Famous quotes by Musicians

"In order to win, you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing"

Van Morrison, Musician

"Improvisation is a compositional method"

Evan Parker, Musician

"The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal"

Nick Lowe, Musician

"I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers"

Loretta Lynn, Musician

"I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child"

Loretta Lynn, Musician

"I have busted more hippies' noses than all the narcs in the free world"

Ted Nugent, Musician

"When somebody like Elvis Costello comes along, anybody can make a good record with him"

Nick Lowe, Musician

"I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could"

James Taylor, Musician

"I think Elvis loved his fans - I think that's why they loved him and still love him. Fans are very conscious and sensitive to the fact that performers love them"

Minnie Pearl, Musician

"Elvis couldn't leave the hotel except under heavy guard. It was incredible how they went wild over him"

Minnie Pearl, Musician

"In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you"

Janet Jackson, Musician

"I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from"

James Taylor, Musician

"It was the Control album that was really about what I wanted to do"

Janet Jackson, Musician

"One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth"

Smokey Robinson, Musician

"We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things"

Minnie Pearl, Musician

"If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours"

James Taylor, Musician

"People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good"

Edith Piaf, Musician

"Lately I've been a workaholic. I'm in the studio all the time and I've helped to produce a couple of artists"

Duncan Sheik, Musician

"I'd have these weird experiences where I'd just be walking down the street with this chord progression in my head, this happened more than a few times, and I'd walk home and find a fax in my machine and it would match the music in my head"

Duncan Sheik, Musician

"I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else"

David Byrne, Musician

"I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've felt like that"

Duncan Sheik, Musician

"Television sounded really different than the Ramones, sounded really different than us, sounded really different than Blondie, sounded really different than the Sex Pistols"

David Byrne, Musician

"The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray"

David Byrne, Musician

"Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws"

Edith Piaf, Musician

"That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?"

David Byrne, Musician

"The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and no, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in"

Annie Lennox, Musician

"I feel fortunate about being able to make the music I want to make and getting away with it"

Duncan Sheik, Musician

"If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good"

Billie Joe Armstrong, Musician

"A punk concert isn't fun without a pit"

Billie Joe Armstrong, Musician

"I went along and basically learned a few of the songs they were doing at the time, which were quite a few of the songs we ended up doing on our first album"

John Deacon, Musician

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