Best musician & stars Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?”

Want Firsts Wells Mean Doe Asks Stars Rocks Band Musician Ask Me Rock N Roll Rock Star Livelihood

Author:Eddie Van Halen

“Clay Cook is a first class musician. Tender tormented genius here in 'North Star'. I will kill him if he leaves my band and he knows it. Great record.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Stars Class Records Genius Band Musician Cooks Clay First Class North Star

Author:Zac Brown

“I have more fun hanging out with my friends who are musicians and rock stars. You know politicians by and large are pretty stiff, pretty rehearsed.”

Knows Fun Stars Rocks Politician Musician My Friends Hanging Out Rock Star

Author:Jann Wenner

“Then you've a hunch what the music meant . . . hunger and night and the stars.”

Night Stars Music Musician Hunger Hunches

Book:Robert W. Service: Selected Poetry and Prose

Source: Robert W. Service: Selected Poetry and Prose

“Astronomers have a common ground for discussion with musicians in the harmony of the stars and musical concords in tetrads and triads of the fourth and the fifth, and with geometricians in the subject of vision; and in all other sciences many points, perhaps all, are common so far as the discussion of them is concerned. But the actual undertaking of works which are brought to perfection by the hand and its manipulation is the function of those who have been specially trained to deal with a single art.”

“I always liked playing music and I always wanted to be good at playing guitar. I always saw myself as an old man living in the mountains playing a guitar, but I didn't really turn that into a desire to be a professional musician or a singer or a rock star or anything like that.”

Men Wanted Desire Turns Stars Saws Rocks Mountain Musician Guitar Be Good Singers Old Man Rock Star Playing Music Playing Guitar

Author:Brett Dennen

“There're lots of musicians in my family, too. My mother sings incredibly well. I've got to make a record with my mother's voice on it. She sings a lyric soprano. We do the opposite. I'm a baritone. She's a star singer in her church. She always does her solo.”

Wells Doe Mother Stars Voice Church Records Musician My Family Opposites Singers Solo Sopranos Baritones

Author:Grace Jones

“Being a musician - it's easier for me to date an athlete. There's too much competition [with a musician]. There's too much know-it-all pop star.”

Knows Stars Too Much Easier Musician Competition Athlete Pops Pop Stars Know It All

Author:Jessica Simpson

“I'll probably pay more attention to the musicians in the pit than the stars because they're the closest you're going to get to normal people in the audience.”

People Stars Pay Attention Audience Normal Musician Closest Pits

Author:Chris Rock

“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.”

People Way Feels Certain Order Stars Rocks Musician Lifestyle Rock And Roll Rock Star Heroin

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“We're not going to be the coolest rock stars in the world. We're trying to be good musicians.”

World Trying Stars Rocks Musician Be Good Rock Star

Author:Eddie Vedder

“One thing about Kurt [Cobain] is before he was a musician, and before he was a rock star, he was an artist, and an artist with a capital A. What that means is that he had to create. It wasn't something that he chose to do - it chose him.”

Mean Artist Stars One Thing Rocks Musician Rock Star Cobain

Author:Brett Morgen

“Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.”

Play Dies Stars Rocks Musician Rock Star Comes And Goes

Author:Eddie Van Halen

“We have to focus on his early work, and just one or two of his movies, and elements of his TV shows, to keep his memory pure. People now know that Elvis could play a mean rhythm guitar himself, and needed no other musicians to perform a great song. But Elvis was not just a rock star, he was an all-round entertainer.”

People Knows Mean Two Play Shows Song Stars Memories Focus Rocks Tvs Needed Pure Elements Musician Guitar Rounds Rhythm Just One Tv Shows Rock Star Entertainers Early Work

Author:Pete Townshend

“Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their day.”

Stars Alive Rocks Musician Active Rock Star Classical Music Classical Musicians Tchaikovsky

Author:Seymour Stein

“My priorities now a a musician are so different now than they were as a kid. Everyone wants to be a rock star, and I wanted that too; I wanted to be on magazines and be running around the world and having all the fun.”

World Want Different Running Kids Wanted Fun Stars Rocks Musician Priorities Magazines Around The World Rock Star

Author:Blake Judd

“A lot of young artists and musicians that we work with, you think they're gonna want to come in and buy the rock star-looking leather jacket - whatever it is that you think they're gonna want. They all want a suit. They want a tuxedo jacket, they want a suit. They don't want to look like their dad in it, but they want a suit.”

