“Most things in my life I had before leaving home. Values, support, great family. I was shaped at an early age. A musician playing guitar, I wanted to be a folk singer.” HomeAgeWantedValuesSupportMusicianGuitarLeavingFolksSingersPlaying GuitarGreat FamilyLeaving Home Author:Sissy Spacek
“Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records.” StillsAgeYoungRecordsHeardMusicianSingersCompareBotherBobSongwritersYoung AgeDylan Author:Black Francis
“Both of my parents are actually music teachers. I think I got to a certain age where I decided I'd rather be a baseball player than a musician. Now, like most kids, I regret it.” ThinkingKidsAgeCertainParentTeacherPlayerRegretMusicianDecidedBaseballI RegretBaseball PlayerMusic Teacher Author:Charlie Day
“I wanted to be an artist, but at age 11, somehow all this musical knowledge and information and love for music that I had came out, and then suddenly it was very clear that I wanted to be a musician of some sort.” AgeWantedArtistClearInformationMusicianAnd LoveMusicalKnowledge And Information Author:Gunther Schuller
“Way back in the old days, say in Europe of the Middle Ages, you had an aristocracy, and they could afford to pay for musicians. The kings and queens had musicians in the castles, and that developed into symphony orchestras and what we call "Classical music" now.” WayAgePayMiddleKingsMusicianEuropeQueensOrchestraCastlesMiddle AgesSymphonyClassical MusicOld DaysAristocracyKings And QueensSymphony Orchestras Author:Pete Seeger
“The story of Rod Stewart, the story of Carlos Santana is so inspiring to young musicians because it shows in this trendy business how long a career can last. It shows how you can soar back, regardless of age.” LongStoriesShowsAgeLastsYoungCareersMusicianSoarTrendySantana Author:Clive Davis
“I started playing drums at a pretty early age because my parents were musicians. My dad was an amazing multi-instrumentalist and I can play a lot of instruments, but my dad actually played all the instruments I could play and then added another twenty five or thirty five different categories on there ...he was incredible! He got an act actually in Vegas, my parents Bobby and Phyllis Sherwood.” I CanDifferentPlayAgeParentFiveDadMusicianTwentiesInstrumentsIncrediblesMy DadThirtyCategoriesVegasTwenty FivePlaying DrumsInstrumentalists Author:Billy Sherwood
“Every time I see a musician - it doesn't matter what age - that inspires me, there's always a secret little wish that maybe we'll play together, because that's how I learn and grow and so forth, you know. But hopefully there's a lot more.” KnowsLittlesMatterPlayAgeTogetherWishGrowsSecretInspireMusicianHopefully Author:Chick Corea
“Being a musician, being a person who's playing tours and making records is a part-time thing for me at age. I did it, I lived it and I breathed it every day of my life for 30-odd years and now I am slowing down a little bit. But it does not mean that I am any less intense and dedicated to the work that I am doing now. I have other priorities in life as well.” YearsWellsMeanLittlesPersonsDoeAgeBitsRecordsLittle BitMusicianPrioritiesIntenseOddDedicatedSlow DownSlowingPart TimePriorities In Life Author:David Gilmour
“It's all about synthesis, you don't have to be a real musician. You just synthesize your own reality, synthesize your own talents. Welcome to the electronic age.” RealRealityAgeTalentMusicianWelcomeSynthesis Author:Klayton
“I didn't know if it would be a successful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter...I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along...I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't...The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.” IfsKnowsWorldWayWritingKindDifferentMomentsWould BeAgeFacesAudienceSuccessfulSawsStageParticularMusicianMusic IsConcernedLifetimeFinishedDifferent KindsSongwritersKeep The FaithDifferent Kinds Of Music Author:Bruce Springsteen
“From a very young age I had an ambition to be a musician, and to do that professionally. That's what I pursued until I was about 20, playing in bands that were taken pretty seriously at that stage.” AgeYoungTakenStageBandAmbitionMusicianYoung AgePursued Author:Cillian Murphy
“Then, at age 20, I discovered theater sort of by accident. Quite quickly, theater became more important to me than music. I began to realize that maybe my talents as a musician were quite limited, or had a ceiling to them, whereas acting seemed to sort of stretch before me. I got very passionate about it very quickly.” ImportantAgeRealizingActingTalentMusicianTheaterPassionateAccidentsCeilings Author:Cillian Murphy
“Jonny Lang has the power to move the music into the next millennium by reaching the ears of a new generation. The great musicians have the power to break all of the 'isms'-race, age, sex, et cetera. Jonny Lang is one of those musicians.” AgeMovingNextSexRaceBreakGenerationsMusicianEarsReachingGreat MusicNew GenerationMillenniumIsmsGreat Musician Author:Luther Allison
