Famous quotes by Musicians

"I am a practicing Buddhist. I have been for 25 years"

Tina Turner, Musician

Tina Turner

"Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something"

Frank Zappa, Musician

Frank Zappa

"Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read"

Frank Zappa, Musician

Frank Zappa

"Tone has the living soul"

Shinichi Suzuki, Musician

Shinichi Suzuki

"The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents"

Shinichi Suzuki, Musician

Shinichi Suzuki

"Art exists for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you should burn with the obligation to save the world"

Shinichi Suzuki, Musician

Shinichi Suzuki

"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical"

Jim Morrison, Musician

Jim Morrison

"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask"

Jim Morrison, Musician

Jim Morrison

"The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them"

Elvis Presley, Musician

Elvis Presley

"Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it"

Elvis Presley, Musician

Elvis Presley

"As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more"

Neil Young, Musician

Neil Young

"All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be"

Pink Floyd, Musician

Pink Floyd

"You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die"

John Lennon, Musician

John Lennon

"If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'"

John Lennon, Musician

John Lennon

"Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions"

Oscar Hammerstein II, Musician

Oscar Hammerstein II

"You've got to be taught to hate and fear"

Oscar Hammerstein II, Musician

Oscar Hammerstein II

"What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?"

Freddie Mercury, Musician

Freddie Mercury

"The duty of youth is to challenge corruption"

Kurt Cobain, Musician

Kurt Cobain

"I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right"

Ziggy Marley, Musician

Ziggy Marley

"Love is more than one thing"

Ziggy Marley, Musician

Ziggy Marley

"Bad weather always looks worse through a window"

Tom Lehrer, Musician

Tom Lehrer

"You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's contagious!"

Beverly Sills, Musician

Beverly Sills

"Rock 'n' Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear"

Frank Sinatra, Musician

Frank Sinatra

"Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties"

David Bowie, Musician

David Bowie

"I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time"

David Bowie, Musician

David Bowie

"With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?"

Julian Casablancas, Musician

Julian Casablancas

"I'm 18 in this album. I'm not losing fans, and I'm not disrepecting women, but you reach the maturity of taking it to the next level with a girl. It was only necessary for me to have at least one song like that"

Chris Brown, Musician

Chris Brown

"I'll probably be punished for hard living"

Tupac Shakur, Musician

Tupac Shakur

"I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated"

Tupac Shakur, Musician

Tupac Shakur

"The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground"

Paula Cole, Musician

Paula Cole

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