I was lucky enough to first meet Elvis at his house in Bel Air and he used to invite different artists, singers… — Jackie DeShannon Copy Share Image
And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be… — Katey Sagal Copy Share Image
I'm a terrible musician. While the band members are great, I'm tolerated and affectionately regarded because I do movies, but if I… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
When you're making your living as a writer or an artist or a musician, you kind of live in a trance. You're… — Stephen R. Bissette Copy Share Image
Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling… — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
As worship leaders we might use music as a tool, but music is only ever just that - a tool with which… — Reuben Morgan Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a musician from when I was kid. It was always a massive dream of mine. School was… — Emeli Sande Copy Share Image
I don't like every other musician's work. The same way that filmmakers don't like every other filmmakers' work. Just because I'm a… — Kathleen Hanna 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
All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time.… — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
I’ve worked with such legendary guitar players as Allan Holdsworth, Ronnie Montrose, Eric Clapton, Lowell George and Steve Vai, but none of… — Ted Templeman Copy Share Image
I think people who basically do one thing like Eric Clapton is great. But I've always enjoyed playing different kinds of music… — Jack Bruce Copy Share Image
A conundrum of music is that music brings people together, yet to become a skilled musician involves a certain amount of lonely… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
Your development as a musician will come to an eventual standtill if you do not develop yourself as a human being. Only… — Carl Orr Copy Share Image
I'm not a things person. I'm not one to keep much. I do have a small collection of picks from favorite musicians… — Chris Wyse Copy Share Image
As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in… — Bono Copy Share Image
I don't think my skill level is up there as a musician. I think I'm best at writing in general. The musicians… — Ian Simpson Copy Share Image
I hope America sees I am a goofy guy andI'm kind a crazy, I hope they see that I am a musician… — Casey Abrams Copy Share Image
I have no illusions about being a genius musician. I pride myself on being a soldier, a warrior for jazz. I trained… — Phil Woods Copy Share Image
Music is not everything in life. If a young musician looks at it that way, then he can just play his instrument… — Joe Zawinul Copy Share Image
I started as a musician, then I was a singer. I sang with the band. Then I was an actor in the… — Hal Linden Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm struggling now, and nearly every musician I know feels that way - even the most successful ones. I… — Eleanor Friedberger Copy Share Image
I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up… — Glenn Frey Copy Share Image
When someone is a musician - trying to make a living off being a public figure - it's really easy for people… — Mitski Copy Share Image
As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons I'm successful as a musician is that the first like 30 shows I played, I played… — Grimes Copy Share Image
You can't teach a young musician to compose any more than you can teach a delicate plant to grow, but you can… — Frederick Delius Copy Share Image
I'm a musician; I have to perform. I can't give up. I have to be even more courageous. We know that we… — Shahin Najafi Copy Share Image
I would say I'm a musician first, actually. I started playing music when I was 10. Then I started designing, went to… — Henrik Vibskov Copy Share Image
Chuck Berry told me if it wasn't for Louis Jordan, he wouldn't have probably ever even got into music. That Louis Jordan… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
People need to put my music in a perspective where they use other established artists from the past, and almost all the… — Sondre Lerche Copy Share Image
The idea that a musician can submit music online for the chance to have it promoted to a nationwide audience is the… — Ali Partovi Copy Share Image
Only a small percentage of novelists, painters, musicians, scientists, anywhere in the world, are talented. But there are many more in Hollywood… — Hortense Powdermaker Copy Share Image
The important thing for any young singer or musician is to keep focused on becoming a better musician as opposed to becoming… — Gerry Rafferty Copy Share Image
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