Famous quotes by Musicians

"Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it"

Waylon Jennings, Musician

"Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... You hear them and they're affixed to you"

Carlos Santana, Musician

"For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground"

Jello Biafra, Musician

"Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it"

Jello Biafra, Musician

"Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent"

Marvin Gaye, Musician

"Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell"

Marvin Gaye, Musician

"I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes"

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

"Great artists suffer for the people"

Marvin Gaye, Musician

"I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band"

Courtney Love, Musician

"I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics"

Courtney Love, Musician

"But I always wound up being the damn John, when I wanted to be the Paul"

Courtney Love, Musician

"I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants"

Whitney Houston, Musician

"As far as being on a major label, some labels get it and get what they have to do, and some labels don't. I don't think the label I'm on necessarily gets it, but I think over time they're gonna have to"

Talib Kweli, Musician

"I choose to live, not just exist"

James Hetfield, Musician

"They believed you can't mix rock, country, and rap, and that crossover is dead. I always knew it would work. And it will always work as long as you're really into it and like what you're doing"

Kid Rock, Musician

"I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need"

Lady Gaga, Musician

"I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way"

Lady Gaga, Musician

"You leave home to seek your fortune, and when you get it, you go home and share it with your family"

Anita Baker, Musician

"The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer"

Victor Borge, Musician

"There's the soundtrack to The French Connection II'I think It's my favorite soundtrack. It hasn't been released. I actually had to go and get the film and just make a recording of it to get the music"

Jonny Greenwood, Musician

"But I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom"

Buddy Rich, Musician

"Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say: Show us what you can do"

Esa-Pekka Salonen, Musician

"Trying to force creativity is never good"

Sarah McLachlan, Musician

"I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it"

Anita Baker, Musician

"If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness"

Sarah McLachlan, Musician

"We don't do drugs, drink, or use profanity. Instead, we instill morals and values in my boys by raising them with a love of God and a love and respect for themselves and all people. I believe they will have a chance"

Anita Baker, Musician

"I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum"

Anita Baker, Musician

"Water is very forgiving. Everything lifts in water"

Sarah McLachlan, Musician

"I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else"

Jonny Greenwood, Musician

"I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that into better English for me, thank you - they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes"

Jonny Greenwood, Musician

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