Both of my parents are actually music teachers. I think I got to a certain age where I decided I'd rather be… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
I'm not a politician, I'm a musician. I care about giving people a place where they can go to enjoy themselves and… — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
You won't see me at a microphone singing and tapping my foot. I spend a lot of money on sets, costumes and… — Barbara Mandrell Copy Share Image
I'd actually say that every musician is a human being, and that not everybody likes being social. But with music, there are… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I wanted to be a musician. I used to play the trumpet. I practiced all the time,… — Zach Woods Copy Share Image
Also, I'd like to play an athlete again, while I'm still physically fit, or a musician, like Nat King Cole, because I… — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Copy Share Image
Music is the only thing in this world, with the exception of sneezing and looking at the sunset, that takes you to… — Stephan Jenkins Copy Share Image
Recording in Nashville was absolutely essential to get the sound, the musicians, the atmosphere, the warmth... There are just cult places like… — Roch Voisine Copy Share Image
Athletes and musicians make astronomical amounts of money. People get paid $100 million to throw a baseball! Shouldn't we all take less… — Kid Rock Copy Share Image
You don't see the European classical musicians allowing the music of Bach, Brahms, or Beethoven to become extinct. That music has gone… — Rahsaan Roland Kirk Copy Share Image
I like the communication and trust that comes from a long-term relationship. When you really know people as musicians and as people,… — Dave Liebman Copy Share Image
There was a time when hip-hop was its own musical principle, aside from sampling. Like the entire Wild Style break is instrumental.… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
The ideal set-up would be the story man, the director, and the layout man, as well as musician, operating as a sort… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
The trouble with most musicians today is that they are copycats. Of course you have to start out playing like someone else.… — Lester Young Copy Share Image
Straight away, remove yourself from the field of spiritual progression , stay away from contemplation and skillful discourse, do not do research… — Abhinavagupta Copy Share Image
I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
From their '61 Cavern Club debut to their last rooftop concert eight years later, The Beatles gave every serious artist in their… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
All professionals, whether physicists, economists or musicians, live by and for peer judgment, even when they are being paid by people who… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
To do an extreme metal record is something that is well within my capacity as a musician to write stuff out of… — Phil Anselmo Copy Share Image
I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that is not… — Nat Wolff Copy Share Image
Beck is obviously a consummate musician. He plays instruments, many instruments. He can make his own record without having a fleet of… — Michael McDonald Copy Share Image
It's this funny thing now: You sign up to be a musician because you want to write music, but you don't spend… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share Image
Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I became a man in New York. New York made me the musician that I am and the person that I am,… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
This is a great opportunity for musicians to display their talent by re-interpreting some classic Kinks songs. Good luck, enjoy, be creative...… — Ray Davies Copy Share Image
There were definitely bands and musicians I liked that drove my mother insane. I probably liked them all the more for it!… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
I talked to ex-wives of musicians of the '70s for research. They're the funniest people in the world, yet there is this… — Kate Hudson Copy Share Image
When I came to New York, to Brooklyn, I met Alvin Ailey and Stanley Crouch and August Wilson. They were always putting… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
We ought to give our friend pain if it will benefit him, but not to the extent of breaking off our friendship;… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
It was actually the production group that ended up producing the show for us...Every musician, especially in the hip-hop community, you always… — Mike Stud Copy Share Image
Most people/musicians hear things differently and what might please one might not please another. One man's meat is another man's poison. Don't… — Allan Holdsworth Copy Share Image
