Design Quote by Tony Wilson

Growing up, I was always surrounded by musicians. After I got into that trouble, got locked up and when I got out I couldn't…

— Akon

When I started to write music, I desperately wanted to relate to people. But when I became famous, I could relate less. I thought,…

— Christine and the Queens

I was never successful in a noteworthy way, no one wrote about me, and I didn't have recognition. I've met a lot of musicians…

— Lana Del Rey

It was really hard to find people to come over and play guitar and sing and write songs together. So that turned me into…

— Jack White

I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried to maintain my curiosity…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

I became an artist because I couldn't become anything else.

— Mati Klarwein

I love writing songs and being a musician, but you can't really buy the feeling of connecting with people.

— Michael Kiwanuka

I enjoyed singing and playing guitar but didn't have the stamina to make music-making a career. In reality, writing was my real gift, and…

— Ann Powers

I made an album that resonated, and I was lucky that a lot of different kinds of people liked it and contacted me to…

— Peaches

I didn't want to be an artist in the same place I worked. You could always have people that might feel like you would…

— DJ Khaled

I'm just lucky to have the type of friends and musicians and people dedicated to my music that I do.

— Wynton Marsalis

Being a full-time musician back before I had my son, it was sort of too much 'me' all the time. I felt like a…

— Domino Kirke