I don't get so much inspiration from other musicians. Especially alive musicians. Late musicians are good - Bach, Beethoven - yes, good. — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
I don't think people go to musicians for their political points of view. I think your political point of view is circumstances… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians. — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
I am constantly amazed at the musicians that are able to do the same thing over and over for 20 or more… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing about what musicians do is the music. You can be as big an arsehole as you… — Peter Hook Copy Share Image
“My idea of success has little to do with fame. I just wanted to know if I could play with the best… — Artie Kane Copy Share Image
Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists... by spending time alone practicing what they love. — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Bands can become absolutely huge and actually be pretty terrible musicians, and bands can be the most amazing songwriters and musicians in… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
There's pride on Bourbon Street for the musicians that work there. They take it very seriously. I've never worked there or played… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
“But wouldn't [the Spice Girls] have shown a little bit more solidarity if they had at least called themselves feminists? The feminist… — Marisa Meltzer Copy Share Image
I love talking to other musicians on tour and finding out what we all have to do, not just as artists but… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
Well, when the Raspberries ended in early 1975 suddenly I didn't have to write to anybody's strengths or weaknesses. I was completely… — Eric Carmen Copy Share Image
When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The music is not part of this planet in a sense that the spirit of it is about happiness. Most musicians play… — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
I've followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don't have to always write in pain. You have all… — Kaki King Copy Share Image
The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
'Deconstruction' is a really heavy record, a real symphony in a lot of ways, but with heavy musicians from the metal world… — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
Musicians are also interpretive artists and we are just as creative as painters and writers. We interpret in a way that expresses… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye. He set a great example for all of us local… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
Some musicians feel they have to provide what their audiences expect. They lose the distinction between an artist and an entertainer. I… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
There's a lot of unreleased blues stuff I did with the Apollo Theater musicians, and there was of experimenting going on for… — Dion DiMucci Copy Share Image
'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
When you keep the caliber of musicians very high in the band, people are going to come and go. Some of them… — Kathy Mattea Copy Share Image
Many classical musicians lack pulse and rhythmical strength and precision, so for us it was very important to acquire and learn those. — Luka Sulic Copy Share Image
I come from an old school of thought where there are musicians on stage, in the house, sitting and jamming to create… — Jubin Nautiyal Copy Share Image
Some musicians make and record music; other musicians play in a band... I just make and record music, and I don't feel… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
While doing remixes, I get to know about a lot of musical notes that the legendary musicians have used earlier. Then I… — Tanishk Bagchi Copy Share Image
There are musicians who go through their lives sort of shedding their skins. For me, I've always felt backward-compatible to Version 1.0. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
“One can spot a fellow musician in any context, even amongst policemen. The craziest-eyed, unruliest-haired one, either hungry-skinny or jovial-portly.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge. — Bill Frisell Copy Share Image
One of the things that helped me to be confident is to be the kind of musician that I respect. I always… — India Arie Copy Share Image
A lot of my close friends are musicians and are consumed by the idea of death; their heads are like a torture… — Phoebe Bridgers Copy Share Image
“Whenever an artist becomes dominated by his own ignorance, his art loses value, for it is only the professional artist that can… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“Orpheus never liked words. He had his music. He would get a funny look on his face and I would say what… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
I never tried to emulate The Beatles, and I never really wanted to be like The Rolling Stones. I never really felt… — Rick Nielsen Copy Share Image
I met some wonderful people, who introduced me to some other musicians... I then made a little record called 'Worrisome Heart.' It… — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
As a songwriter and a singer in a successful rock band, I have had the good fortune of being surrounded by incredible… — Ed Kowalczyk Copy Share Image
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