City Quote by Derek Trucks

I don't like to do the same songs every night for a week. I just... it's boring and tiring and frustrating basically.

— Aesop Rock

I typically get around to most major cities at least once a year. I think people see that as their chance to go nuts…

— Girl Talk

At the end of the day music is a grind. You're constantly working at it and even with playing shows as well. If your…

— James Vincent McMorrow

People are renovating places and opening ambitious new venues. That's one thing that music does. It gets people out of their houses, and gets…

— David Byrne

Some songs, some nights won't do anything for you, but people enjoy them and that's the job. The magic is finding those places to…

— Justin Vernon

When you're playing music through the streets of London at 2 o'clock in the morning, there's something so cool and magical about that. It…

— Rachel McAdams

To just write one song to then go and play huge festivals all around the world it's exciting and it's never really been the…

— Jade Puget

The same music is playing on the radio in San Francisco, New York, Washington DC and Annapolis. Everywhere you go there's the same artists…

— John Hall

When you're traveling on a body of songs that you have played for many, many years, for most nights of your life - I'm…

— Ted Leo

It's a constant challenge to get your arrangement and musical expression across to a new audience, especially when you're playing live every night like…

— Chick Corea

The music I make is for the inner city.

— Goldie

Playing a song changes a song. Every night a song becomes something else on stage.

— Alison Mosshart