Famous quotes by Musicians

"The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... Music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees"

Andres Segovia, Musician

"I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus"

Kanye West, Musician

"How can my son not be straight after all I've said and done for him?"

Rod Stewart, Musician

"Every night is different, you never know what it's going to be like. I remember every night. I don't like to compare them"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"I identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"We all self-conscious, I'm just the first to admit it"

Kanye West, Musician

"If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family, they are looking for food"

Kanye West, Musician

"I love Ornette Coleman. I love Don Cherry. I love the way those guys play"

Lou Reed, Musician

"My God is rock'n'roll"

Lou Reed, Musician

"How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?"

Lou Reed, Musician

"I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way"

Holly Near, Musician

"I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it"

Holly Near, Musician

"The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him"

Cher, Musician

"I don't need a man. But I'm happier with one. I like to have someone I can touch and squeeze and kiss. But I don't fold up and die if I don't have a man around"

Cher, Musician

"I think that the longer I look good, the better gay men feel"

Cher, Musician

"There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway"

Paul McCartney, Musician

"When I began, the guitar was enclosed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, because there were no virtuoso guitarists"

Andres Segovia, Musician

"When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap"

Eminem, Musician

"I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record"

Eminem, Musician

"I've got to admit it's getting better. It's a little better all the time"

Paul McCartney, Musician

"I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, 'we really love this song'"

Paul McCartney, Musician

"Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?"

Pablo Casals, Musician

"I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true"

Pablo Casals, Musician

"I got along without you before I met you, and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone"

Willie Nelson, Musician

"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash"

Leonard Cohen, Musician

"We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it"

Willie Nelson, Musician

"To retire is to die"

Pablo Casals, Musician

"I didn't come here and I ain't leavin'"

Willie Nelson, Musician

"Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere"

Pablo Casals, Musician

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