“Sometimes I wonder if I shouldn't leaving being musician because I use to like it when noone came to see me playing, because I didn't feel any pressure. I can enjoy myself and probably play better. Sometimes when I play, people expect something of me, and I'm not always able to to that. Quite often. So I get totaly nervous” PeopleIfsFeelsI CanSometimesPlayUseAbleEnjoyWonderMusicianPressureLeavingNervousSometimes I Wonder Author:Allan Holdsworth
“I can't say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career. Not only are they just great, nice guys; they're some of the best musicians you're likely to find. They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It's amazing.” FeelsI CanEnoughGuyFoundCareersNiceBandMusicianGood ThingsRapGenreFortunateNice GuyGangstaPolkaGangsta Rap Author:Al Yankovic
“People see musicians on a huge stage playing a festival for 80,000 people and are like, "Oh, they have such magnetism," but it always embarrasses me more than it makes me feel proud.” PeopleFeelsStageHugeProudMusicianFestivalsMagnetism Author:Geoff Rickly
“I'm a musician, and I'm fascinated with the effects of sound, and tone, and pitch and melody and all that sort of stuff. It's the first thing I have to solidify whenever...I get into a character. The first thing I need to get sorted out before I can then move forward, before I can feel any confidence whatsoever, is the voice.” NeedsFeelsFirstsI CanCharacterMovingStuffSoundVoiceEffectsMusicianMoving ForwardToneMelodyFascinated Author:Guy Pearce
“We all feel love, and that might sound kind of corny, but I really feel that's what joins musicians together around the world.” WorldFeelsKindMightTogetherSoundMusicianAround The WorldCorny Author:Enrique Iglesias
“People feel they have to live that stereotypical lifestyle in order to be a rock star. You don't have to shoot heroin and act a certain way to be a rock and roll musician.” PeopleWayFeelsCertainOrderStarsRocksMusicianLifestyleRock And RollRock StarHeroin Author:Lenny Kravitz
“For a while I wanted to be a professional baseball pitcher, and then I wanted to be a musician and then sometimes I think I'd like to start a store for gift-wrapping Christmas presents... But I feel I could do most things I set my mind to, except mechanical things, I'm not very good at that.” ThinkingFeelsMindSometimesWantedMusicianBaseballVery GoodStoresPitcherWrappingChristmas PresentBaseball Pitcher Author:John Malkovich
“I always say that you should just listen to it and see what you think it sounds like it is. I don't think it should be labeled. Most musicians feel like that. No one wants to put their music in a category. But, I don't think it's all over the place. I don't go from metal to jazz, or anything crazy.” ThinkingWantFeelsShouldSoundCrazyMusicianJazzCategoriesMetalsJust Listen Author:Tinsel Korey
“I was worried that I didn't have as many Facebook 'likes' as another musician. You can almost feel like a failure if you aren't building your fame in that way.” IfsWayFeelsBuildingFameMusicianLikesWorried Author:Erika M. Anderson
“When I'm alcohol-free now and even to see the world around me, I appreciate it, but I never truly enjoy too much of it maybe because I feel like I'm a working musician. There are some joyous moments, but I will not think a joyous moment.” ThinkingWorldFeelsMomentsEnjoyToo MuchMusicianAppreciateAlcoholJoyous Author:Stan Getz
“When I'm working behind a camera, I feel like I'm trying to achieve something like a jazz musician does.” FeelsTryingDoeBehindsAchieveMusicianCamerasJazzJazz MusicJazz Musician Author:Jack Welpott
“Once you lose that musician part -not just the playing, I'm talking about musician attitude- then you're lost, man. Especially if you started out that way. It feels so good to be back, starting from the ground up.” IfsMenWayFeelsLostLosesAttitudeTalkingMusicianStarting Author:Bootsy Collins
“We always have a basic structure for a piece of music, but we encourage the musicians to elaborate on whatever they feel at that particular moment. There's a definite conversation happening on stage. I think it is very important for us as creative musicians, to instantaneously describe any energy that is visible at that time.” ThinkingFeelsImportantMomentsEnergyCreativePiecesStageParticularConversationMusicianHappeningsStructureVisibleDefinite Author:Lisa Gerrard
