Famous quotes by Musicians

"I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium"

Brian Eno, Musician

"Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make"

David Lee Roth, Musician

"It doesn't get better, it doesn't get worse, but it sure gets different!"

David Lee Roth, Musician

"Love always ends differently and it always begins differently - especially with me"

Taylor Swift, Musician

"In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature"

Taylor Swift, Musician

"I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend"

Taylor Swift, Musician

"Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes"

Taylor Swift, Musician

"All you need to do to be my friend is like me"

Taylor Swift, Musician

"Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say"

Mahalia Jackson, Musician

"Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope"

Mahalia Jackson, Musician

"Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me"

Mahalia Jackson, Musician

"After all, in today's music scene, every band seems to steal from other bands"

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

"Cuz I was never pretty anyway, and never cared anything about that"

Waylon Jennings, Musician

"I sing about life"

Marvin Gaye, Musician

"If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets"

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

"I have the distinction of being called a media whore by Courtney Love"

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

"These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable"

Kinky Friedman, Musician

"I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral"

Laurie Anderson, Musician

"I hate zoos"

Laurie Anderson, Musician

"Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Ritchie Valens does"

Waylon Jennings, Musician

"But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around"

Waylon Jennings, Musician

"Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes"

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

"The only currency I value is the coin of the spirit. That's very important in my life"

Kinky Friedman, Musician

"For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live"

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

"I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic Surgery Disasters"

Jello Biafra, Musician

"You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing"

Kinky Friedman, Musician

"If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus"

Kinky Friedman, Musician

"I'll keep us out of war with Oklahoma!"

Kinky Friedman, Musician

"Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail"

Kinky Friedman, Musician

"My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said"

Laurie Anderson, Musician

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