“But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantCountryPlayAbleCareersRocksFrontsMusicianPerformancesJazzLastingSongwritingPunkSongwritersGroundwork Author:Amy Ray
“Rock guitarists usually do not wish to think trains of thought about anything but their own guitar playing during a long solo, and I could not play this way if I were not able to divide my attention between my ever changing musical environment and my instrument itself.” IfsThinkingWayLongPlayAbleWishAttentionEnvironmentRocksInstrumentsTrainGuitarMusicalDividesSoloGuitaristGuitar PlayingTrain Of Thought Author:John Frusciante
“Maybe in the back of my mind I was kind of wishing that I would become a rock star, kind of wishing that I would reach enough people who would be willing to pay me for the music, that I would actually be able to live off of just writing the songs that I wanted to write. But I don't think I really admitted to myself that that was my goal.” PeopleThinkingWritingMindKindEnoughWould BeAbleWantedSongWishStarsGoalPayRocksWillingRock StarOf My Mind Author:Jonathan Coulton
“The school of relationships is where you learn self-knowledge. I just don't know how you could learn it sitting alone in the desert on a rock by yourself. You have to see where you fail at it. And that confrontation with your own ability - "I was again not able to love" - those are the teachable moments.” KnowsSelfMomentsAbleSchoolAbilityKnow HowFailingRocksSittingDesertSelf KnowledgeConfrontationTeachableSitting AloneTeachable Moments Author:Richard Rohr