“Why do we idolise Christian singers and speakers? We go from glorifying musicians in the world to glorifying Christian musicians. It's all idolatry!Satan is getting a great victory as we seem to worship these ministers on tapes and records and clammer to get their autographs in churches and concert halls from coast to coast.” WorldSeemsChristianChurchRecordsVictoryWorshipMusicianSingersMinistersSatanHallsConcertsSpeakersTapeCoastIdolatryAutographsGreat Victory Author:Keith Green
“I honestly haven't thought much about what to play and where, perhaps i should...it seems like most musicians are better at that than I am.” ShouldPlaySeemsHavensMusicianHonestly Author:Moby
“I am really inspired by writers, and weirdly - respect music journalists, which I think makes me the exception amongst most musicians. I think it's a craft. I think it's been really neglected - sadly. I think about the days of the great legendary rock critics. Who's going to become that when magazines and newspapers don't pay anyone properly or don't seem to respect the history or research that is required?” ThinkingSeemsPayRocksMusicianResearchCriticsInspiredNewspapersMagazinesCraftsJournalistExceptionNeglectedLegendary Author:Emily Haines
“I always wanted to be a musician, 100 percent, my whole life. I went to school, I did music theory, I did voice training and piano lessons, and while I was a decent musician, it didn't seem like enough for me. I felt like I wanted to make more than just music.” EnoughWholeSeemsWantedSchoolFeltVoiceTheoryLessonsMusicianTrainingPercentWhole LifePianoDecentPiano LessonMusic Theory Author:Adria Petty
“The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions.” KnowsEnoughSeemsLosesPositionMusician Author:Danger Mouse
“Although I have guitars all around and I pick themm up occasionally and write a tune and make a record, I don't really see myself as a musician. It may seem a funny thing to say. It's just like, I write lyrics amd I make up songs, but I'm not a great lyricist or songwriter or producer. It's when you put all these things together - that makes me.” WritingMaySeemsTogetherSongRecordsMusicianPicksGuitarProducersTunesSongwritersFunny ThingsLyricists Author:George Harrison
“Anybody who'd expend energy preventing people from hearing music seems not to understand the basic principal of making music in the first place. It's so antithetical to being a musician.” PeopleFirstsSeemsEnergyMusicianHearingPrincipalPreventingHearing Music Author:Jeff Tweedy
“The jazz guitarist Peter Sprague calls his home recording studio SpragueLand, but sometimes it seems that the moniker better captures the way he has turned the entire southland into his own musical playground. Sprague is a highly versatile musician who draws on the wellsprings of jazz and Brazilian music as primary influences.” WaySometimesHomeSeemsInfluenceMusicianDrawsJazzMusicalStudiosPrimariesCapturePeterGuitaristPlaygroundsVersatileRecording StudioWellspringBrazilian Music Author:Andrew S. Gilbert
“Berlin seems like a place of healing to me though: you have both the Holocaust Memorial and Hiroshima Strasse side-by-side there. You have the whole last century libraried and you can see exactly what we did. Now there's lots of artists and musicians moving there because they can't afford the rent in London and New York, and they're having children and making it a gentle place. It seems to be a place of hope now.” ChildrenWholeSeemsLastsMovingArtistSidesHealingCenturyNew YorkMusicianLondonGentleHolocaustMemorialBerlinHaving ChildrenHiroshimaHolocaust Memorial Author:Robert Montgomery
“There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.” WantSeemsLinesDealsTakenToo MuchRocksBandMusicianIncomeFlightHotelInclinationRock MusicCarefreeRock Musicians Author:Ian Anderson
“I only say this because a lot of people seem to think that if you're a musician you want to be a celebrity. But most musicians in the world aren't celebrities, and pretty much everything about the concept of 'celebrity' is a complete load of bollocks anyhow.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWantSeemsMusicianConceptsLoad Author:Brooke Fraser
“Musicians, actors, writers - we're all neurotic, odd people who've lucked into accidental careers. So I just don't like being around public figures with that sense of entitlement, it just seems unhealthy, and it strips so much potential for them to develop as a human being.” PeopleHumansSeemsActorsHuman BeingsCareersFiguresMusicianOddNeuroticEntitlementUnhealthyPublic FiguresSense 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
“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
“Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.” SeemsArtistSeaPoetPerceptionMusicianContemporaryVersionsPainterOfficialsAccurateContemporary Life Author:Billy Joel
“It's usually important to me to get my idea out first because a lot of times my ideas will seem weird to musicians.” FirstsImportantIdeasSeemsMusician Author:Boots Riley
“I think that it's fear. The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions. If you're 22 years old and you can't believe you're even in the position to have a career making music, the first thing you're going to think is: Maintain. Don't lose it. And that's precisely what causes you to lose everything.” IfsThinkingKnowsYearsFirstsBelieveEnoughSeemsCausesLosesCareersPositionMusician Author:Steven Soderbergh
“As for style, there is something about the way musicians dress-they seem to be able to create their own world within their fashion alone.” WorldWaySeemsAbleFashionStyleMusicianDresses Author:Nicole Richie
“Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make. Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on. Actually, practically nothing is going on.” PeopleGivingHumansImportantBookPlayUseShowsSeemsFilmMovingArtistReligionSoundHuman BeingsTalkingWonderfulAtheismMusicianSingersLovelyDancerEnterpriseTemplesFraudArchitectMarvelousPeople TalkingTalking Much Author:Kurt Vonnegut