“Being a rock musician is already like ego-tripping hardcore. You're self-consumed, and you're always thinking. It's really easy to say, "I'm going to write a song about this situation, and when I'm done, everyone will care." To everybody else, that's ego-tripping.” ThinkingWritingSelfDoneCareSongEasySituationRocksEgoMusicianConsumedRock MusicHardcoreAlways ThinkingTrippingRock Musicians Author:Ryan Adams
“I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style.” PeopleKnowsCertainEasyBreakStyleTheoryMusicianSongwritingAmusedWriting StyleMusic Theory Author:Black Francis
“The musician lifestyle is not easy for most people to understand. This is something I'm struggling with. When you're on tour, people think you're just having the time of your life and it's really romantic.” PeopleThinkingEasyStruggleMusicianLifestyleTime Of Your LifeReally Romantic Author:Sharon Van Etten
“It's easy for people to mistake most musicians as living the easy life. It takes a while to get to that point. I'm sure it's like that for acting and television.” PeopleEasyActingMistakeTelevisionMusicianEasy Life Author:Chaz Bundick
“As a musician, we should always want to strive to be better, we can always make improvements. It's easy to get comfortable and it's easy to find your voice and your sound, but I always wanted to be better.” WantShouldWantedEasySoundVoiceComfortableMusicianStriveImprovementEasy To Get Author:Eric Hernandez
“It's easy to get on to something like alcohol or drugs so my advice to musicians is don't lose your perspective because you will waste time in terms of years.” YearsEasyTermLosesAdvicePerspectiveDrugWasteMusicianAlcoholWasting TimeEasy To Get Author:Joe Walsh
“Photography is not easy. You know it takes a painter or a sculpture or a musician years to perfect their technique. Then they're free to make an expression in a matter of moments. It takes moments for a photographer to perfect his technique. And then it takes years for him to make it into something that is truly creative and worthwhile.” KnowsYearsMatterMomentsEasyPerfectCreativeExpressionPhotographyMusicianPhotographerTechniquePainterWorthwhileSculpture Author:Paul Caponigro
“It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.” PlayEasyMusicKeysMusicianInstrumentsJazzMusicalComposerRight TimeClassical MusicJazz MusicPlaying MusicJazz MusicianMusical InstrumentsFunny MusicIgnorance Is BlissFamous MusicianComposing MusicMusic PracticeMusic TheoryGuitar MusicClassical MusiciansInstrumental MusicPlaying Instruments Author:Johann Sebastian Bach
“I think one of the reasons I'm successful as a musician is that the first like 30 shows I played, I played with no monitors standing in front of guitar amps in a shitty, smoky warehouse where people were screaming and wasted, knocking over my gear. So shows after that seem pretty easy!” PeopleThinkingFirstsReasonShowsSeemsEasySuccessfulFrontsMusicianStandingGuitarGearsKnockingWarehouse Author:Grimes
“I'd done all my research and seen that Booker and Gadson had worked with giant folks and little peanuts, too. That just showed me that they're musicians. They're not just interested in doing the big ones, they're interested in doing stuff that - pardon the expression - gives them a boner. I'm like that, too. I don't want to just do easy stuff. I want to keep myself freaked out all the time. Hence the title of the record, I Like To Keep Myself in Pain.” WantGivingLittlesDoneBigsPainEasyStuffRecordsExpressionMusicianResearchFolksTitlesGiantsPardonPeanutsBoners Author:Kelly Hogan
“As a musician, my job is incredibly easy, and it's a good one, but I've got to work at it occasionally.” JobsEasyMusician Author:A.C. Newman
“Art is my 'solo career' if you like. Musically, as a bass player, I depend on other musicians to play, whereas, with painting, I'm on my own. I find it quite easy to switch heads and I enjoy both the mayhem of being on tour and the serenity of being alone in my art studio.” IfsArtPlayEasyEnjoyMy OwnCareersPlayerPaintingDependsMusicianArt IsStudiosSerenitySoloBassMayhemBass Players Author:Horace Panter
“I saw a nice interview with Dave Binney recently. He was saying, "Man it was never easy. It's not like 'Oh wow, the good old days.' What, when certain people couldn't vote?" There was more work for musicians in the '40s, '50s, '60s. But I don't think it was ever easy.” PeopleThinkingMenCertainEasySawsNiceMusicianVoteInterviewsWowOld DaysDaveGood Old Days Author:Jon Gordon
“England never felt claustrophobic for me at all. I think it would feel more difficult for me if I lived in mainland Europe. America I think is really easy because Los Angeles has film stars everywhere and musicians and Santa Barbara a lot of people have homes there even if they don't live there. You are kind of inconsequential, no one cares.” PeopleThinkingKindHomeCareFilmEasyDifficultMusicianLos AngelesInconsequentialNo One Cares Author:Martin Gore
“I think that female musicians are constantly fighting an uphill battle in general. Even when I'm not writing heartbreak songs... the fact that songwriting is so difficult and music criticism has become so content driven means that sometimes critics can go for the easy descriptors rather than an in-depth analysis.” ThinkingWritingMeanSometimesSongFightingEasyDifficultBattleMusicianFemaleCriticismCriticsDrivenSongwriting Author:Marissa Nadler
“My career could've been anything, I just wasn't that good at other things. I'd say it was fairly easy starting out as I did in LA, meeting some great friends and musicians and landing a record deal. That's where the hard work began though.” EasyHard WorkMusicianMeetingsGreat Friend Author:Teddy Thompson
“I love acting. I can't imagine anything else that I would do. I know a lot of actors that really want to be directors and be musicians and all that stuff. I like acting and I feel like I'm good at it. It kinda makes me happy. It's actually pretty easy to me and I can't imagine doing anything else at this point because I've been doing it for so long.” LongEasyActingImagineMusicianMake Me Happy Author:Edward Furlong
“I think I'm better at producing than I am at being a songwriter, but it doesn't change the fact that I still have a desire to play and write songs. I've never wanted to be a career musician. But I still love to play and write. It's a big part of who I am. Songwriting is not particularly easy for me. I think it would be easy for me if I didn't have such high restrictions and feelings about what I want my music to be. I'm not precious at all when it comes to producing music and I can bring that to an artist and let them expand their horizons.” ThinkingWritingFeelingsDesireArtistSongEasyMusicianSongwriting Author:John Congleton
“Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.” InspirationalArtDifferentHardEasySimpleMusicCreativityCreativePlansMusicianPlanningComposerJust BeingBe CreativeCarpe DiemCreative PeopleBeing DifferentPianistCreative PersonCreativenessInspire CreativityInspiration And Creativity Author:Charles Mingus
“Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.” HouseEasyMusicianInstrumentsMusicalMusical Instruments Author:Bjork
“There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they've ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the merely collaborative or technically proficient, when their expression becomes as easy and graceful as friendship or love. This is when they give us a glimpse of what we might be, of our best selves, and of an impossible world in which you give everything to others, but lose nothing of yourself.” WorldGivingSelfMomentsMightTogetherFoundEasyLosesImpossibleExpressionMusicianPerformancesGlimpseRehearsalBest SelfRare Moments Author:Ian Mcewan
“It's so easy to laugh, It's so easy to hate, It takes guts to be gentle and kind.” KindHateEasyEmotionKindnessLaughingStrengthMusicianLaughterHatredGentleGutsGentlenessHateful Author:Steven Morrissey