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
I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities. — Mary Timony Copy Share Image
“You can take and nail two sticks together like they've never been nailed together before and some fool will buy it.” — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I have musician friends who play too much golf, and they're not as good at music anymore. — Raphael Saadiq Copy Share Image
I feel that musicians are in a fellowship, and that fellowship is a responsibility. — Meshell Ndegeocello Copy Share Image
[Louis Armstrong] was the only musician who ever lived, who can't be replaced by someone. — Bing Crosby Copy Share Image
Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed. Any child who is properly trained can develop… — Shinichi Suzuki Copy Share Image
Being a musician since I was a teen, Guitar Center is the staple. You need anything to create, it's there. You need… — Steve Aoki Copy Share Image
The only thing I wouldn't like to do is to play roles as a musician. I'm not sure that I would be… — Larry Mullen, Jr Copy Share Image
I have a very difficult time describing my music. Because I run into people in the hardware store and they go, 'Oh,… — Les Claypool Copy Share Image
I really had a great time working with 'Modest Mouse,' just because of the people. I loved writing songs with Isaac Brock,… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
No, it's the musicians and I must say they are an accomplished bunch, but odd, as musicians tend to be. Is it… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical… — Gary Burton Copy Share Image
You were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid - things you liked - on the… — Ken Robinson 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
“I remember when Elvis died. I wrote my sentiments with words of a little girl in my dear diary, "Many people wanted… — Ana Claudia Antunes 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
That's for non-musicians to say: "I only listen to this or that type of music." I think musicians love all music, or… — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
I was never totally sold on this idea that I'm just a musician. I wanted to be the Tim Burton of music. — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
Most customers, by the time the musicians reach the second set, are to some extent inebriated. They don't care what you play… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
If I wasn't a musician, I'd take up the law. They are the rottenest, wealthiest people in America. — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
To my wife, I'm not Herbie Hancock the musician. I'm her husband. When I'm talking to a neighbor, I'm a neighbor. When… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
To me, music and fashion are the same thing. A good designer is the same as an incredible musician, and the two… — Zomby Copy Share Image
The concern of the musician is to play the music. It is there demanding to be given sound to. — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different. — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I was always a musician that could play by ear better than I could analytically. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
I'm a musician, and I discovered the power of music pretty early in life. — Shruti Haasan Copy Share Image
As a musician, I have sung, composed, and played instruments, and a lesser-known fact is that I have composed 20-30 ad jingles… — Fawad Khan Copy Share Image
Many of the African musicians are well-schooled and well-versed...what they do takes a high level of musicianship. — Jake Holmes Copy Share Image
I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer - I'm going to push myself to do as many… — Lucas Grabeel Copy Share Image
Every time I play with a new musician I absorb something, even if it's someone you don't like! — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
Being a musician is a given for me-I didn't have much choice in the matter. — Tom Morello Copy Share Image