“I started playing guitar at the age of 8 or 9 years. Very early, and I was like already into pop music and was just trying to copy what I heard on the radio. And at a very early age I started experimenting with old tape recorders from my parents. I was 11 or 12 at that time and then when I was like 14 or 15 I had a punk band. I made all the classic rock musician's evolutions and then in the early nineties I bought my first sampler and that is how I got into electronic music, because I was able to produce it on my own. That was quite a relief.” TryingYearsFirstsMadeAgeAbleParentMy OwnHeardRocksProduceEvolutionBandMusicianMusic IsGuitarRadioPopsClassicReliefCopiesPunkTapePop MusicRock MusicElectronic MusicRecordersPlaying GuitarClassic RockRock Musicians Author:Christian Fennesz
“When I was 14-15 years old I was able to earn a little money from time to time but I'm not complaining since, very soon I could provide a normal living. I was discovered also by other musicians and they asked me to work with them. Even in my early age several well-known artists asked for my services both on the stage and in the studio. This experience proved to be very useful, musicians showed me various musical situations and various music experiments.” YearsWellsLittlesAgeAbleArtistSituationKnownStageNormalMusicianMusicalVariousStudiosComplainingExperimentsWell KnownLittle Money Author:Richard Clayderman
“I certainly know guys in comedy, I know some actors, and I definitely know some musicians, who have survived to a certain age and make a good living doing what they do, but nobody knows who they are. They wake up every day and they have the ability to get paid practicing their art, but underneath it all, if you scratched the surface, you still get, "If I only had my own show . . .," or "If I only had my own band . . ." It's what people always do when they want to be their own star.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantArtStillsShowsAgeGuyCertainActorsStarsMy OwnAbilityComedyBandMusicianWake UpPaidSurfaceSurvivedNobody KnowsGood Living Author:Denis Leary
“My guys studied music from a young age and I did not so I think, like, adding the idiot to the table of very talented musicians gave us a unique rub.” ThinkingAgeYoungGuyMusicianUniqueTablesIdiotYoung AgeTalented Musicians Author:Anthony Kiedis
“At a certain age I just stopped arguing. I realized that there was no way [my father] could see, because for him to approve of what I was doing, he would have to have some belief in me as a musician.” WayAgeCertainFatherBeliefMusicianArguingI Realized Author:George Michael
“I was not part of the golden age of the record industry, when musicians and producers were making real money. So I have no nostalgia about that time and I enjoy trying to build a new economy, a more humble one. And since I expect to sell only niche music, I feel quite solid, in this little economy. I know we will not become rich with this, but this is not the goal.” TryingRealAgeEnjoyGoalEconomyRichMusicianHumbleNostalgiaProducersNiche Author:Gaspar Claus
“I'm a better musician now, and I rarely practice because age has taught me the value of economy. And I think I'm a better writer now because I don't waste as much time, dilly-dallying and sassafrassin' and sloop and sloppin' and frying eggs. When you start writing, half the time you're just saying howdy to the page. My process now is a little more lean and muscular. I don't waste a lot of time. When I had kids, I learned how much time I had before, and how much time you actually need to do something. If you don't have time, you'll just do it and get it done.” ThinkingWritingDoneKidsAgeValuesEconomyMusicianJust Do ItJust Saying Author:James McBride
“There are certain records from the 80s and early 90s that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go to them as an example of great production. Over the last 20 years, myself and a lot of other musicians my age have tried to discover things in 50s, 60s, and 70s recording techniques that were lost or discarded. We've all been trying to crack this code. It's been an important period in the last 15 years, reclaiming some of those lost approaches to making records.” TryingImportantAgeSongLove IsMusicianCode Author:Beck
“I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.” ThinkingLongRealAgeTogetherMusicFansMusicianLong TimeOld AgeFollow MeReal Music Author:Bonnie Raitt
“I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.” PeopleRealWould BeAgeWantedGuyFallGoes OnMusicianFalling In LoveHanging OutPhasesDaddyReal Relationship Author:Olivia Wilde
“I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie - the networks just wouldn't spend the money today.” IfsTwoShowsHappensAgeTodayStarsBornWeekMajorsMusicianStartingGladGoldenVarietyMy TimeDancerGuestsBobCostumesGolden AgeStarting OutGuest Stars Author:Carol Burnett
“I think the music reflects the state that the society is in. It doesn't suggest the state. I think the poets and musicians and artists are of the age - not only do they lead the age on, but they also reflect that age. [...] Like The Beatles. We came out of Liverpool and we reflected our background and we reflected our thoughts in what we sang, and that's all people are doing.” PeopleThinkingStatesAgeArtistPoetMusicianBackgroundsOur ThoughtsLiverpool Author:John Lennon