“This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists... by spending time alone practicing what they love.” PeopleArtistRecordsComputerMusicianScientistAthleteSpendingProgrammersMe AloneSpending TimeAlone TimeComputer ProgrammersSpending Time Alone Author:Meg Cabot
“You gotta remember: we're musicians we're just crazy people who can't get along sometimes. I've definitely come to the table with my knife in my pocket a couple of times; you know how it is. It's part of being human. Now add fame and money and all that rock and roll craziness to it - we're lucky we don't eat each other in this industry!” PeopleKnowsHumansSometimesRememberKnow HowCrazyRocksIndustryCoupleFameLuckyMusicianTablesAddPocketsKnivesRock And RollBeing HumanCrazinessCrazy People Author:Corey Taylor
“My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances; weve become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.” PeopleWorldGivingHas BeensPlayWifeTerribleMusicianPerformancesMy WifeHopelessOrchestraGreat Success Author:Alexander McCall Smith
“The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest jazz musicians will be celebrated, and where people will come to learn about jazz, something to which my brother devoted his lifes work.” PeopleBrotherFameMusicianJazzMy BrotherHallsDevotedJazz MusicArtistryHall Of FameJazz Musician Author:Ahmet Ertegun
“I do have shout-outs to bands and musicians I like in my books, but the musical references can be misunderstood. Often, I have people listening to music that I would never listen to personally, because it fits and defines their character.” PeopleBookCharacterListeningFitBandMusicianMusicalMisunderstoodListening To Music Author:George Pelecanos
“How do I do that preparation [for film]? Just an immersion. I have a musician's, I guess, ear for the sound of the voice but it's also important to me, in the case of [playing] someone who is controversial, to get the outlines of the character right because how they present themselves to the world has a great deal to do with how people feel about them.” PeopleWorldFeelsImportantCharacterFilmSoundVoiceDealsCasesMusicianEarsPreparationControversialOutlinesImmersionPlaying Someone Author:Meryl Streep
“I visit studios. Just to get the feel, the smell, and see what other people are doing. Not only listening to the radio, but going to studios, greeting musicians and artists, just getting a vibe.” PeopleFeelsArtistListeningMusicianRadioStudiosSmellGreetings Author:Jimmy Cliff
“I feel like what I'm best at is being a musician and a performer. I want to use that to help people who are good at starting nonprofits.” PeopleWantFeelsHelpingUseMusicianStartingPerformersNonprofits Author:Kathleen Hanna
“To be a good musician, you need to give people what they want, what they need.” PeopleWantNeedsGivingMusician Author:Andy Grammer
“Youll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.” PeopleNeedsWritingSongStrangeMusicianEncountersRitualSuperstitions Author:Dar Williams
“A lot of people think that the music was responsible for a lot of changes in the Sixties, but I think the music came out of it. The music wouldnt have happened without the social changes.” PeopleThinkingSocialChangeMusicHistoryHappenedSocietyMusicianResponsibleSixtySocial ChangeWrong Reasons Author:Steve Winwood
“I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so its difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting - I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels.” PeopleThinkingKnowsDifficultMusicianSeedsLabelsAttractiveComposerBrahms Author:Nigel Kennedy
“John McCutcheon is not only one of the best musicians in the USA, but also a great singer, songwriter, and song leader. And not just incidentally, he is committed to helping hard-working people everywhere to organize and push this world in a better direction.” PeopleWorldHardHelpingSongLeaderThis WorldHard WorkMusicianCommittedSingersUsaSongwritersOrganizeSinger Songwriters Author:Pete Seeger
“There's people that say “It's not fair You have all that stuff.” I wasn't born with it. It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you're new at this- and by “new at it.” I mean 15 years in, or even 20- you're just starting to grow traction. Young musicians believe they should be able to throw a band together and be famous, and anything that's in their way is unfair and evil. What are you, in your 20s, you picked up a guitar? Give it a minute.” PeopleIfsWayGivingShouldYearsBelieveMeanWholeAbleTogetherYoungEvilGrowsStuffProcessBornMinutesBandMusicianFairsGuitarStartingWhole LifeHorribleUnfairNot FairTraction Author:Louis C. K.
