Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians. — Colin Greenwood Copy Share Image
I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors. — Gary Kemp Copy Share Image
I've always worked with other people. As a musician, it's your role to basically share with other people. — Thundercat Copy Share Image
I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me. — Matt Cameron Copy Share Image
I would say to anyone starting out that if their priority in life is happiness, then don't be a musician. — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with 'Stairway… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
I used to love jungle. I still think it's the ultimate genre, really, because the people making it weren't musicians. — Aphex Twin Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to do a solo project. I've always known I wanted to be a musician. — Kate Pierson Copy Share Image
Some performers are brilliant comedians, some are genius musicians, and some just make you happy to be alive. THE BOBS are all… — Paul Provenza Copy Share Image
Artists, whether they're classical musicians or pop musicians, they have always been the reflection of society, and in many ways a healing… — George Duke Copy Share Image
“I know a flute player is technically called a "flautist," but something about it sounds a little sketchy, as does "pianist," so… — Julie Halpern Copy Share Image
There are so many musicians, friends of mine, who play shows for ten people a night, or always desperately wanted a record… — Moby Copy Share Image
People make art on the sides of buildings, and they'll make art on the sides of trains. They'll make art wherever they… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
One day you pick up the guitar and you feel like a great master, and the next day you feel like a… — Tommy Emmanuel Copy Share Image
I was approached by Oxfam to go to Mali as their ambassador and get involved in their various initiatives out there. But… — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
The way so many musicians slavishly imitated Coltrane, that's the way it was with Charlie Parker - only even more so, if… — Art Pepper Copy Share Image
When Pixies broke up in 1993, I gave up the drums for the longest time. I hadn't been doing a lot, but… — David Lovering Copy Share Image
I joined the Madras Christian College but dropped out after three months. Telugu music director Ramesh Naidu asked me to assist him,… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
But the present world is also designed for something which has not yet happened. It is like a violin waiting to be… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
We'd be recording and I'd go down to Greenpoint where Rostam was living and track stuff... It was a busy time. I… — Chris Baio Copy Share Image
But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have… — Amy Ray Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I moved away from painting was because I eventually discovered that I wanted to deal more with motion,… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
I think that it's fear. The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
I wouldn't like to be in movies. Movie people are strange. They live a different life than musicians do. — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I didn't ask to be a musician, but I see the responsibility of it and I am grateful for it. — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound. — Jerry Cantrell Copy Share Image
“Everyone wanted me to be the bad boy, the label wanted it, the publicists wanted it, but I was just trying to… — Cassandra Giovanni Copy Share Image
I just always knew that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician. I never had any doubts. — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
I never looked at being a musician any different than waking up one day and wanting to be an accountant or a… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
I feel blessed to be a musician, and I know it's a power given to me from God that I must use… — Vusi Mahlasela Copy Share Image
I'm a musician. It's what I do! I wouldn't be too good at anything else. — Chad Smith Copy Share Image
A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
When I was 12, I decided to become a musician. 'Physical Graffiti' was the first album I ever owned. — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
Don’t be sad by what you see It’s true life has it’s miseries But one thing’s always worked for me Worry ends… — Sami Yusuf Copy Share Image
What motivates me is just to do a really, really good job at something. If I were a better musician, I probably… — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share Image
To actually get together and make a band record feels like a bit of a big deal, and that can be quite… — Tracey Thorn Copy Share Image
