Activity Quote by Ornette Coleman

When people ask me how they should approach performance, I always tell them the professional musician should aspire to the state of the beginner.

— Yo-Yo Ma

The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad…

— Andy Rooney

It's the hardest thing for a young player to develop. At the same time a young player also has to deliver their musicality to…

— Jimmy Heath

A conundrum of music is that music brings people together, yet to become a skilled musician involves a certain amount of lonely time in…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.

— Les Paul

A lot of people just love music, especially a lot of aspiring artists. They just want to jump in and start making music. They…

— LeCrae

I've always been serious about music. After you've done it for so many years, you get back to the basics.

— Brian McKnight

Music is a way of opening up.

— Rod Wave

We just feel like whoever is doing music, they express themselves the best way they can from what they know.

— Sisqo

It is the height of professionalism to be able to make an ordinary piece of music sound good. When playing routine melodic studies the…

— Howard Snell

"Music is something that professionals do and not something that I do." That's not natural. Music belongs to everybody.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I encourage people not to be passive consumers of music and of culture in general. And feeling like, yeah, you can enjoy the products…

— David Byrne