Famous quotes by Musicians

"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

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

Nuno Bettencourt, Musician

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

Muddy Waters, Musician

"When I am putting looks together, I dare myself to make something work. I always look for the most interesting silhouette or something that's a little off, but I have to figure it out. I have to make it me. I think that's the thrill in fashion"

Rihanna, 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 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

"A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars"

Carly Simon, Musician

"Obviously, the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music"

Elvis Costello, Musician

"Manchester has its own pride and London has its sort of pride and sometimes we can be a bit mean to each other, but I think if we dig the music we can get on really well"

Graham Coxon, Musician

"I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time"

Elvis Costello, Musician

"That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight!"

Barry McGuire, Musician

"Simplicity makes me happy"

Alicia Keys, Musician

"Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers"

Elton John, Musician

"Today we drink, today we spend; today we smoke like a rasta"

Bad Bunny, Musician

"I'm not interested in being famous. I'm interested in making good music"

David Gilmour, Musician

"Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders"

Tony Visconti, Musician

"Love is never wrong"

Melissa Etheridge, Musician

"When they first said I made it through, it was just crazy, I mean all kinds of thoughts were going through my head, and you know, to be watching the show for nine seasons and to be on it now is surreal, it's so surreal"

Scotty McCreery, Musician

"Jim Morrison's very good looking, but I don't like this version of the song. The Feliciano version is better"

Maurice Gibb, Musician

"The type of music I like to sing is really those classic songs: those Barbara Streisand, Celine Dion, Frank Sinatra, classics"

Jacob Lusk, Musician

"Nature was my kindergarten"

William Christopher Handy, Musician

"The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming"

Aimee Mann, Musician

"Why can't I be different and unusual... like everyone else?"

Vivian Stanshall, Musician

"I keep everything that is most important to me close to me: my family, my Bible, my X-Box - just kidding"

Brian Littrell, Musician

"There is no such thing as a wrong note"

Art Tatum, Musician

"Look, you come in here tomorrow, and anything you do with your right hand I'll do with my left"

Art Tatum, Musician

"It just broke my heart, and I had to get away from it. I love them to death, but they know how bad it got. It's not their fault, but I couldn't do that any longer"

Brian Welch, Musician

"Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day"

John Mayer, Musician

"I'll always be a Backstreet Boy"

Brian Littrell, Musician

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