Musician Quotations

I got lost but look what I found.

Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream.

Normal kids in their teens want to go and date girls and do mischievous things, your hormones are jumping around, but I stayed in my bedroom in search of something.

I was overlooked long before anyone knew who I was.

That's what it's about, how society changes people but people can also change society. It only takes a few people to do things and help themselves instead of sitting around on their asses. She has a very global outlook on life and all sorts of things.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible... and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.

We have such a high drop-out rate from musicians, said the head of the college. He was right - I dropped out before I even dropped in. Months later they were still asking what had happened to me, not realising that I was on a UK tour.

The skit was very successful based on the applause. After that show, the three of us decided to get together and try and come up with some songs that we could all participate in.

We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites.

A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.

I wouldn't say I'm lucky, but I do take care of my body. I never drink or smoke, and I get the most out of my body.

I'm aware of what kids like because I'm constantly in touch with them. Also, they say that a lot of people who write for children can remember their own childhoods vividly and I can remember my childhood very vividly.

But let's face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I've done down the stretch.

This is the bunch of songs I did first, and it's just the type of thing I do. I am a Carter Family girl, so the record is book-ended with Carter Family songs.

I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I certainly have respect for those who make music their livelihood.

An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.

It would be nice to have radio support, not that we've ever had that much trouble with it.

I am a general. My soldiers are the keys and I have to command them.

They sit there in committees day after day, And they each put in a color and it comes out gray. And we all have heard the saying, which is true as well as witty, That a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee.

Man, I love coming home. St. Louis is actually hard to capture.

For the most part, that message hasn't changed a lot over the years - love is still love, and heartbreak is still heartbreak.

I'm saying: to be continued, until we meet again. Meanwhile, keep on listening and tapping your feet.

It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.

We put out press releases to tell people what had happened to me and that I had a large weight gain but a lot of people still didn't know. The ones that didn't know were floored. That was a real humbling experience for me.

I knew that we were clicking when mimics started kidding my voice, I'll know that I'm on the way out when they stop doing their imitations.

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

This land is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York Island. From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me.

When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice.

You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.

An employee's motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager.

You know, I do not think it is necessarily looks, I do not think I am the prettiest girl... Everyone has something that is their asset, some have the hair, some have the cheekbones, others have the lips. But once you know what is your asset, then you should capitalize on it.

I used to not stutter any. Oh, I did when I was a kid, I stuttered, I had a bad stutter until I was probably between the second and third grade and a guy got rid of it for me.

We wanted to guide the musicians, so we could create our own sound. We would never let the band just go in and play the chord sheets. We were very focused on what we had in mind for these productions.

There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.

There is no substitute for jamming and getting to know each other on the road.

He's a couple sandwiches short of a picnic.

Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.

I've always been kind of a loner. Continue to be.

But life is tough and if you're creative, it's tougher.

I had heard Ornette a couple of times, but I didn't really know where he was coming from until we started the record and it was beautiful, Fred. It opened up my mind.

I really enjoyed the sort of real crazy, eclectic layering stuff and how it all worked together. I could tell it was some of it was derivative of something. I could tell that certain things were being looped around and I just really enjoyed the way that it all came together.

You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.

To me, this degree was an acknowledgment of my work in music.

With or without a Social Security fix, Americans don't have enough assets to retire on. There has to be a much larger debate.

But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.

Yeah, they let me do whatever I wanted to.

The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.

Don't tell me to watch the beat. You watch me.

The magic can happen in a studio. Special things can happen in a recording studio, even though it may seem like a clinical environment from the outside looking in.

Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she'll ever do the same; And the thing that I call living is just being satisfied With knowing I've got no one left to blame.

Like Jermaine was saying, it's a beautiful day, and we're just glad all of this is behind us. We can go on with our lives. And Michael can go on with his life and do what he does best, and that's making good music, making his fans happy, people happy all over the world.

There is no magic. There is no secret. You need your sleep. A lot of our society tries to get by, but the truth is it is up to each individual to get their optimal sleep amount. If you get less than that you can get by temporarily, but it's only temporary.

As a musician, you just want to be able to do what you love.

I would quite like to do a different accent or play something so different from myself because Olivia, the character I play in this film, is similar to me.

The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.

I've always thought of myself as being extremely lucky. The idea is to keep that luck going. Headlining the Stanley was a real kick. I think it's the type of thing I could get used to.

For my own part I continue of the same Disposition.

At the same time, I definitely want to expand my fan base but not at the expense of prostituting my music or heart.

We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration.

Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If you're a sportsman or you're a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what you're doing at any given time.

The important thing for any young singer or musician is to keep focused on becoming a better musician as opposed to becoming a bigger celebrity.

Unfortunately I'm not a smoker, so cigars have never been a part of my agenda.

We were delighted to have Nigel as a producer. The only problem is that Nigel is so famous that he seems to dominate most interviews without being there.

I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.

I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it would be nice to have a bigger library.

When you meet someone for the first time, that's not the whole book. That's just the first page.

Don't let your mouth write a check that your tail can't cash.

We've accumulated a lot of things over the years and many things from our grandmother. Hopefully it'll be all right. I really don't want to cry, but I can't help it.

The song came out to be a gem, just came out to be a really, really interesting rendition of it.

If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.

Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.

Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money.

Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

I identify more as a musician than as a singer, because I play piano and percussion, and I engineer and produce everything that I do.

It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.

The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over half my lifetime, and a world of hope that stretches farther than any flight of sparrows.

I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

Shouldn't a great museum foster serious seeing before all else?

When I go to a film, you're taking it easy and you let things wash over you. That's what cinema's all about. You get involved in a world that's being created in front of you.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

We'd played for years to half-empty clubs in England.

I didn't choose a word or anything. I just wrote the song until it stopped.

We all love musical architecture; there's no doubt about that.

I would love to do top of pops as a grandma.

I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano.

Oh yeah, I know Johnnie Bassett. We were part of that whole thing.

Even a lot of kids who are gifted can be kids who feel like wimps or nerds.

I like the fact that we have all the teams in the tournament. When I first got here as an assistant, not everyone made the tournament and I think as a coach, you look at it from a job security standpoint, I think that hurt when you didn't have everybody in the tournament.

It's great to be able to get up there now and do an hour or 75 minutes of songs they're familiar with.

We were over in Europe all the time their posters were up. That's why I liked them. So now all of a sudden they're going to get a band hat on, and say people aren't acting the right way?

Buddy Rich was one of the most incredible technicians in the world, on this planet, but the only people he could really impress, who knew what he was doing was another musician or another drummer.

Like I'm in San Diego today and this is my hometown so I've got a lot of my friends coming and I definitely want to put on the best show that I can.

Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.

Even if Scrabble had been invented then, I wouldn't have wanted to play Scrabble, because the highest triple word score in the world would not have expressed how much I liked the game Natalie and I played every afternoon.

I'd like to congratulate myself, and thank myself, and give myself a big pat on the back.