“My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.” ReasonOpportunityStuffDesignMusicianTrainingEngineersSynthesizers Author:Robert Moog
“But God has a few of us to whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.” KnowsMayReasonMusicianEarsWelcome Author:Robert Browning
“Success is nice, but it shouldn't be the only reason why you're a musician.” ReasonNiceMusicianReason Why Author:Chester Bennington
“They [the teachers at European conservatories] taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer.” ReasonWantedYoungDifferencesTeachTeacherTeachingTaughtHugeOffersMusicianReason WhyEducateTaught UsConservatory Author:Miroslav Vitous
“I find the fact that so few people buy albums to be strangely emancipating. There's absolutely no reason for 99% of musicians making albums to think about actually selling albums. So as a musician you can just make an album for the love of making albums.” PeopleThinkingReasonFactsMusicianAlbumsSellingNo Reason Author:Moby
“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
“One of the reasons I moved away from painting was because I eventually discovered that I wanted to deal more with motion, time, and performance - and that became a much bigger part of my life both as an actor and as a musician and someone who goes on stage and travels around the world and works on productions.” WorldReasonWantedActorsDealsStagePaintingGoes OnMusicianPerformancesBiggerMovedProductionsAround The World Author:Jared Leto
“As an artist I write about the world I want to live in. And as a musician and someone who is in the public eye, I think you have this responsibility to influence people. So I try influence people to live from their heart and make conscious decisions , and I try just inspire people to make positive change. That's purely the reason I do it. I want to see the world get better, you know?” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldWantWritingTryingHeartReasonEyeArtistDecisionResponsibilityInfluenceInspireMusicianConsciousGet BetterPublic EyePositive ChangeInfluencing People Author:Brett Dennen
“There are so many great players walking the planet but it is rare to find musicians that can live life together in a way that isn't ego centric. For whatever reason, musicians are just bizarrely composed humans. I think I'm living in the middle of a miracle.” ThinkingWayHumansReasonTogetherPlayerMiddlePlanetsWalkingEgoMusicianMiracleLive LifeLife Together Author:Crowder
“When you have the opportunity to make music with great musicians, take it. That's it. That's the only reason I need, really.” NeedsReasonOpportunityMusicianGreat MusicGreat Musician Author:Joss Stone
“Parenting changes your life, it changes how you hear yourself in relationship to others - which is part of the reason that a bunch of people in the rock community are sick of the goodwill and positive energy and love between these 45-year-old musicians who they preferred when they were 25 and taking stabs at each other.” PeopleYearsReasonEnergyCommunityLove IsRocksMusicianAnd LoveSickBunchChanging Your LifeGoodwillPositive Energy Author:Lars Ulrich
“The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the canvas the sublime lessons of philosophy, are so many proofs that an artistic genius should have no other guide except the torch of reason.” ShouldReasonPhilosophyArtistGeniusLessonsMusicianShould HavePhilosopherGuidesProofArtisticImmortalCanvasSublimeTorchesSculptorsTracingArtistic GeniusJean Jacques RousseauJacques Rousseau Author:Jacques-Louis David
“There are so many different musicians I look up to for different reasons - from hip-hop to rock to pop. Some are Alanis Morissette, Michael Jackson, Aerosmith, Pink, Avril Lavigne, Beyoncé, Lil Wayne.” LooksDifferentReasonRocksMusicianHip HopPopsHipsLook UpHopsWayneAerosmith Author:Manika
“When I lived in Seattle and Oregon, we partied, which is a large reason I don't know drugs or alcohol now because I saw the Destruction of so many great musicians and artists.” KnowsReasonArtistSawsDrugMusicianDestructionAlcoholGreat MusicSeattleOregonGreat Musician Author:Meredith Brooks
“I have seen so many bands and musicians fade away, especially the ones in my early days that treated me and my bands with contempt for no other reason than that they were headlining the show, not all though, with great exceptions such as Slade and Vinegar Joe.” ReasonShowsBandMusicianTreatedExceptionContemptFadesFade AwayVinegar Author:Bernie Marsden
“Basically, this industry is mostly run by men, and I think women have a harder time...I've had enough of the "Women in Rock" issues of magazines and all of that. There's no reason why we should have our own separate little genre; that's just ridiculous. Besides, what is the genre? I certainly don't fit into the whole "Lilith" thing (thank God), but I am a female musician. And there are enough other great females in music that don't have to fit into it, either.” ThinkingMenShouldLittlesReasonEnoughWholeRunningIssuesRocksIndustryFitMusicianFemaleShould HaveHarderRidiculousMagazinesGenreReason WhyNo ReasonThank GodHad EnoughLilithGreat FemaleFemale Musicians Author:Princess Superstar
“To be honest, I've never looked really hard for musicians. I'll just randomly meet people. I've never interviewed bandmates or anything like that. The reason I like playing with Chad and Devin is that they're just really, really good musicians and good players. There's not a lot of sloppiness going on.” PeopleHardReasonPlayerHonestMusicianBeing HonestChadSloppiness Author:Mary Timony
“There's really no reason for any musician, writer, actor to ever take themselves seriously. If you work in a needle exchange, take yourself seriously. You're doing good work. If you're involved in hostage negotiations and saving lives, you can have a sense of entitlement.” IfsReasonActorsInvolvedMusicianSavingNo ReasonGood WorkNegotiationDoing GoodNeedlesEntitlementHostageSave A LifeSense Of Entitlement Author:Moby
“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
“There's no reason to stop. Who knows what's around the bend? To participate, meet new people. It's mostly other musicians and people like you, or anybody I meet who's in this, that keeps me going.” PeopleKnowsReasonLike YouMusicianNo ReasonMeeting New PeopleAround The Bend Author:Stephen Malkmus
“I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician.” ReasonFilmMusician Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“My boyfriend's a musician, and I think when he's on stage is the only time he's not worrying. And so that's the reason he keeps doing it is because it gives him that sort of experience of weightlessness that I only get out of being sort of, deep into writing something or really lost in a moment on set, like it's available to me in these select moments through my work.” ThinkingGivingWritingReasonMomentsLostWorryStageMusicianAvailableOnly TimeSelectMy BoyfriendNot WorryingWeightlessness Author:Lena Dunham
“Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do.” ReasonComfortableMusicianJazzJazz MusicJazz Musician Author:Miles Davis
“I think a lot of electronic musicians are drawn to starting with texture because the whole reason we're working with electronics is to try to create new sounds or sounds that cannot be created acoustically. When you're doing that, it's nice to be able to just create a different palette for every single song. I feel like a lot of electronic music sounds like...Each album sounds like a compilation more than it does a band.” ThinkingTryingDifferentReasonSongNiceMusicianElectronic Music Author:Dan Deacon
“It is true, of course, that there is no way of knowing for sure whether or not you can trust someone, for the simple reason that circumstances change all of the time. You might know someone for several years, for instance, and trust him completely as your friend, but circumstances could change and he could become very hungry, and before you knew it you could be boiling in a soup pot, because there is no way of knowing for sure.” KnowsWayYearsReasonMightCoursesChangeSimpleKnowingTrustCircumstancesMusicianHungryInstanceNovelistsPotSoupBoiling Author:Daniel Handler