You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when you're not making money, people think… — Pete Fountain Copy Share Image
I'm in a very good place now because I do theater, I do TV and I make movies. I was a dancer,… — Richard Sammel Copy Share Image
The reason that I'm here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist --… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I like to follow my favorite team and talk sports with my band or fans. You won't believe how many musicians are… — Garth Brooks Copy Share Image
I'm a producer. I'm a musician. And my job is to come in and, you know, put - you know, I treat… — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
Music is entirely subjective. I was thinking that for myself, for songwriting and what I like to listen to, to help motivate… — Marnie Stern Copy Share Image
The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It's definitely about the rhythm of the words and how they sound together, writing one sentence and then another and another and… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
I work with musicians whose opinions I respect and if they don't like something they don't hold back. They'll say, 'That really… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Sometimes listening to music can motivate you. It can. But if you're a musician, that isn't always the way to get new… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
I do not believe, as do so many musicians, that genius should be left to fight its way to the light. Genius… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
The only reward the musician receives is music: the privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
She [Joni Mitchell] wanted to have that (jazz) element in her music. Of course, when she heard Jaco's [Jaco Pastorius'] music and… — Don Alias Copy Share Image
My dad's side of the family had lots of artists and musicians. There's an emotional, quite sentimental quality to Slavic culture. It's… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
You're collaborating with people you don't even know, when you're making a film. You're collaborating with people you've never seen. So, the… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I feel very strongly that if you got rid of all of the autistic genetics you're not going to have any scientists.… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Even in acting, when I watch an actor who I find to be so truthful in their craft, or a musician who… — Tyler Blackburn Copy Share Image
One of the most encouraging things is to see that so many of these young musicians and worship leaders are really concerned… — Matt Redman Copy Share Image
It was about working with other musicians, but more than that it's about exploring musical areas that you could never do with… — Glenn Tipton Copy Share Image
Everybody now who's playing in Unicorn band is deeply schooled in music. I'm the only one who's self-taught, which I think is… — Nicholas Thorburn Copy Share Image
If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones,… — Bill Wyman Copy Share Image
After seeing what I have seen on my journey, my advice to upcoming musicians would have to be... always have your vision… — Chronixx Copy Share Image
When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes… — Andres Segovia Copy Share Image
Music to me is something that I didn't choose; it was a necessity. I grew up with music, my father is a… — Ingrid Michaelson Copy Share Image
I think you have to know exactly what you want. Whether you want to be a guitar player or a musician, you… — Jonny Lang Copy Share Image
I haven't had that many people onstage for a while, and I'm looking forward to that. They're all such creative musicians in… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
I'll probably pay more attention to the musicians in the pit than the stars because they're the closest you're going to get… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
I'd like to think I've left something in the world. Without in any way trying to be morbid, but life is very… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
How did I end up right here wit you after all the things that I been through. It's been one of those… — Drake Copy Share Image
“Chris was in the rocker, fully clothed, and was strumming idly on Cory's guitar. "Dance, ballerina, dance," he softly chanted, and his… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
To me, groups of musicians playing together, not fighting each other, but playing a groove together is one of the most exciting… — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
If we want to be musicians, dancers or sportspeople, we can download a certain amount and watch DVDs and read books, but… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I can tell for sure, the technologists have made it clear that they don't care about musicians. The arts have been sacrificed… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
As a musician and a guitar player, I can noodle as well as anybody. But from my background as a session musician,… — Richie Sambora Copy Share Image
My interactions with musicians have been simply that: interactions with musicians. Issues of gender, or anything else beyond the music-making, have in… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
I think a politician would be very, very cool to play. Or an American musician of some sort, or like an American… — Jake Abel Copy Share Image
I can't sing “I Believe I Can Fly”. I sing that horrible. But I can sing “I Gotta Feeling” good. I wrote… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
![“She [Joni Mitchell] wanted to have that (jazz) element in her music. Of course, when she heard Jaco's [Jaco Pastorius'] music and met him, that floored her -- really grabbed her. She decided that Wayne Shorter was really conducive to her music. She would speak metaphorically about things. "I want…” quote by Don Alias](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3d/don-alias-49528_courses_she-joni-mitchell-wanted-to-have-that-ja_246804.jpg)