“As musicians it's often difficult. You go to a dinner party and most people treat you like some kind of exotic animal and in a way like you don't have any problems and that it's all fantastic and glamorous and that you wake up in the morning, you kick the groupies out of bed, you roll onto the floor onto a needle, right, which fills you with a lovely substance, you roll into the gutter and you stare at the moon and out comes beautiful poetry. The fact of the matter is that that's nonsense. It's a lot of hard work.” PeopleWayKindMatterHardFactsProblemBeautifulDifficultAnimalPartyMorningHard WorkLike YouBedMoonMusicianTreatsWake UpDinnerLovelyFantasticSubstanceStaringKicksNonsenseGlamorousNeedlesExoticDinner PartyGuttersGroupieBeautiful PoetryExotic Animals Author:Brian Molko
“I'm one of the people who was a pioneer in encouraging musicians, early in the game, to get interested in technology, and now all the musicians are getting into it.” PeopleGamesTechnologyMusicianPioneers Author:Herbie Hancock
“Most people define themselves by what they do - 'I'm a musician.' Then one day it occurred to me that I'm only a musician when I'm playing music - or writing music, or talking about music. I don't do that 24 hours a day. I'm also a father, a son, a husband, a citizen - I mean, when I go to vote, I'm not thinking of myself as 'a musician.'” PeopleThinkingWritingMeanFatherHoursTalkingSonCitizensOne DayHusbandMusicianVotePlaying MusicWriting Music Author:Herbie Hancock
“Collaborations work when both or however many parties are the right people to be working together for whatever reason - whether it's two musicians or a musician and a filmmaker or a musician and a choreographer, if the combination is right, the possibility exists to make something greater than the individuals could make. But if the combination is wrong than you generally end up with a compromised piece is probably less than the individuals could make.” PeopleIfsTwoEndsReasonTogetherIndividualPartyGreaterPiecesPossibilityMusicianCombinationFilmmakerWorking TogetherCollaborationChoreographers Author:John Parish
“What we should be doing as musicians is trying to bring people together.” PeopleShouldTryingTogetherMusician Author:Elton John
“We are all God's people; we have to get along and the [religious leaders] have to lead the way. If they don't do it, who else is going to do it? They're not going to do it and it's left to musicians or to someone else to deal with it.” PeopleIfsWayLeftReligiousDealsLeaderMusicianReligious Leaders Author:Elton John
“I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people are not doing that, they're not artists - they're artisans.” PeopleIfsFeelsArtArtistCreativityMusicianControversyControversialArt And CreativityArtisans Author:Yoko Ono
“When you're making your living as a writer or an artist or a musician, you kind of live in a trance. You're sort of in the day-to-day world, you're certainly there for your day-to-day relationships with people, and so on.” PeopleWorldKindArtistMusicianDay To DayTrance Author:Stephen R. Bissette
“If there is a gratification which I envy any people in this world it is to your country [Italy] its music. This is the favorite passion of my soul, and fortune has cast my lot in a country where it is in a state of deplorable barbarism.” PeopleIfsWorldSoulCountryStatesPassionMusicThis WorldMusicianFortuneCastsEnvyMy SoulGratificationBarbarism Book:The portable Thomas Jefferson Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson
“People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.” PeopleInspirationalHelpingGivenSoundMusicTalentProduceMusicianInstrumentsMusicalTunesMagnificentEmanateMusical Instruments Author:Franz Grillparzer
“An animal can learn to fight, but to sing beautiful things and make people believe them.” PeopleBelieveBeautifulFightingBeliefAnimalMusicMusicianBeautiful Things Author:Dalton Trumbo
“First, I think of myself as a brand, a businesswoman. Musician is something I just do because it's my passion - I love it and it's something I do for fun. I love music and I love to make people dance.” PeopleThinkingFirstsPassionFunMusicianBrandsMy PassionMusic LoveI Love Music Author:Paris Hilton
“It's a very weird job to have as a musician, because you spend long periods of time alone and then you have to go work with people for a long period of time and present your music after you've been making it by yourself. It's a very drastic phase.” PeopleLongJobsPeriodsMusicianPhasesMe AloneLong Periods Of TimeAlone TimeDrastic Author:Angel Deradoorian