“I like the communication and trust that comes from a long-term relationship. When you really know people as musicians and as people, you feel you can really count on them. That frees you to take more chances and ... it takes the music to a higher level. It translates into a better product for audiences. There are two levels to these relationships. The first level is being with guys for the first few years, you're getting used to guys - he's got this to offer, he's got that to offer, I don't like this, I do like this. You both praise them and are critical as you get to know one another.” PeopleKnowsFeelsYearsFirstsLongTwoUsedGuyTermChanceLevelsAudienceProductsCommunicationHigherOffersMusicianPraiseCriticalLong TermTranslateHigher LevelLong Term Relationship Author:Dave Liebman
“Well you can see that I'm still in motion. It happens that you share the music with the audience. That is the best happiness an artist can have. I'm not alone on stage but with a group of musicians. So the more the music is successful, the more the audience feel happy about the music. It's the responsiblity of an artist to make his fans happy. That is proposition. I'm always talking about proposition.” FeelsWellsStillsHappensArtistTalkingAudienceSuccessfulGroupsShareFansStageMusicianMusic IsPropositionsNot Alone Author:Manu Dibango
“Maybe not as an idol, but I have influenced some people, including my son Joshua. So that feels good. Wherever I play musicians come to meet me, that is a great compliment to me. I am honored.” PeopleFeelsPlaySonMusicianIncludingFeel GoodMy SonComplimentIdolsHonored Author:Dewey Redman
“I am not an evangelist. I am not a preacher. I am a musician. That is what I know how to do. I know how to write songs. I know how to write things that relate to my heart. I feel that I talk about God in every song, in everything I do - all of it! I really do not know how to respond. I do not relate to that.” KnowsFeelsWritingHeartSongKnow HowMy HeartMusicianRelatePreacherEvangelists Author:Mat Kearney
“I feel like when you're an artist and you first come out - people don't want you to be as creative as you could possibly be as a musician. More so they really want you to stick to something.” PeopleWantFeelsFirstsArtistCreativeMusicianSticks Author:Kid Ink
“Jazz is the greatest American art form and our greatest export. We don't pay attention to the youth of jazz, don't stoke the fires creatively for the youth coming up. I feel like jazz musicians became too much of purists - with Donald Byrd doing funk jazz in the '70s.” FeelsArtFormPayAttentionFireToo MuchYouthMusicianJazzPay AttentionJazz MusicJazz MusicianFunkStoke Author:Talib Kweli
“It feels like we've grown enough as musicians over the last few years to go new places, and our conceptual and compositional abilities have developed along with it, so we're pushing all the envelopes we can at the same time and it still feels like cutting edge work to us. It seems to resonate with people.” PeopleFeelsYearsStillsEnoughSeemsLastsAbilityCuttingMusicianEdgesPushingEnvelopesNew PlacesCutting Edge Author:Bent Saether
“It's definitely about the rhythm of the words and how they sound together, writing one sentence and then another and another and cutting something immediately if it doesn't feel true. I come from a family of musicians and - while I have no musical abilities of my own - I think I inherited a good ear.” IfsThinkingFeelsWritingTogetherSoundMy OwnAbilityCuttingMusicianEarsMusicalSentencesRhythmOne SentenceMusical Ability Author:Mary J. Miller
“It's a scary question for a musician or songwriter today - what does the future hold? It is a strange time in the music business too; it feels like we are all in some kind of transitional period, stuck between old technology and new.” FeelsKindDoeTodayTechnologyStrangePeriodsMusicianScaryStuckSongwritersMusic BusinessOld TechnologyStrange Times Author:Dean Wareham
“I guess I feel like; if you're doing something and people are accusing you of appropriating something like that so obviously, then I would feel like I've failed as a creative person. It's just like stealing something and doing some sort of slight alteration to it - I'd feel like I'm not doing my job as a musician, or as a creative person - if it's just obvious like that.” PeopleIfsFeelsPersonsJobsCreativeMusicianObviousStealingCreative PersonAlterationsAccusing Author:Panda Bear
“In actuality it's drum samples in the computer. I don't know, I've just never really dug into that whole technology thing, I feel like it hurts me as a musician a little.” KnowsFeelsLittlesWholeHurtTechnologyComputerMusicianIt HurtsHurt MeSampleActuality Author:The Rocket Summer
