“I didn't have any aspirations of becoming famous or successful; in fact I was scared to death of all that. I remember somebody once said that if a rock musician goes on tour, he goes insane. I was very impressionable and I carried this useless weight of fear around with me about going on tour, all because of this thing somebody said.” IfsSaidFactsRememberSuccessfulRocksGoes OnBecomingMusicianWeightScaredInsaneUselessAspirationRock MusicImpressionableRock MusiciansBecoming Famous Author:Steve Vai
“Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times.” WellsAbleArtistOrderActorsSuccessfulMusicianPainterAll TimeBeing SuccessfulGreat Artist Author:Lady Gaga
“The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid.” PeopleSuccessfulShareListeningRight NowMusicianJazzLions1960sAvoided Author:Branford Marsalis
“I realized that I don't like touring. I'll never complain about it because no one wants to hear about a relatively successful musician complain about the hardships of staying in a hotel.” WantSuccessfulMusicianComplainingI RealizedHotelStayingHardshipTouring Author:Moby
“Writers and musicians know well the importance of extensive reading for successful writing or extensive listening for musical composition. Likewise, visual artists... understand that successful artistic creativity depends upon extensive visual exposure.” KnowsWritingWellsArtistReadingCreativitySuccessfulListeningDependsMusicianImportanceMusicalArtisticVisualsCompositionExposureVisual ArtVisual ArtistArtistic CreativityMusical CompositionSuccessful WritingExtensive Reading Author:Paul Laseau
“Go find very early versions of things: the first TV pilot of a later-successful TV show; early audition tapes by famous actors; early demos by famous musicians. Focus on these early examples, not what they became over the next 20 years. Remember that what you're doing will constantly improve.” YearsFirstsShowsRememberNextActorsSuccessfulFocusExampleTvsMusicianVersionsPilotsTapeTv ShowsAuditionsDemosFamous MusicianFamous Actor Author:Derek Sivers
“I consider that success for anything, whether it's being a musician or a writer. As long as you can support yourself, you're successful. People need to change their idea of what success is.” PeopleNeedsLongIdeasSupportSuccessfulMusicianSuccessful PeopleNeed A Change Author:Joan Jett
“I was never successful in a noteworthy way, no one wrote about me, and I didn't have recognition. I've met a lot of musicians along the way who thought I was good, and they knew that was important to me. Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.” WayImportantEnoughSimpleCareersSuccessfulMetsMusicianRecognitionGood Enough Author:Lana Del Rey
“I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get into it because you love it.” KnowsMatterSuccessfulMusicianMaking Money Author:Rick Springfield
“I know a lot of actors who started out as musicians and have very successful careers as actors, but most people don't know them as musicians.” PeopleKnowsActorsCareersSuccessfulMusicianSuccessful Career Author:Rick Springfield
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.” KnowsWorldLoveLifeInspirationalWisdomLastsPeacePowerSuccessfulMeditationHeroMusicianYogaOvercomingTrue LovePeacefulRomantic LoveBeing In LoveHippieSinger SongwritersRock MusicPower Of LovePeace WarPeace And JusticePure LoveHeart LovePeace And LovePeace And HappinessPeacemakingPeace JusticeHappiness And LovePeace And HarmonyPeaceful WorldInspiring LoveWorld LovePeace LoveAchieving PeaceInternational PeacePeace Not WarUnlimited PowerPeacekeepingTrue PeaceGreater PowerViolence And PeaceWorld Peace DayInternational Peace DayPower And LoveFreedom And PeacePower Over OthersToo Much PowerViolence And WarWorld PowerGuitar MusicHippiPeace And ToleranceLove And WarEternal PeaceI Fell In Love With YouLove And HealingWorld And LovePeaceful RevolutionTypes Of LoveWar LovePromoting Peace Author:Jimi Hendrix
“Tom [Courtenay] and Albert Finney met Ron Harwood on the dresser, so that's how it started. It's a wonderful documentary. It's called Tosca's Kiss and Mr Hardwood told me about it when I asked him what the genesis was. It was made in 1983 and Verdi, who was rich and successful, toward the end of his life decided to build a mansion for himself in Milan, where he lived, and he stipulated that when he died opera singers and musicians - because he knew so many who were no longer playing at the Scala and some were poor - could live there.” MadeEndsPoorSuccessfulRichWonderfulMetsKissingMusicianDecidedDiedSingersOperaTomsDocumentariesGenesisMansionsMilanOpera SingersDressersVerdiHardwood Author:Dustin Hoffman
