“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 a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.” SelfAblePlayerTaughtMusicianPicksSelf Taught Author:Walter Becker
“The attitude of foreign to English musicians is unsympathetic, self-opinionated and pedantic. They believe that their tradition is the only one (this is specially true of the Viennese) and that anything that is not in accordance with that tradition is "wrong" and arises from insular ignorance.” BelieveSelfAttitudeIgnoranceMusicianTraditionAriseOpinionatedPedanticUnsympathetic Author:Ralph Vaughan Williams
“For some musicians it becomes self-reflexive to think, "I have to write some of my kind of songs now."” ThinkingWritingKindSelfSongMusician Author:Alan Licht
“I'm a self-taught musician so how I read music is kind of very weak and I kind of read my own version of tablature, I write my own crappy reminders on what I'm playing.” WritingKindSelfMy OwnTaughtMusicianMusic IsWeakVersionsRemindersSelf Taught Author:Jason Mraz
“I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do.” FeelsI CanSelfHelpingFeelingsMusicianConsciousPrivilegedSelf ConsciousSelf Absorbed Author:Sufjan Stevens
“I can't remember ever being really bored. I find life very interesting, actually. I think some other musicians are always looking for something to give them an idea, but I find I have to reject 90 percent of my ideas because they don't live up to some self-imposed standard. That's also why I don't make a record once a year. I throw so many things out, and I have to have something to say.” ThinkingGivingYearsI CanIdeasSelfRememberInterestingRecordsMusicianStandardsPercentBoredRejectsBeing RealVery Interesting Author:Tom Verlaine
“For me, I work very self-contained. It's literally just me sitting in a room doing it until the very end of the process when other musicians come in and instruments are recorded.” EndsSelfProcessRoomsMusicianSittingInstrumentsSelf Contained Author:Steven Price
“The marvels of God are not brought forth from one's self. Rather, it is more like a chord, a sound that is played. The tone does not come out of the chord itself, but rather, through the touch of the musician. I am, of course, the lyre and harp of God's kindness.” DoeSelfCoursesSoundKindnessMusicianToneChordsHarps Author:Hildegard of Bingen
“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
“It's just a joy to be able to work with a lot of different musicians. When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes.” DifferentSelfPlayAbleJoyTaughtMusicianToesGreat MusicSchooledGreat MusicianSelf Taught Author:Cass McCombs
“Really good musicians don't think of "self-reflection."” ThinkingSelfMusicianReflectionSelf Reflection Author:Dan Bejar
“I have found that the best cure for self pity is to do something to help someone else.” SelfHelpingFoundMusicianPityCuresSelf Pity Author:Carl Orr
“I'm a self-taught musician, so I never really had the restrictions of any one instrument. I would always just sort of pick up instruments and make noise with 'em.” SelfTaughtMusicianPicksInstrumentsNoiseEmsRestrictionSelf Taught Author:Adrian Grenier
“Many people, including myself, thought of Jobs as an inventor, an Edison-like figure, but he wasn't. I did a documentary on James Brown recently; and, oddly, I found a lot in common between Jobs and Brown. Jobs was also a fantastic performer, put on an extraordinary live show at his product launches, but he could also be ruthless, cruel and totally self-aggrandizing. And just as Brown surrounded himself with the very best musicians, Jobs understood the importance of hiring the absolutely most talented people and knew how crucial they were to the success of what he was trying to do.” PeopleTryingSelfShowsJobsFoundCommonFiguresProductsMusicianUnderstoodImportanceExtraordinaryIncludingFantasticBrownPerformersCrucialDocumentariesInventorRuthlessHiring Author:Alex Gibney
“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!” InspirationalMindSelfSongFreedomMusicMusicianIndependentSlaveryPositivitySelf RelianceOne LoveRelianceBad DayHippieFreedom Of ThoughtMusic LoveEmancipationNonconformityReggaeJamaicaIndependent ThoughtIndependent ThinkingThink For YourselfJamaicansBreaking FreeReggae MusicLove FreedomAtomic EnergyFreedom And PeaceConformity And IndividualityFree Your MindRastaAbolition Of SlaveryHippiMental SlaveryMind FreeJamaican MusicLove And FreedomSlavery FreedomMind Freedom Author:Bob Marley
“I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.” ThinkingSelfSufferingSelf EsteemMusicianLowsEsteemComplimentLow Self Esteem Author:James Taylor
“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