Reinvention is the biggest gift I've been given. I've gone from graffiti artist to jewellery maker, urban musician to conductor. — Goldie Copy Share Image
I didn't take music seriously in the beginning. It just kind of a hobby to me. It was something that I love… — Yuna Copy Share Image
Everyone thought my first album would be instrumental, but I didn't want to do it - it took me eight months to… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
Up-and-coming musicians can easily reach out and find a loving teacher, and that's definitely what happened to me. — Esperanza Spalding Copy Share Image
As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future. — Dizzy Gillespie Copy Share Image
People who have gone, are still here, in us. Places we came from, are carried to the places we go. — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also. — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it. — Charlie Parker Copy Share Image
I was worried that I didn't have as many Facebook 'likes' as another musician. You can almost feel like a failure if… — Erika M. Anderson Copy Share Image
I guess fortunate that I'm still around and I emphasize I guess because you never can tell what musicians would be playing… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
It's all about synthesis, you don't have to be a real musician. You just synthesize your own reality, synthesize your own talents.… — Klayton Copy Share Image
Whenever I release a record, it's my record. It's not a selfish thought. I may work all year 'round for other people.… — Eberhard Weber Copy Share Image
But I never imagined that I could ever have a career in music. I always thought it was like a mafia, that… — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
“A good guitarist will always try to get the best out of the instrument that they are holding in their hands. The… — André van Eck Copy Share Image
There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
I think one of the things which always is forgotten in music class, is the first thing you have to do as… — Hans Zimmer 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
Essentially, the popular musician in America must learn that his basic job is to entertain people, to make them forget their sorrows… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
Interestingly, I matured as a musician and as an artist before I matured as a man. What I mean by that is,… — Miguel Copy Share Image
It's always difficult to define what jazz is or what jazz isn't. To me, the only definition that I can think of… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
“I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and winter came and… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
I was off the scene for a while during the ska period and when I returned and joined the Treasure Isle studio,… — Alton Ellis Copy Share Image
I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also… — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
I had the opportunity, as a child, to grow up in a community center where I was exposed to theater, music, art,… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well. — Andres Segovia Copy Share Image
A very talented player and all around excellent musician. I love hearing his records on radio! — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
As a youngster, I never dreamed there could be a career actually earning a living writing music. — John Williams Copy Share Image
'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
I got by as a musician since day one. I don't live beyond my means. I have real cheap tastes. — Chris Isaak Copy Share Image
Finding a good bus driver can be as important as finding a good musician. — Reba McEntire Copy Share Image
Every musician out there wants to be judged on the merit of their songwriting, the merit of their performing abilities. — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful. And if you think it's beautiful, maybe they… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
When I look back on my life, I don't have regrets about what I didn't do. If I'd become a musician, it… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
“While I am so afraid to fail so I won't even try, Well how can I say I'm alive.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Classical musicians go to the conservatories, rock´n roll musicians go to the garages. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
If you're trying to connect to people with music - it's more of an outward process and a lot of times musicians… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
We all grew up idolizing another musician. That's how this works. That's how music is created. — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an… — Lance Bass Copy Share Image