“Most of the musicians that I'm playing with now have jazz backgrounds, so they're comfortable with improvisation. And they all know to make eye contact with me, and I'll give them some kind of sign when I think that the song's ending. Or maybe I don't even have to, because they all sort of feel it at the same time.” ThinkingKnowsGivingFeelsKindEyeSongComfortableMusicianJazzBackgroundsContactImprovisationEye Contact Author:Larkin Grimm
“Any musician with a slight level of self-awareness can be taught to write a 'good' song. A great song is completely original. It feels as if the performer is the only person who could bring it to life.” IfsFeelsWritingPersonsSelfSongLevelsAwarenessTaughtMusicianOriginalsSelf AwarenessPerformers Author:Greta Salpeter
“I feel so lucky to have found two other, now three other musicians, that I can absolutely communicate with musically and believe in what they're doing almost 100% of the time. I've talked to a few [other] people in bands and that just isn't always the case.” PeopleFeelsBelieveI CanTwoThreeFoundCasesLuckyBandMusicianCommunicateSo Lucky Author:Theresa Wayman
“Being a part of the crowd with incredible musicians onstage summoning the muse and delivering that to us - doesn't matter if it's an orchestra, two bluegrass banjo pickers, a solo singer, piano player, or Bruce Springsteen - when it all comes together, you can just feel as if you are a part of something bigger and grander than yourself.” IfsFeelsTwoMatterTogetherPlayerMusicianBiggerIncrediblesCrowdsSingersPianoMuseSoloOrchestraDeliveringBanjosSpringsteenBluegrassSummoning Author:Patrick Fabian
“I feel like I'm struggling now, and nearly every musician I know feels that way - even the most successful ones. I realize that I'm very lucky, but I still feel like I could be doing so much better.” KnowsWayFeelsStillsRealizingStruggleSuccessfulLuckyMusician Author:Eleanor Friedberger
“It's important me as a musician and also as an occasional show goer to feel the presence of a band on stage, to hear a PA reverberating and slapping off the walls, the push and pull of an audience, the blood, sweat, and heat. It's a primal thing in a way.” WayFeelsImportantShowsAudienceBloodStageWallBandMusicianHeatSweatOccasionalPrimalOff The WallSlapping Author:Jacob Bannon
“Even as a fan, as someone who's into his performances, the Stooges and his own stuff, Iggy [Pop] is one of the people who kept underlining something that a lot of my older musician friends with punk roots say: you get into this space in your life where you feel like a weirdo, you're marginalised, you don't fit in... and then you can get up on stage in front of people who probably hate you.” PeopleFeelsHateStuffSpaceFansStageFrontsFitMusicianRootsPerformancesPopsGet UpPunkHate YouWeirdoStooges Author:Babatunde Adebimpe
“I think people want to put you in a box and close it away so that it makes them feel better. A lot of musicians get that.” PeopleThinkingWantFeelsMusicianBoxesFeel Better Author:Daniel Powter
“I know this might sound a little cliche but, I feel like everybody is searching for the same thing, and that is truth. I think that's sort of the journey to define that which is most inspirational. Even in acting, when I watch an actor who I find to be so truthful in their craft, or a musician who gets up there and sings so truthfully - I like that.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsLittlesMightActorsSoundActingWatchesJourneyMusicianGet UpCraftsTruthfulCliche Author:Tyler Blackburn
“We're [with Robbie Robertson ] jazz musicians. The context may be rock 'n' roll but it's still jazz. It's jazz and that means improvization...you play a tune the way it feels and you play it differently every time. It can never be the same.” WayFeelsMayMeanStillsPlayRocksMusicianJazzTunesRock N RollJazz MusicJazz Musician Author:Van Morrison
“I feel like if you compare yourself to other successful musicians you will never be successful, because there will always be someone above you who has done something more or done something first or done something better.” IfsFeelsFirstsDoneSuccessfulMusicianCompareBeing SuccessfulSomething Better Author:Thomston
“Jazz musicians can be great teachers of business. Their creativity is not dependent on their mood, it does not have to be coaxed out of them, it has nothing to do with the phases of the moon or even how they feel that day. They go on stage and start playing. Being creative is their job.” FeelsDoeJobsCreativityCreativeTeacherStageGoes OnMoonMusicianJazzMoodDependentPhasesBe CreativeJazz MusicGreat TeacherJazz MusicianPhases Of The Moon Author:John Kao
