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
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
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 don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to… — Earl Scruggs 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
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
The music is not part of this planet in a sense that the spirit of it is about happiness. Most musicians play… — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
No more painters, no more scribblers, no more musicians, no more sculptors, no more religions, no more royalists, no more radicals, no… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
Wait." "Stop?" I bit my lip and nodded. "Stop everything, or just go no further?" "Just...just no further." "Done." He gathered me… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
Books are frozen voices, in the same way that musical scores are frozen music. The score is a way of transmitting the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A lot of people are really quick to say, "That song sounds like this." Or you - "He's tryin' to sound like… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
I think that female musicians are constantly fighting an uphill battle in general. Even when I'm not writing heartbreak songs... the fact… — Marissa Nadler Copy Share Image
It can be difficult to mediate a compromise between what I have in my head and what the musician has in mind,… — John Dyer Baizley Copy Share Image
I have no problem with religion, and I grew up with a strong curiosity about spiritual matters, but my searching took me… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
It is not a lack of spiritual experience that leads to failure, but a lack of working to keep our eyes focused… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
One problem with a lot of musicians is that they remove themselves in a studio and make a record and assume people… — Moby Copy Share Image
I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that… — Kaskade Copy Share Image
I have a long way to go before I'd feel comfortable calling myself a musician. My dad taught me that you lay… — Rashida Jones Copy Share Image
I don't know about being an icon yet but I definitely do love fashion; it's really important for me to resemble my… — Zella Day Copy Share Image
My favorite records are by bands where the musicians are all playing like themselves, but those personalities connect in an exciting way… — Dylan Baldi Copy Share Image
If I'm not like my characters, I think just it's like a musician liking to play certain pieces of music rather than… — Elisabeth Moss Copy Share Image
Clay Cook is a first class musician. Tender tormented genius here in 'North Star'. I will kill him if he leaves my… — Zac Brown Copy Share Image
My family were symphonic musicians and in the opera. Also, it was my era, the love of radio. We used to listen… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
Appalachia is still, for American musicians, a kind of fountain of youth we always go back to, the old home place to… — Paul Burch Copy Share Image
When the musical keyboard was created in the 1970's, you had electronic geeks that had no background in music created these devises… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
The whole music industry has completely and totally changed from how it was. It's very, very different. When we started, there were… — Susan Ann Sulley Copy Share Image
I was raised a musician and I played classic music, violin, in orchestras and music comedy theaters, I have music running around… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I wish I could write librettos for the rest of my life. It is the purest of human pleasures, a heavenly hermaphroditism… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Then it evolved into more of a ballad style singer/songwriter thing. And there was a conflict in trying to merge the two… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I would not want the limitations held by the name of a classical musician. I want many people to enjoy my music… — Ji-Hae Park Copy Share Image
Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything,… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a food show.It's not just baseball people. It's a mixture of baseball people, actors, musicians, chefs and whatnot. They bring… — Prince Fielder Copy Share Image
My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my… — Toots Thielemans Copy Share Image
My dad studied at the American Conservatory in Chicago, so he lived on all those streets. He said the war probably saved… — Kim Basinger Copy Share Image
I find the fact that so few people buy albums to be strangely emancipating. There's absolutely no reason for 99% of musicians… — Moby Copy Share Image
Jazz is the greatest American art form and our greatest export. We don't pay attention to the youth of jazz, don't stoke… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
A lot of people know Dad the musician. We've always known him as Dad - who could be corny, funny, serious at… — Cedella Marley 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