“I know a lot of actors who started out as musicians and have very successful careers as actors, but most people don't know them as musicians.” PeopleKnowsActorsCareersSuccessfulMusicianSuccessful Career Author:Rick Springfield
“You're collaborating with people you don't even know, when you're making a film. You're collaborating with people you've never seen. So, the collaborative process is very, very different than when you're collaborating on a record with the musicians you've worked with all your life.” PeopleKnowsDifferentFilmProcessRecordsMusicianCollaborating Author:Nick Cave
“When we talk of architecture, people usually think of something static; this is wrong. What we are thinking of is an architecture similar to the dynamic and musical architecture achieved by the Futurist musician Pratella. Architecture is found in the movement of colours, of smoke from a chimney and in metallic structures, when they are expressed in states of mind which are violent and chaotic.” PeopleThinkingMindStatesFoundMovementMusicianStructureMusicalArchitectureViolentSmokeColourState Of MindChaoticStaticChimneysFuturistMetallic Author:Carlo Carra
“Having a mood disorder is not synonymous with having artistic talent, but it is true that people in the so-called creative professions-writers, actors, artists, musicians-have a higher than normal incidence of such illnesses, and there are also a disproportionate number of alcoholics in these fields whose drinking may be an attempt to medicate the anxiety of depression.” PeopleMayArtistActorsNumbersCreativeTalentFieldsHigherDepressionNormalAnxietyMusicianDrinkingIllnessProfessionMoodMental IllnessArtisticDisorderAlcoholicsIncidenceArtistic TalentMood Disorders Author:Tracy Thompson
“I believe in the spiritual warfare. There are people who pick sides. The lord of this world is Satan. You can do a deal with him to have all the pleasures of this world. You can go to youtube and search Illuminati, and you'll see stuff you wouldn't believe about very famous musicians and their musicians that are very clearly Satanic images.” PeopleWorldBelieveSpiritualI BelieveStuffSidesCan DoPleasureDealsLordThis WorldMusicianPicksI Believe InSatanWarfareYoutubeSatanicSpiritual WarfareFamous MusicianVery Famous Author:Stephen Baldwin
“I hold my time with the Black Crowes with the utmost respect and sincerest appreciation. It is a huge swath of my life’s body of work. I couldn’t be more proud of what we accomplished and deeply moved by the relationships people created and maintained with my music. That alone is the greatest honor of being a musician.” PeopleLifeBodyBlackMusicHugeProudHonorMusicianMovedAppreciationMy TimeAccomplished Author:Rich Robinson
“Musicians are like politicians. They're the last people who should be making music, just like politicians are the last people who should be running things.” PeopleShouldRunningLastsPoliticianMusician Author:Nigel Godrich
“If you're allowed to make your mistakes, I think you should. But people don't really like hearing you admit them. Although I'd never wanted to dump on the musicians that were involved in that... Because it was not their fault.” PeopleIfsThinkingShouldWantedMistakeInvolvedMusicianFaultsHearingDump Author:Joe Strummer
“I have no illusions about being a genius musician. I pride myself on being a soldier, a warrior for jazz. I trained a lot of young people, and I've learned my lessons well. I'd like to keep the flame burning.” PeopleWellsYoungPrideGeniusLessonsMusicianIllusionTrainJazzSoldierWarriorBurningFlamesI've LearnedComposer Author:Phil Woods
“Because when you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in their face after they deliver monumental feats of music, you're disrespectful to inspiration, and we as musicians have to inspire people who go to work every day, and they listen to that Beyonce album and they feel like it takes them to another place.” PeopleFeelsArtInspirationFacesMusicInspireMusicianAlbumsCraftsFeatsDisrespectfulBeyonce Author:Kanye West
“I would like for people to not be stuck by the rules of what is expected of a classical musician. If you really want to do something different, don't be afraid to do so. Think of music itself and not the rules or expectations of people.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantDifferentMusicianExpectationsExpectedStuckClassical MusicClassical Musicians Author:Charlie Albright
