honky tonks and such, but I was always a working… — Ray Wylie Hubbard Copy Share Image
By the time I was a senior in high school, I was constantly with my headphones, just making music all the time.… — Nicolas Jaar Copy Share Image
I'm a folk preacher. A folk therapist. A folk musician. I come from authentically that which is of my experience. Therefore, the… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
I sat in at every club in New York City, jamming with musicians, because it felt right - and because it felt… — Ray Conniff Copy Share Image
My father, my uncles, my aunts, from my father's side and my mother's side... they were all professional musicians. My father was… — Lalo Schifrin Copy Share Image
I can change the arrangements on stage while I am playing or singing, doing signs to the musicians to change things because… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
It wasn't enough to be positive, focused and fearless, I had to take action! Musicians say that the hardest part of practicing… — Joey Reiman Copy Share Image
I had a chance to play with the best musicians that were coming through because I was pretty good myself or else… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
My intention when I came into this industry was to be a musician, not necessarily a recording artist, just a musician in… — Jon Secada Copy Share Image
I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down… — Woody Guthrie Copy Share Image
A mathematician will recognise Cauchy, Gauss, Jacobi or Helmholtz after reading a few pages, just as musicians recognise, from the first few… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
All talk of method and style seemed suddenly trivial; I became interested in meaning. I wanted to say something musically about life… — Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Copy Share Image
Much of my writing has taken the form of a pilgrimage: to sacred places that represent the best of America, to musicians… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
And we would play together, like fine musicians should, And it would sound like music, and the music would sound good. But… — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
To say that the Afro American created jazz doesn't mean anything bad about Anglo Americans, and I always teach my younger jazz… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by… — Mick Taylor Copy Share Image
I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I… — Brendan Fraser Copy Share Image
I always thought that pop groups were going to be made up in the 21st century. It wouldn't be four musicians, as… — Paul Morley Copy Share Image
It's always surprised me that mainstream America had the good taste to like R.E.M. It doesn't have the digestible quality the general… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Playing drums or music, being a musician, is inside of you. So you would always see me tapping on something, playing on… — Eric Hernandez Copy Share Image
I have a music career as well, so I was going to either be an actress or a musician. Then, I did… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
