Grammy nominations are certainly pleasant, but you can forget about them and lead a perfectly happy life - provided you have the… — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
Most of the time when musicians get together, there's always that variance - always someone's a little ahead of the beat, someone's… — Alan Sparhawk Copy Share Image
Musicians are like a preacher, a teacher, an actor. You are the mediator who can transfer the energy of beautiful music to… — Demis Roussos Copy Share Image
Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians. — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way. — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
It's kind of a journalistic thing to say, 'This person is the next so and so.' I think actual musicians are never… — Corinne Bailey Rae Copy Share Image
There are musicians who wait all their lives for this award while for me it came with my first album. People have… — Chamillionaire Copy Share Image
I don't know if you have ever seen the Woody Allen film 'Annie Hall,' but it is, in a way, to Los… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced,… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
Mum left school at 15, and after a few years of modelling and dating jazz musicians, was married by 21 to my… — Natascha McElhone Copy Share Image
Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and… — Eberhard Weber Copy Share Image
I do covers for CDs and LPs of music that I like, reissues of old-time music, and then I'm inspired to make… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
When you start in any band, I don't think you have any idea as to how long your particular journey is going… — Rob Halford Copy Share Image
Maybe the idea of being a rockstar or being the one who's recording or playing, sort of doesn't really matter as much… — Adrian Grenier Copy Share Image
The first record I made, when I listen to it, I understand. I understand perfectly well why certain musicians were unhappy with… — Cecil Taylor Copy Share Image
If you're walking through the Union Square subway station - New Yorkers know it's obnoxious and crowded, and in the summer it's… — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
I've dated a few musicians in my life, and it's kind of always been that way for me. You unite through creativity… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
Even though it's become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it's still effective and it still has to… — George Michael Copy Share Image
A very few musicians passed across all decades. In terms of trumpet playing, Louis Armstrong does it of course but Sweets [Edison]… — Freddie Hubbard Copy Share Image
Punk and jazz are the opposite ends of the same spectrum because they are both looking for freedom and they give musicians… — Corinne Bailey Rae Copy Share Image
Musicians ultimately are who they are, they aren't actors, so as a clipmaker you have a responsibility to protect them. — Adria Petty Copy Share Image
I pay a lot of attention to the people I let surround me. I learn something from those people and from everyone… — J Balvin Copy Share Image
On my mom's side, the Jewish side of the family, I come from a family of musicians who are pianists, so I've… — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
Orchestral musicians have a different approach than we do, and when I say 'we,' I mean musicians who don't know what they… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
By and large musicians are pretty lazy; they don't do a whole lot. They're usually very busy doing nothing. — Buzz Osborne Copy Share Image
I think jazz is the foundation for a lot of great musicians, and then after that, you know, it's this broad expression… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
But God has a few of us to whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
I never use someone just because they are great musicians. I work with people who have the same kind of feeling towards… — Angelique Kidjo Copy Share Image
We spent a month in LA using a pool of musicians, a string arranger called Benjamin Wright, some great backing singers, and… — Jay Kay Copy Share Image
The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time. — Dionne Warwick Copy Share Image
I don't like that, because there are a lot of people whose works I admire as actors or actresses, or musicians. And… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
We're tired of band videos where all you see is musicians playing in some random church or out in a desert. — Ivan Moody Copy Share Image
Some musicians are a bit humourless about their art: they lose sight of the fact that as well as exercising their muse,… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
You'll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
Just because you put super great musicians together, it doesn't mean you're going to have that chemistry as a band. — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not. — Luther Allison Copy Share Image
Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough. — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
I hung at the studio. Myself and James Booker and several other musicians, as kids, we just literally hung at the studio,… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
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