When I was a little boy, I told my dad, 'When I grow up, I want to be a musician.' My dad… — Chet Atkins Copy Share Image
My family is full of musicians, and a couple of times a year we get together and jam at my cousin's studio.… — Gabriel Macht Copy Share Image
I can only speak for myself - there were times when I just wasn't inspired by creating music. — Common Copy Share Image
When it comes to touch and feel as a musician, style is infinitely more important than chops. — Kemp Muhl Copy Share Image
Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme. — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
Ideally the point of music is community, not the player. Musicians are simply channels to link the audience to the music and… — Trey Anastasio Copy Share Image
Aside from comic book heroes, the only real life heroes I had were musicians. — Andy Biersack Copy Share Image
When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different. — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
I hate fame. There's this assumption that everyone wants it - that by being a musician, I've signed up for it at… — Chet Faker Copy Share Image
Most things in my life I had before leaving home. Values, support, great family. I was shaped at an early age. A… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
That was how I got into music and art was being a battle kid from Jersey, so I didn't have these wonderful… — Doseone Copy Share Image
School was pretty good about letting me take up music and that's where I had my first musical ideas and first said,… — James Blunt Copy Share Image
I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I want to try it again and again, and a lot of times my fellow musicians… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The new king [Alexander the Great] should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I’ve had the pleasure of hearing The Novelists perform live. They are gifted songwriters and talented musicians with strong lead voices. This… — Daryl Stuermer Copy Share Image
I never really trained to be a musician, but I've been playing guitar since I was around, like, 13 years old. For… — Steve Kazee Copy Share Image
I think so much of our society is geared towards mainstream media and pop culture and so forth. And there's a huge… — Bruce Pavitt Copy Share Image
One answer to why public interest in men's tennis has been on the wane in recent years is an essential and unpretty… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Percy France told me, similarly, he and Bird used to hang out. They were good buddies. And he said, "Man, we'd just… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
Worship is not music. We can certainly worship Him without musicians and without a song. And by the way, God does not… — Steven Rice Copy Share Image
One way of working is just bring a group of totally different musicians together and encourage them to stick to their guns,… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man,… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
My goal is to live the truly religious life, and express it in my music. If you live it, when you play… — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
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