When I was younger, I always wanted to be a musician, a performer and an entertainer - but I never thought about… — Ross Lynch Copy Share Image
Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Being a rock musician is already like ego-tripping hardcore. You're self-consumed, and you're always thinking. It's really easy to say, "I'm going… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
It's easy to get on to something like alcohol or drugs so my advice to musicians is don't lose your perspective because… — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
And there are certain songs that are really timepieces and shouldn't be touched. But some of them are a celebration of good… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
I don't think in time signatures, and when I do, what I write is generally 3/4 or 4/4, the most basic, straightforward… — Blake Judd Copy Share Image
My brother was a fantastic cheerleader for my development as a musician. He was almost 10 years older than me and would… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
It is not enough to do a desktop exercise of a Beethoven symphony. You need to practice with an orchestra. The musicians… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
I criticized the whole American songwriting industry and the pop side of it and I was bitter about it. And I stepped… — Marina and the Diamonds Copy Share Image
I'm the perfect amount of guarded. I don't reveal too much, and I never reveal who the songs are about. They are… — Kelly Clarkson Copy Share Image
Patti [ Scialfa] was an artist and a musician and she was a songwriter. And she was a lot like me in… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Basically, you're still sitting there using just the muscles of your hand, really. Of one hand, actually. It's another example of the… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life.… — Mark Kozelek Copy Share Image
Photographers learn to interpret photographs in that technical way because they want to understand and use that 'language' themselves just as musicians… — Howard S. Becker Copy Share Image
Matthew Davidson is blessed with a God-given, born-in-the-bone, talent. His musicianship is far beyond his age. When I play with Matthew, it's… — Joe Osborn Copy Share Image
Having a moment of clarity was one thing; I'd had moments like that before. It had to be followed with a dedicated… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
I'm a musician and I listen to music all the time. If there's something out there where someone would tell me that… — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
I think the idea now of being a performer in this era of social media saturation means that you have to be… — Robbie Rist Copy Share Image
Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the… — Adam Rich Copy Share Image
I've dated a couple of guys who were awesome, and the celebrity part of my life and the traveling part are hard… — Kelly Clarkson Copy Share Image
I was always funny, but I wasn't a great musician, and I wanted to be a musician way more than I wanted… — Greg Behrendt Copy Share Image
If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I'm not saying I'm particularly special, but if you do something three hours a… — Kenny G Copy Share Image
First of all I think that is true, if you are a musician, particularly on the comeback that you do have to… — John Sebastian Copy Share Image
When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of… — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same… — Nat King Cole Copy Share Image
In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You gotta pick yourself up. Sometimes you just gotta do it over and over, but you gotta do it. You can't give… — Steven Adler Copy Share Image
I have a theory - if the music is good and you have good musicians, the name doesn't matter that much. There… — Joey Tempest Copy Share Image
I get to be a musician with my life, so it doesn't even matter if I'm good in it. It means at… — Jon Brion Copy Share Image
I am a musician. I didn't know I would be so when I was young. I do know that I have always… — Jane Siberry Copy Share Image
New Kids on the Block are on season two [Full House ], so that was just a huge lifelong dream come true.… — Andrea Barber Copy Share Image
I like the fans, but I don't feel an obligation that I have to be an example to them, like say maybe… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot… — Aloe Blacc Copy Share Image
Everybody can perform, there are so many outlets. Musicians are no longer limited. In the past, the record companies made most of… — Jake Holmes Copy Share Image
As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of… — Blake Judd Copy Share Image
Just listening carefully to what the musicians are really doing, putting the music in the right time... I became aware of the… — Guido Molinari Copy Share Image
I'm still on my demos. I'm still making my mind up and deciding what kind of artistic production to come in. I… — Violante Placido Copy Share Image
It's rare that I ever meet a musician who doesn't agree that music is a language. But it's very rare to meet… — Victor Wooten Copy Share Image
Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredible Christian background, and where there was a lot of… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image