“The musician lifestyle is not easy for most people to understand. This is something I'm struggling with. When you're on tour, people think you're just having the time of your life and it's really romantic.” PeopleThinkingEasyStruggleMusicianLifestyleTime Of Your LifeReally Romantic Author:Sharon Van Etten
“I do not believe, as do so many musicians, that genius should be left to fight its way to the light. Genius is too rare, too precious, to be permitted to waste the best years of life--the years of youth and lofty dreams--in a heart-breaking struggle for bread. To starve the soul with the body is to do worse than murder. Think, too, of what the public loses!” ThinkingWayShouldYearsBelieveHeartSoulDreamBodyLightFightingLeftLosesStruggleYouthGeniusWasteMusicianMurderBreadLoftyBest YearHeart BreakingYears Of Life Author:Ignacy Jan Paderewski
“Art has been good for my soul. And it's been good for my brain. I think I'm a better painter now than I was a musician growing up. You struggle to see things and translate an image through your hands to a canvas.” ThinkingHas BeensArtSoulHandsBrainStruggleGrowing UpGrowingMusicianPainterMy SoulTranslateCanvas Author:Anne Sweeney
“I feel like I'm struggling now, and nearly every musician I know feels that way - even the most successful ones. I realize that I'm very lucky, but I still feel like I could be doing so much better.” KnowsWayFeelsStillsRealizingStruggleSuccessfulLuckyMusician Author:Eleanor Friedberger
“Occasionally I hear a band that blows me away. For instance, there's a musician in Oakland named Weasel Walter who has a band called the Flying Luttenbachers. Go see the Flying Luttenbachers when they're in your town. He's one of the greatest rock composers who ever lived, and he's struggling and living like a poverty-stricken hermit.” PovertyStruggleRocksBandMusicianTownsBlowFlyingInstanceComposerHermitsOur TownWeaselsOakland Author:Glenn Branca
“I think a lot of actors, comedians, musicians, artists are drawn to this world, because you're allowed to excavate whatever it is that you're struggling with, and hopefully turn it into art.” ThinkingWorldArtArtistTurnsActorsStruggleThis WorldMusicianHopefullyComedian Author:Sandra Bullock
“I saw so many amazing musicians struggling to build something good. They would play and play... and play some more, but it seemed like there was something missing. I wanted to go someplace higher myself, and go there with the people who come to hear me play. So I began to envision events with their own gravity, that would pull a community of people together for a meaningful experience.” PeoplePlayWantedTogetherCommunityStruggleSawsMissingEventsHigherMusicianMeaningfulGravity Author:Dave Madden
“I haven't figured out how to do anything yet besides recording music - I don't even entirely know how to do that. My favorite phrase is "It takes a lot of imagination to have no talent." So it's a struggle because I struggle between thinking about whether or not I'm actually a musician, am I actually an artist. Does it matter what I'm doing? Should I just go and jump off a bridge? Thinking about the social hierarchy and the fact that I'm American, and how I don't identify with being American, nor do I identify with any nationality or my race.” ThinkingArtistImaginationStruggleTalentMusicianMy Favorite Author:Willis Earl Beal
“Everybody struggles with get tiring as a musician having to play the same songs over and over again on one level or another. That is why you're cast to write the best songs you can. It keeps it going for you. My old man used to tell me be careful what you write you might have to play it for the rest of your life. That is always a challenge and the best way to remedy it is to write.” MenWritingSongChallengesStruggleMusicianCarefulOld ManBe CarefulTire Author:Crosby Loggins
“I think most people who decide to become a musician have to be prepared for some degree of struggle. It makes the art better if you go through some struggles. To be an artist, in any form, you have to develop some sense of compassion and empathy - it's an important quality for everyone to have, on a human level. But I think, as part of our job, you have to be able to do that, so suffering, tends - if you allow it - to let you look on the bright side. It will help with those senses.” PeopleThinkingArtImportantHelpingArtistSufferingQualityCompassionStruggleMusicianEmpathyArt IsBe PreparedBright Side Author:Reeve Carney
“I'm not that type of musician where I can sit down at the piano and work out a song; I actually really enjoy that process of sitting with somebody and having nothing and then suddenly something starts appearing. You struggle with it, and then suddenly a song starts to appear. Then, you've got to try and muscle it - there's that word again - into something and you do. You tussle with it and play with it and roll around with it and suddenly, magically, something appears.” TryingSongEnjoyStruggleMusicianWork Out Author:Dave Gahan
“The anti-nuke movement has important and far-reaching implications for grassroots organizing. It can unite kids and musicians, everybody, whether they're leftist or rightist, or radical, or Republican, because energy is energy. But in fact, it is a real political struggle - it shows people that it's big business against the people.” PeopleImportantRealFactsShowsBigsKidsPoliticalEnergyStruggleMovementRepublicanMusicianRadicalReachingImplicationsBig BusinessLeftistsGrassrootsNukesPolitical Struggle Author:Bonnie Raitt
“I know a lot of people who are struggling musicians; it's a hard life, and I've risked being that. The rewards are tremendous now that I've made it, I thank God every day. But I put it all on the line for it.” PeopleKnowsMadeHardLinesStruggleMusicianRewardsMade ItThank GodRock N RollHard Life Author:Kid Rock