Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves… — Bob Marley Copy Share Image
It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist. — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
The Red Comyns had always done well behind the throne. The king was but an instrument, as his father used to say.… — Robyn Young Copy Share Image
All of the musicians when I was young used to always say you had to tell a story when you're a musician. — Dave Holland Copy Share Image
Musicians always come off sounding a little bit pretentious, and a little bit... I don't know, hypocritical, from what they do, talking… — James Iha Copy Share Image
All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it,… — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
I have got to look at the flip side of things, because, in a way, music is always a conversation, you know?… — DJ /rupture Copy Share Image
Sculptors, poets, painters, musicians-they're the traditional purveyors of Beauty. But it can as easily be created by a gardener, a farmer, a… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
From a very young age I had an ambition to be a musician, and to do that professionally. That's what I pursued… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
We [with David Cunningham] did do Top Of The Pops. It was an eye-opener. I mean, one of the things that was… — David Toop Copy Share Image
I have a problem with capitalism, in it's extreme sense. At the same time communism, I have a problem with that, because… — Jaz Coleman Copy Share Image
Almost all the producers I know and dig, like Quincy Jones or Brian Eno, are really musicians first. I'm a composer, an… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
Most people/musicians hear things differently and what might please one might not please another. One man's meat is another man's poison. Don't… — Allan Holdsworth Copy Share Image
Athletes and musicians make astronomical amounts of money. People get paid $100 million to throw a baseball! Shouldn't we all take less… — Kid Rock Copy Share Image
You don't see the European classical musicians allowing the music of Bach, Brahms, or Beethoven to become extinct. That music has gone… — Rahsaan Roland Kirk Copy Share Image
I like the communication and trust that comes from a long-term relationship. When you really know people as musicians and as people,… — Dave Liebman Copy Share Image
There was a time when hip-hop was its own musical principle, aside from sampling. Like the entire Wild Style break is instrumental.… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
I do believe it's possible to play a lot without overplaying. It's when a musician becomes too self-centred that it becomes problematic.… — Robben Ford Copy Share Image
Something special can happen late at night in a jazz club. As the crowd thins, the musicians intuitively sense that those few… — Patricia Barber Copy Share Image
I think that-that anyone, the painter, the musician, the writer works in a-a kind of an-an insane fury. He's demon-driven. He can… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they… — Dave Van Ronk Copy Share Image
Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
I realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop… — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
I’ve broken a cardinal rule of art, music, and career paths: actors are supposed to act, and musicians are supposed to music.… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a… — Levon Helm Copy Share Image
I've grown to love California: It's the dream of every English musician to come here and work in the sunshine. To walk… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
Musicians are affected by the audience just as much as audiences are affected by the musicians. The only problem is that often… — Hamid Drake Copy Share Image
I just hope that I'll stay around musically for as long as I can. I love to think that I will still… — George Michael Copy Share Image
A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don’t feel great about,… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
Bird's mind and fingers work with incredible speed. He can imply four chord changes in a melodic pattern where another musician would… — Leonard Feather Copy Share Image
Life is one big road with lots of signs, So when you riding through the ruts, Don't you complicate your mind Flee… — Bob Marley Copy Share Image
There are street artists. Street musicians. Street actors. But there are no street physicists. A little known secret is that a physicist… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I have always dreamt of becoming an artist, and I have always pursued that dream. But I’ve had to realize, that I… — Finn Juhl Copy Share Image
Many of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives to try to become pertinent. And, at the end of the… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
To date, [Wynton] Marsalis has received a total of nine Grammy Awards; a Pulitzer Prize (the first ever awarded to a jazz… — Randy Sandke Copy Share Image
I just love the process of working with other actors. It's like jamming with a musician, except it takes a little more… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
Music is the most important thing. I'm thinking of my future. There has to be something new, and I want to be… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
I liked rock music going back to the '60s, but I never ever had any desire to be a rock musician and… — Glenn Branca Copy Share Image
As a composer you want to tell musicians two completely contradictory things. You want to say, "Play exactly what I wrote, but… — Nico Muhly Copy Share Image
![“We [with David Cunningham] did do Top Of The Pops. It was an eye-opener. I mean, one of the things that was so interesting - I've talked about this a few times recently, and people can't believe it - they used to do this thing called tape switch with the Musicians Union.” quote by David Toop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea7/david-toop-17674_believe_we-with-david-cunningham-did-do-top-of-t_2254449.png)
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