Famous quotes by Musicians

"I'm busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesn't appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else"

Steve Albini, Musician

"If you put out 150 percent, then you can always expect 100 percent back. That's what I was always told as a kid, and it's worked for me so far!"

Justin Timberlake, Musician

"What ever truth drops on it, eventually grinds to a powder"

Art Blakey, Musician

"Super casual music listeners. That's most of the people in the world. And you have to understand, that's why Top 40 radio exists. It's not there for people who seek out music and who love music"

Michael Stipe, Musician

"And sometimes to help them we have got to help ourselves"

Stevie Ray Vaughan, Musician

"I wasn't originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it"

Kevin Richardson, Musician

"We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring"

Michael Stipe, Musician

"On planes I always cry. Something about altitude, the lack of oxygen and the bad movies. I cried over a St. Bernard movie once on a plane. That was really embarrassing"

Michael Stipe, Musician

"Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there's nothing to hang on: it comes from a part of yourself that simply knows, expresses itself, and is"

Jeff Buckley, Musician

"I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself"

James Taylor, Musician

"I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that"

David Byrne, Musician

"I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same"

David Byrne, Musician

"Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually"

Al Stewart, Musician

"My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I'm conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words"

Shakira, Musician

"It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this"

Steve Albini, Musician

"People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other"

Johnny Rotten, Musician

"I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash"

Johnny Rotten, Musician

"Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death"

Annie Lennox, Musician

"A kind of synthesis, but with some elements that perhaps you wouldn't have expected in advance. I always like that when that happens, when something comes that is more than the sum of the parts"

Evan Parker, Musician

"Music is spiritual. The music business is not"

Van Morrison, Musician

"I educated myself. To me, school was boring"

Van Morrison, Musician

"Going up the walls, doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days"

Donald O'Connor, Musician

"In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long particular elements could be, as parts of so-called free improvisations"

Evan Parker, Musician

"For the first few years we paid all the bills first and divided what was left as salary. Sometimes that was $50 a week"

Pink, Musician

"I feel very fortunate to be compared to somebody so incredible. Michael Jackson's an icon"

Justin Timberlake, Musician

"As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle"

Nick Lowe, Musician

"I was taught to think the next week or month or year will only get better than it is today. So I just keep waiting to see hoe great it will get!"

Stevie Ray Vaughan, Musician

"Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death"

Stevie Ray Vaughan, Musician

"But between sets I'd sneak over to the black places to hear blues musicians. It got to the point where I was making my living at white clubs and having my fun at the other places"

Stevie Ray Vaughan, Musician

"Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa"

Art Blakey, Musician

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