Thinking Want Looks Young Artist Stars Rocks Dad Musician Suits Rock Star Jackets Leather Young Artists Leather Jackets Tuxedos

Author:Paul Weller

“I certainly know guys in comedy, I know some actors, and I definitely know some musicians, who have survived to a certain age and make a good living doing what they do, but nobody knows who they are. They wake up every day and they have the ability to get paid practicing their art, but underneath it all, if you scratched the surface, you still get, "If I only had my own show . . .," or "If I only had my own band . . ." It's what people always do when they want to be their own star.”

People Ifs Knows Want Art Stills Shows Age Guy Certain Actors Stars My Own Ability Comedy Band Musician Wake Up Paid Surface Survived Nobody Knows Good Living

Author:Denis Leary

“People who are qualified are symphonic orchestra players and jazz musicians; they're qualified to do what they do. Rock stars are lucky. It's a combination of right time, right place and having certain genes or a gimmick or whatever, but it's really not anything more than sugar. It tastes good and goes away fast.”

People Certain Stars Player Rocks Taste Lucky Musician Jazz Combination Sugar Genes Right Time Orchestra Qualified Rock Star Jazz Music Right Place Jazz Musician Gimmicks

Author:Gene Simmons

“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.”

“The so-called alleged 'art' of the video - well, the video has killed the radio star, but the video star killed the live musician, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.”

Wells Art Stars Musician Radio Video

Author:John Lydon

“Many of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives to try to become pertinent. And, at the end of the day, they never became pop stars. I counter stated that very strongly, and I continue to do that.”

Trying Ends Stars Musician Pops Objectives The End Of The Day Abandoned Aesthetic Pop Stars Pertinent And At The End Of The Day Greatest Musician

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.”

Believe Pain I Believe Stars Responsibility Music Share Duty Musician Musical Reach Out

Author:James Taylor

“Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true.”

Thinking Stars Rocks Musician Folks Honestly Rock Star Springsteen

Author:James Taylor

“Ike's problem was that he was a musician that always wanted to be a star; and was a star, locally, but never internationally... so he then changed the name to Ike and changed my name to Tina because if I ran away, Tina was his name. It was patented as you call it.”

Ifs Problem Wanted Names Stars Changed Musician Ran

Author:Tina Turner

“My parents were serious working musicians, but they were not stars - not like pop stars that you have now. They had to make a living and that meant touring, working hard, going on the road - and we were roped in.”

Hard Stars Parent Serious Musician Pops Touring Pop Stars

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“I see that you are working this vampire angle with some success. And kudos. Lots of girls love that sensitive-undead thing. But I'd drop the whole musician angle if I were you. Vampire rock stars are played out, and besides, you can't possible be very good.”

Ifs Whole Girl Stars Rocks Musician Very Good Vampire Sensitive Angle Rock Star Undead Girl Love

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels

“If I had lady-spider legs, I would weave a sky where the stars lined up. Matresses would be tied down tight to their trucks, bodies would never crash through windshields. The moon would rise above the wine-dark sea and give babies only to maidens and musicians who had prayed long and hard. Lost girls wouldn't need compasses or maps. They would find gingerbread paths to lead them out of the forest and home again. They would never sleep in silver boxes with white velvet sheets, not until they were wrinkled-paper grandmas and ready for the trip.”

“I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie - the networks just wouldn't spend the money today.”

Ifs Two Shows Happens Age Today Stars Born Week Majors Musician Starting Glad Golden Variety My Time Dancer Guests Bob Costumes Golden Age Starting Out Guest Stars

Author:Carol Burnett

“A burst of harmony so brilliant that it almost overwhelmed them surrounded Meg, the cherubim, Calvin, and Mr. Jenkins. But after a moment of breathlessness, Meg was able to open herself to the song of the farae, these strange creatures who were Deepened, rooted, yet never seperated from each other, no matter how great the distance. We are the song of the universe. We sing with the angelic host. We are musicians. The farae and the stars are the singers. Our song orders the rhythm of creation.”

Matter Moments Able Song Order Universe Stars Creation Strange Creatures Musician Harmony Distance Brilliant Singers Rhythm Host Rooted Overwhelmed Angelic Meg

Book:A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy

Source: A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy

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