Famous quotes by Musicians

"She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next"

Iggy Pop, Musician

"I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed"

B. B. King, Musician

"The only thing better than singing is more singing"

Ella Fitzgerald, Musician

"I'm still single, but me and Lauren are really really really close friends"

Scotty McCreery, Musician

"To me, flying free is doing what I want to do, even if it's different from what everybody expects me to do. I'm flying free when I win the battle between me and the people who thought I should go down this road and I find my own road"

Crystal Waters, Musician

"Love was not in it for me at first. I dated guys because of the way they looked. And then I began to learn that it's what's inside that counts. Love to me now is understanding. It's giving"

Crystal Waters, Musician

"I wanted to do the whole album in black and white, and it really killed me that when you see it in the light it's got green in it. I don't know what the hell that was about"

Nuno Bettencourt, Musician

"Robin had always wanted to go solo, so when it happened I wasn't angry at all. I understood the situation. But Barry is so full of pride and couldn't understand why Robin had done it"

Maurice Gibb, Musician

"As much as you put into it is as much as you get out of it"

Nuno Bettencourt, Musician

"We never let go. Ever. Even with punctuation. It's frightening. I can't see anyone from any record company ever writing an email to Neil and not getting it back, with corrections"

Chris Lowe, Musician

"To some it is Napoleon, to some it is a philosophical struggle, to me it is allegro con brio"

Arturo Toscanini, Musician

"I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory"

Muddy Waters, Musician

"I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum"

Ornette Coleman, Musician

"I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since"

Arturo Toscanini, Musician

"When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right"

Phil Ochs, Musician

"In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty"

Phil Ochs, Musician

"Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that's what caught everybody's attention. As a player, he didn't do anything amazing"

Ritchie Blackmore, Musician

"I think of the Replacements only when they're brought up to me. For two years, I'm at home, they don't really cross my mind. I still hear them on the radio. I'm not ashamed of anything we did"

Paul Westerberg, Musician

"It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name"

Dave Mustaine, Musician

"Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well"

Martin Gore, Musician

"Moving on is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard"

Dave Mustaine, Musician

"Disco was brand new then and there were a few jocks that had monstrous sound systems but they wouldn't dare play this kind of music. They would never play a record where only two minutes of the song was all it was worth. They wouldn't buy those types of records"

Grandmaster Flash, Musician

"Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression"

Dorothy Fields, Musician

"If my life was a song, it would be 'It ain't that easy being green' from Sesame Street"

Jacob Lusk, Musician

"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you"

B. B. King, Musician

"However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously"

Robert Fripp, Musician

"I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs, though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them!"

Ringo Starr, Musician

"Every dog has his day, unless he loses his tail, then he has a weak-end"

June Carter Cash, Musician

"We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul"

Conor Oberst, Musician

"All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations"

Billy Bragg, Musician

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