Hypocritical Quote by James Iha

I feel like musicians have such a precarious place in the political discourse, because musicians are, sort of just by nature, people-pleasers.

— John Flansburgh

Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their…

— Billy Corgan

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

It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good…

— Robert Smith

I know a lot of great musicians that don't know they're even great, because mangers try and make them feel belittled like they're not…

— Jim "Dandy" Mangrum

Musicians are affected by the audience just as much as audiences are affected by the musicians. The only problem is that often times musicians…

— Hamid Drake

A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren't as smart as me...

— Mark E. Smith

Musicians used to be way more instrumental just in providing a soundtrack to what's going on in the world. And it's also important to…

— Alicia Keys

There's something extremely fragile about musicians, and that's their strength.

— Lisa Gerrard

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like

— John Zorn

Some musicians don't have strong opinions, or they deliberately don't have strong opinions because they want to try and sell as many records as…

— Lauren Mayberry

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