Famous quotes by Musicians

"I'm the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet, and you suck"

Tre Cool, Musician

"God is playing my guitar, I am with God when I play"

Link Wray, Musician

Tre Cool, Musician

"I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid"

Mariah Carey, Musician

"Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference"

Herbie Hancock, Musician

"Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music"

Herbie Hancock, Musician

"I'd rather be onstage with a pig - a duet with Jennifer Lopez and me just ain't going to happen"

Mariah Carey, Musician

"Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I'm going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations"

Jay-Z, Musician

"When I was I younger, I didn't want to be gay. Not because I was scared of the sexual thing; I didn't want to be a clone. Now, this was in the late '70s"

Neil Tennant, Musician

"He comes to London and gets a job in a nightclub, a gay club, where he's known as Straight Dave by the bar staff - and no one believes he's as straight as he claims to be. He meets the daughter of the club manager, and he has an affair with her"

Neil Tennant, Musician

"I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter"

Jay-Z, Musician

"The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence"

Saul Williams, Musician

"It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz"

Herbie Hancock, Musician

"My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know"

Lawrence Welk, Musician

"They say a midget standing on a giant's shoulders can see much further than the giant. So I got the whole rap world on my shoulders, they trying to see further than I am"

Jay-Z, Musician

"My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme"

Saul Williams, Musician

"Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence"

Saul Williams, Musician

"For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. I solved the problem by sticking my finger in my mouth and popping it out"

Lawrence Welk, Musician

"Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper"

Bjork, Musician

"There's no map to human behaviour"

Bjork, Musician

"I'd done three solo albums in a row, and that's quite narcissistic"

Bjork, Musician

"So if you see Ten Years After, it's not me anymore. I'm very happy with what I am doing now"

Alvin Lee, Musician

"Mantovani was a great influence on me"

Brian May, Musician

"But people who do not know me are surprised to see me as a real person, I guess"

Christina Milian, Musician

"It's so wonderful... if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away"

Donald O'Connor, Musician

"For less than the cost of a Big Mac, fries and a Coke, you can buy a loaf of fresh bread and some good cheese or roast beef, which you will enjoy much more"

Steve Albini, Musician

"Cameron Diaz was so cute at the MTV Movie Awards when she pulled her skirt up and wiped her armpits"

Pink, Musician

"I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that"

Van Morrison, Musician

"My idea of fast food is a mallard"

Ted Nugent, Musician

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