Fake Quote by Ry Cooder

If you look at the history of popular music, the most successful musicians have started out being really marginal and esoteric. The Beatles and…

— Moby

Most musicians, regardless of what culture they come from, can get together and agree on some stuff about music. As there is going to…

— Jerry Garcia

Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk…

— Michael Azerrad

A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn't like that…

— Mitski

I feel like there are moments where musicians may be more interested - or culture in general - to show roots and where one…

— Ruben Isaac Albarran Ortega

I don't get so much inspiration from other musicians. Especially alive musicians. Late musicians are good - Bach, Beethoven - yes, good.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to…

— Shirley Manson

It is so hard for musicians when they step into acting is they're not coming in as a blank slate, they're coming in with…

— Shirley Manson

The trouble with most musicians today is that they are copycats. Of course you have to start out playing like someone else. You have…

— Lester Young

Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.

— Marilyn vos Savant

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

When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.

— Sade Adu