Always Quote by Aesop Rock

The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.

— David Byrne

Musicians and non-musicians alike are priding themselves on the width and breadth of their musical interests, which I think is to be encouraged.

— Chris Thile

I've been heavy into music.

— Le'Veon Bell

I'm not trying to sound mean spirited, but I honestly don't know of many successful musicians who get that excited about other current artists'…

— Mark Kozelek

I don't really admire musicianship per se - as is obvious from my own playing.

— Lemmy

I think one of the reasons musicians keep doing what they do and writers keep doing what they do, is that we're totally unsuited…

— Janis Ian

I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an…

— Don Ellis

I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their…

— Will Oldham

Musicians more than most people are in the moment. That's the dual nature of that job.

— Gail Zappa

Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.

— Tom Waits

By and large musicians are pretty lazy; they don't do a whole lot. They're usually very busy doing nothing.

— Buzz Osborne

There are too many heavy songs out nowadays. music has been getting too heavy, almost to the state of unbearable.

— Jimi Hendrix