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
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
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
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
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
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
For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad tiny tremors. The notes know no rest,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
When you write a song you're more or less saying, "This is everyone. I think this is everyone." It doesn't necessarily have… — Anthony Green Copy Share Image
People equate job titles to levels of creativity. We think that musicians are creative while accountants are not. Job title has nothing… — Josh Linkner Copy Share Image
"What can I offer you that will make you happier about how you should feel about who Angelina Jolie is?" I think… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Comedy is the drug, when they laugh it's like I'm a jazz musician and they hear it, and they get it. It's… — Alonzo Bodden Copy Share Image
When you have a sense of calling, whether it's to be a musician, soloist, artist, in one of the technical fields, or… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
I worry about that terribly because the public eye can bring all sorts of unwanted intrusions and problems. But he's treading his… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
I had to run away from home in order to be a musician. Because I came from a family of... my father… — Hugh Masekela 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
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
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
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 consider that success for anything, whether it's being a musician or a writer. As long as you can support yourself, you're… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
There won't ever be a mass-market record industry again, and that's fine with me because that industry didn't operate for the benefit… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out of… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
God is the Supreme Musician. It is He who is playing with us, on us and in us. We cannot separate God… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Well, it'll always be disco/electro-pop. That's what I first wanted to do when I started out as a musician in 1977. It's… — Pete Burns Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a singer. I wanted to be a musician. I wanted to travel and write songs and be a… — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
In my own life, I had gone from Maryland State Honors Chorus and writing and singing my own songs to a musical… — Shervin Pishevar Copy Share Image
Most musicians count at the beginning, and never count and talk to their musicians after that. They only talk to them at… — Roy Ayers Copy Share Image
Liverpool was an industrial town, a poor town. The people fought hard for what they wanted to achieve and there was a… — Pete Best Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
I never look at myself as a closet actor wanting to make music or a closet musician wanting to act — I’m… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
I really wanted a guitar. As A little boy I used to tell people I was going to be a musician. They… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it within our power to… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I've always had a problem within myself of feeling that people didn't really see me as a musician and I'm out to… — Phil Spector Copy Share Image
I'm a self-taught musician so how I read music is kind of very weak and I kind of read my own version… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
My dad was a professional musician; my mom played, too, but just for fun. All my siblings played. The house was full… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest jazz musicians will… — Ahmet Ertegun Copy Share Image
![“When you write a song you're more or less saying, "This is everyone. I think this is everyone." It doesn't necessarily have to be this thing where I go out and I'm like candy-striping, or becoming a therapist or something. I think that maybe, maybe I'm supposed to [be a musician], because of that…” quote by Anthony Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90f/anthony-green-30170_becoming_when-you-write-a-song-you-re-more-or-les_255172.jpg)
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