“I didn't know if it would be a successful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter...I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along...I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't...The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.” IfsKnowsWorldWayWritingKindDifferentMomentsWould BeAgeFacesAudienceSuccessfulSawsStageParticularMusicianMusic IsConcernedLifetimeFinishedDifferent KindsSongwritersKeep The FaithDifferent Kinds Of Music Author:Bruce Springsteen
“I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.” ThinkingLittlesArtistSufferingOrderBoysSuccessfulPlanetsMusicianCleverGreat Times Author:Ian Anderson
“Well you can see that I'm still in motion. It happens that you share the music with the audience. That is the best happiness an artist can have. I'm not alone on stage but with a group of musicians. So the more the music is successful, the more the audience feel happy about the music. It's the responsiblity of an artist to make his fans happy. That is proposition. I'm always talking about proposition.” FeelsWellsStillsHappensArtistTalkingAudienceSuccessfulGroupsShareFansStageMusicianMusic IsPropositionsNot Alone Author:Manu Dibango
“Wyclef is a musician that tried to unite as many musicians at once as possible. I am trying to be successful at that. The greatest challenge is that, I just got arrested for protesting in NYC for cutting the school budgets... And I think that it's important to stand up. Schools are important.” ThinkingTryingImportantSchoolChallengesSuccessfulCuttingMusicianBudgetsBeing SuccessfulArrestedNyc Author:Wyclef Jean
“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
“If you look at the history of popular music, the most successful musicians have started out being really marginal and esoteric. The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Madonna. Prince. Bruce Springsteen. Fleetwood Mac. David Bowie. Public Enemy. Nirvana.” IfsLooksEnemySuccessfulMusicianStonesBeing RealRollingMacsRolling StonesEsotericBowiePopular MusicSpringsteenPublic EnemiesFleetwood Mac Author:Moby
“I realized, that the life of a musician, even of a very lucky, very successful musician, wasn't really the life I wanted: I hate travel, I hate living out of suitcases, I hate the constant anxiety of being on stage.” WantedHateSuccessfulStageLuckyAnxietyMusicianI HateConstantI RealizedSuitcases Author:Garth Greenwell
“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
“I feel like if you compare yourself to other successful musicians you will never be successful, because there will always be someone above you who has done something more or done something first or done something better.” IfsFeelsFirstsDoneSuccessfulMusicianCompareBeing SuccessfulSomething Better Author:Thomston
“Obviously, [Wham!] made me a lot more comfortable as a musician. I was very confident that I would become a successful musician, but I had no idea I would be a celebrity.” MadeIdeasWould BeSuccessfulComfortableMusicianNo Idea Author:George Michael
“When you get in the middle of a career and you're successful, people come and offer you things. My biggest fear was that if you try to do something else and you're trying to build your music career, and then you say, "I'm going to go do a movie," and you're terrible, you can really hurt your music career because as a musician, the goal is to be cool. You're playing the guitar and you're in front of all these people and your vibe is to be as cool as you can possibly be.” PeopleIfsTryingGoalHurtCareersSuccessfulMiddleFrontsTerribleOffersMusicianGuitarSuccessful PeopleBeing CoolBiggest FearMusic Career Author:Tim McGraw
“In America, the poor have been invisibilised, because obviously this model of success that has been held out to the world must not show the poor, it must not show the condition of black people. It can only the successful ones, basketball players, musicians, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell. But I think the time will come when the Occupy movement will have to somehow formulate something more than just anger.” PeopleThinkingWorldHas BeensShowsAmericaBlackPoorSuccessfulPlayerConditionsMovementBasketballMusicianModelsBlack PeopleRiceBasketball PlayerOccupy Movement Author:Arundhati Roy
“Up until the rise of electronic music, if you were a musician in Portugal or Germany or Italy or Japan, and you didn't sing in English, you really were limited: You could be successful in the country where people understood your language. The world of electronic music is completely international. You have DJs from Finland making huge records for people in New Zealand, DJs in South Korea making huge records for people in France. By the fact that it doesn't cost anything to make, and that it transcends language, nation it accidentally accomplishes a lot of really remarkable things.” PeopleWorldCountryLanguageSuccessfulMusicianMusic IsAccomplishBeing SuccessfulRemarkableElectronic Music Author:Moby