“I remember the university as being very encouraging, especially to experimentation. I think you always get a lot of musicians in any art community, and it seemed like a lot of people I knew worked on films that got made locally.” PeopleThinkingArtMadeRememberFilmCommunityMusicianUniversityExperimentation Author:Neil Farber
“There are street artists. Street musicians. Street actors. But there are no street physicists. A little known secret is that a physicist is one of the most employable people in the marketplace - a physicist is a trained problem solver.” PeopleLittlesProblemArtistActorsSecretKnownStreetsMusicianPhysicistMarketplaceProblem Solvers Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“A conundrum of music is that music brings people together, yet to become a skilled musician involves a certain amount of lonely time in which you're just figuring it out, practicing.” PeopleTogetherCertainAmountMusicianMusic IsLonelyConundrumsFiguring It Author:Michael Tilson Thomas
“We're all different. Some people are musicians, some people are actors, some people are agents and some people are accountants... We're all different.” PeopleDifferentActorsMusicianAgentsAccountants Author:Anthony Hopkins
“I think people who basically do one thing like Eric Clapton is great. But I've always enjoyed playing different kinds of music and playing with different kinds of musicians because I find that really interesting, like learning and working with Kip Hanrahan. There's a great conga player called Milton Cardona and he taught me a lot of the nuances, he's a Santeria Priest and so he knows his onions as it were.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindDifferentInterestingPlayerOne ThingTaughtMusicianEnjoyedPriestsDifferent KindsReally InterestingNuanceEricOnionsMiltonDifferent Kinds Of MusicCongas Author:Jack Bruce
“Acting is a creative process, and directing and music. I think creative people - and I take myself as a creative person and it doesn't mean you have to be an actor, a musician, or a painter - but I think if you are in a creative profession or a creative business you do have a heightened awareness.” PeopleIfsThinkingMeanPersonsActorsProcessActingCreativeAwarenessMusicianProfessionPainterCreative ProcessCreative PeopleCreative PersonCreative Business Author:Anthony Hopkins
“If you're trying to connect to people with music - it's more of an outward process and a lot of times musicians can be very inward.” PeopleIfsTryingProcessMusicianInward Author:Dave Grohl
“Most people you'd tell "I'm gonna be a musician," they'd say, "you're crazy, you're gonna starve, you're gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you'll never make it, there's too much competition, it's a terrible business," etc. But my chorus teacher in high school said, "you've got what it takes to be a really good professional musician, you should consider it." That was an epiphany for me. So I thought, well, maybe I can help somebody, too.” PeopleShouldWellsSaidI CanHelpingSchoolPoorToo MuchTeacherCrazyTerribleDrugMusicianHigh SchoolCompetitionEtcJailAddictEpiphanyChorusDrug Addict Author:Billy Joel
“It's just all love. That's what music is. That's why music is created. To make people feel good, to uplift people. That's what musicians are for: to give everyone an escape, to let everyone feel good and take people out of everyday problems, so that they can hear music and sing words that are hopefully relatable.” PeopleGivingFeelsProblemMusicianMusic IsEverydayFeel GoodHopefullyUpliftingRelatableEveryday Problems Author:Bruno Mars
“If your gig is not in an office for eight hours a day, its going to be somewhere. If you're a truck driver, you get on a road. If you're a musician, you go to where the people are going to show up and you take the gig. I enjoy it, so I don't and I'm not complaining. Its just the traveling can get to be a bit much.” PeopleIfsShowsBitsEnjoyHoursOfficeMusicianEightComplainingDriversTruckGigsTruck Driver Author:Joel Plaskett
“Any true musician, true artist, knows that when they're in that point of total artistic creation, whether on stage or in the studio or writing or whatever, that's the closest moment [to creation]. And that's what keeps all these people addicted to getting back to that moment again.” PeopleKnowsWritingMomentsArtistStageCreationMusicianStudiosArtisticThat MomentClosestTrue ArtistsArtistic Creation Author:Richard Ashcroft