Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in… — Bono Copy Share Image
Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling… — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a musician from when I was kid. It was always a massive dream of mine. School was… — Emeli Sande Copy Share Image
As worship leaders we might use music as a tool, but music is only ever just that - a tool with which… — Reuben Morgan Copy Share Image
People need to put my music in a perspective where they use other established artists from the past, and almost all the… — Sondre Lerche Copy Share Image
The idea that a musician can submit music online for the chance to have it promoted to a nationwide audience is the… — Ali Partovi Copy Share Image
I would say I'm a musician first, actually. I started playing music when I was 10. Then I started designing, went to… — Henrik Vibskov Copy Share Image
My abject hatred of actors and the acting world. I went to college as an actor, and halfway through, I switched to… — Christian Finnegan Copy Share Image
The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I thought that if I owned nothing, had nothing, was nothing, I would have nothing left to lose, and I wouldn't be… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
I think that the current climate enables a lot of musicians to do relatively well. Twenty-five years ago, you could be a… — Moby Copy Share Image
Up until the rise of electronic music, if you were a musician in Portugal or Germany or Italy or Japan, and you… — Moby Copy Share Image
The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
I think most cartoonists are solitary, lonely kids who use their work as a way to try to connect with the world.… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
I always want to be doing both to travel as a teacher and lecturer, and to be a musician. I think in… — Jonathan Batiste Copy Share Image
When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Chuck Berry told me if it wasn't for Louis Jordan, he wouldn't have probably ever even got into music. That Louis Jordan… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
You can't teach a young musician to compose any more than you can teach a delicate plant to grow, but you can… — Frederick Delius Copy Share Image
I'm a musician; I have to perform. I can't give up. I have to be even more courageous. We know that we… — Shahin Najafi Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons I'm successful as a musician is that the first like 30 shows I played, I played… — Grimes Copy Share Image
I don't deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn't deserve… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining… — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
If you are a musician and you don't show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people… — Michael Schenker Copy Share Image
The musicians, Duke Ellington, his thing was not about separating himself from the rest of America. Louis Armstrong - go to the… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're… — Bruce Jenner Copy Share Image
I wanted to get my recording and become a musician again, work; with other people, do that kind of thing because I… — Bootsy Collins Copy Share Image
The important thing for any young singer or musician is to keep focused on becoming a better musician as opposed to becoming… — Gerry Rafferty Copy Share Image
Only a small percentage of novelists, painters, musicians, scientists, anywhere in the world, are talented. But there are many more in Hollywood… — Hortense Powdermaker Copy Share Image
The musicians are good and their music is catchy - it pulls the kids in in droves. Mike Bickle admitted to me… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
Then I was lucky I met with my future husband, and I started new life with my husband, and I was happy… — Olga Korbut Copy Share Image
My brother and I grew up in a musical family. We have an older sister who sings and plays the piano. Our… — Laura Allen Copy Share Image
I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
There's been this perception that Europeans still hold on to, that they discover the real talented ones in American culture and give… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
When I went off to college, I was expecting to be a concert musician. In music school I heard all of these… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn… — Roscoe Mitchell Copy Share Image
Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them… — Youssou N'Dour Copy Share Image
The goths are beautiful, a vast depth of subcultural, aesthetic and poetic ideas, and we would identify with that as we did… — Peter Murphy Copy Share Image
I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because you want to get… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
