Famous quotes by Musicians

"To retire is to die"

Pablo Casals, Musician

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

Pablo Casals, Musician

"I realize that nothing's as it seems"

Sting, Musician

"I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria"

Sting, Musician

"So, then you find yourself in a situation where you have to do things because they're on offer to you, because you don't have much self-respect left. You just can't say no, even to something that you've never done before. You just can't help yourself"

Brian Molko, 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

"Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping malls coming out of the walls, as we walk out among the manure. That's why I pay no mind"

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

"To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing"

Keith Richards, Musician

"It's good to be anywhere"

Keith Richards, Musician

"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

"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

"Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling"

Holly Near, Musician

"My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

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

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover"

Bruce Dickinson, Musician

"You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention, and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians"

David Lee Roth, Musician

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

Kanye West, Musician

"It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs"

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

"Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat"

Lou Reed, 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 don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed"

Michael Hutchence, Musician

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

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative"

Bruce Dickinson, Musician

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