“To actually get together and make a band record feels like a bit of a big deal, and that can be quite daunting when you're musicians.” FeelsBigsTogetherBitsDealsRecordsBandMusicianBig DealGet Together Author:Tracey Thorn
“Indeed we have souls. And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe. That listens to water with a river flowing, or water falling in rain and is lifted up by that and listens to a wonderful singer, wonderful musicians, listens to maybe Duke Ellington or Frank Sinatra or listens to Odetta and Mary J. Blige. Yes, and thinks whoo! And thinks, yes, hmm, all right now. My soul has been washed. I feel better, I feel stronger.” IfsThinkingFeelsLooksPersonsHas BeensSoulHelpingFallStarsBitsWaterReligiousWonderfulConditionsRight NowMusicianRainRiversStrongerSingersMy SoulAweFrankMaryFeel BetterDukesAmazementHmmMary J Blige Author:Maya Angelou
“[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.” KnowsFeelsComfortableMusicianJazzJazz MusicJazz Musician Author:Miles Davis
“I feel very strongly that if you got rid of all of the autistic genetics you're not going to have any scientists. There'd be no computer people. You'd lose a lot of artists and musicians. There'd be a horrible price to pay.” PeopleIfsFeelsArtistLosesPayComputerMusicianScientistHorribleVery StrongGeneticsAutistic Author:Temple Grandin
“I don't think my skill level is up there as a musician. I think I'm best at writing in general. The musicians that I know are really good, and I feel like I have a lot to do until I become a musician.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsWritingLevelsSkillsMusician Author:Ian Simpson
“An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.” FeelsPersonsUseCultureMusicianIntelligentGuiltyIdeologyIntelligent PersonDownloading Music Author:Jaron Lanier
“I don't feel like that many musicians are competitive with each other.” FeelsMusician Author:John Legend
“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” FeelsWisdomFunnyPainSongMusicEmotionalMusicianGood ThingsLovelyHittingOne LoveMusic LoveGreat MusicReggaeInspirational MusicPower Of MusicNo PainWriting MusicArt And MusicMusic SoulArt MusicFunny MusicMusic LifeWorld MusicGreat MusicianMusic And LifeFamous MusicianMusic Is LifeLove PainMusic LoverReggae MusicLive MusicLove And PainLove FreedomMusic Is My LifeOld MusicSweet MusicRastaMental SlaveryMusic And LoveMusic SpeaksHearing MusicPowerful MusicJamaican MusicMusic And HealingMusic ArtistBackground MusicMusic HealingGreatness Of ManMusic MakingHarmony In MusicFavorite MusicMusic TherapyLife Without MusicMusician LoveFeeling PainNo More Pain Author:Bob Marley
“I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.” PeopleFeelsBookFunnyMusicMorningDrinkMusicianHumorousWake UpWineDrinkingSorryAlcoholDrunkBeerIronicDrankWhiskeyLiquorDrunkennessCocktailsDrinking AlcoholDrinkersBoozeFunny DrinkingBeer DrinkingDrinking BeerGreat DrinkingFunny AlcoholAlcohol DrinkingDrinking FunnyDrinking WineBrewingFunny BeerBrewing BeerGood WineAlcohol And LifeDrinking WhiskeyFunny Beer DrinkingGetting DrunkWaking Up In The MorningGreat BeerWhiskey DrinkingBeer DrinkersCraft BeerBars DrinkingLiquor FunnyWaking Up Every MorningCocktail DrinksBrewersDon't Drink AlcoholIrish BeerDay DrinkingAlcoholic DrinksGood BeerDrinking CheersDrunk ManFunny BarGood DrinkingDrunk PeopleDon't Drink And Drive Author:Jack Lemmon
“I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned to the athlete I once was. I'm integrating all the parts of me - jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher - and becoming stronger as a result.” FeelsResultsClearPoetBecomingMusicianStrongerMental HealthAthletePhilosopherMissionsIntegratingJocksLethargyBecoming Stronger Author:Alanis Morissette
“Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.” FeelsGodBeautifulMorningPositiveBlessingMusicianYeahAfrican AmericanEvery MorningNew BeginningsSinger SongwritersBeautiful MorningMorning InspirationalBeautiful DayGood Morning InspirationalStarting A New BeginningGreetings In The MorningGood Morning BeautifulGod BlessingGood Day Inspirational Author:Prince
“But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; music's got these bars and measures you know.” KnowsWantNeedsFeelsAbleBehindsMusicianBars Author:Sun Ra
“I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.” KnowsInspirationalFeelsWarHomeGrewDadBandGrew UpMusicianDanceMy DadLike MePostsVenuesPost War Author:Pete Townshend
“Meeting actors and TV personalities is one thing, but I just feel like meeting musicians is the coolest.” FeelsActorsOne ThingTvsPersonalityMusicianMeetings Author:Shaun White