Famous quotes by Musicians

"The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape"

Leonard Cohen, Musician

"There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it"

Beck, Musician

"If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?"

Beck, Musician

"There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit songs and rapping over them. It gave publishers license to get a little greedy"

Beck, Musician

"Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way"

Beck, Musician

"Drugs will have a huge effect on my work for the rest of my life, whether I'm using or not"

Layne Staley, Musician

"My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never"

Duke Ellington, Musician

"I'm not chic, I could never be chic"

Sid Vicious, Musician

"For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness"

Reba McEntire, Musician

"We are better than anyone, ain't we? Except for the Eagles, the Eagles are better than us"

Sid Vicious, Musician

"The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance"

Sid Vicious, Musician

"I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues"

Duke Ellington, Musician

"Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young"

Duke Ellington, Musician

"When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself"

Layne Staley, Musician

"Whatever dramas are going on in my life, I always find that place inside my head where I see myself as the cleanest, tallest, strongest, wisest person that I can be"

Layne Staley, Musician

"People have a right to ask questions and dig deep when you're hurting people and things around you"

Layne Staley, Musician

"I sing like a lark"

Layne Staley, Musician

"I haven't read anything but regurgitated rumors. Nothing new, and nothing true"

Layne Staley, Musician

"Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that"

Layne Staley, Musician

"My family, you know, are all still, you know, very close. We're all still very close. Mom and Daddy are still alive. So, what more can you ask for? Your kids are healthy"

Reba McEntire, Musician

"It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back"

Mick Jagger, Musician

"The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone"

Mick Jagger, Musician

"Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope"

Mick Jagger, Musician

"A good thing never ends"

Mick Jagger, Musician

"I got nasty habits; I take tea at three"

Mick Jagger, Musician

"I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs"

Mick Jagger, Musician

"A lot of times songs are very much of a moment that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day"

Mick Jagger, Musician

"It's typical of record companies. They sign you because you're unique, and then they want to put you in a mold so they can sell records"

Al Jourgensen, Musician

"On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone"

Janis Joplin, Musician

"Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?"

Janis Joplin, Musician

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