The shelf life of an artist or musician isn't particularly long. — Frances Bean Cobain Copy Share Image
I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it. — Diana Krall Copy Share Image
I didn't really intend on having a music career. It just kind of happened. — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
There's a lot of different forms of communication, but music is absolutely the purest one. — Duane Allman Copy Share Image
The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing. — Buddy Guy Copy Share Image
The Daryls House thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way… — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
I'm not in it for my health. I'm a musician and I wanna live the way I do. — Levon Helm Copy Share Image
I don't think you can learn to be a complete musician. That has to come from within, and it entails a lot… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
Musicians are so well covered in the press, it would be great to see more outspoken practitioners of green life. — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
I think people want to put you in a box and close it away so that it makes them feel better. A… — Daniel Powter Copy Share Image
Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures.… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Now, by and large, people are recording material to put on YouTube. I have a theory that YouTube is, in the end,… — Travis Morrison Copy Share Image
Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
"Jazz" to begin with, is a really bad word... all the true musicians that really play jazz, jazz is the worst word… — Eldar Djangirov Copy Share Image
'Master Blaster,' by Stevie Wonder, is up-tempo and fun, like Stevie himself. Stevie's always making jokes; he really knows how to put… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
I saw a nice interview with Dave Binney recently. He was saying, "Man it was never easy. It's not like 'Oh wow,… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become… — Peter Tork Copy Share Image
I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Photography is not easy. You know it takes a painter or a sculpture or a musician years to perfect their technique. Then… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
For starters, I should just tell you that The Band was always my favorite band from the first moment that I heard… — Colin Linden Copy Share Image
The human genome will not help us to understand the spiritual side of humankind, or to know who God is or what… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
When we talk of architecture, people usually think of something static; this is wrong. What we are thinking of is an architecture… — Carlo Carra Copy Share Image
I thought "I don't need to reach out to my fans, I don't need to have that dialogue with them." But as… — Bryan Greenberg Copy Share Image
Punk, and rock in general, is often very myopic. When people sing about "the world," they're generally focused almost entirely on the… — G.W. Sok Copy Share Image
The characteristics of a good musician can be summarized as follows: 1. A well-trained ear. 2. A well-trained intelligence. 3. A well-trained… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
Boulez's only concern is with power. He lost the leadership of the avant-guard more than ten years ago to Stockhausen. Now others… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves. — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
