“I actually wanted to be a jazz musician first. My grandparents introduced me to Louis Armstrong. I loved Louis Armstrong so I took up the trumpet and just did that every day and practiced that.” FirstsWantedMusicianJazzGrandparentJazz MusicTrumpetsJazz MusicianArmstrong Author:Douglas Booth
“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.” WorldWantDifferentRunningKidsWantedFunStarsRocksMusicianPrioritiesMagazinesAround The WorldRock Star Author:Blake Judd
“I just wanted to tell the story of a bunch of musicians who had never had their story told before. There's no preaching or theorizing.” StoriesWantedMusicianBunchPreaching Author:Michael Azerrad
“I did a lot of writing when I was in college, and that's what I thought I wanted to do; saying that I wanted to be a writer seemed more reasonable than saying I wanted to be a musician.” WritingWantedCollegeMusicianReasonable Author:Jack Tatum
“He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard.” WantSaidHardWantedMusicianSingingDoctorsWant Me Author:Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
“I once had a young musician come to me and say that he wanted to be a professional musician. I asked him to write his list. When he came back to me, the three things in his life he most wanted were: to be paid for his music; to travel around the world; to meet new people. We came to the decision, after thinking really creatively, that if he got a job on a cruise ship, he would fulfill those goals.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWritingWantedJobsYoungThreeGoalDecisionMusicianPaidListsShipsAround The WorldThree ThingsCruiseMeeting New PeopleCruise ShipsMost Wanted Author:Phil Keoghan
“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
“When I was a kid, all I wanted to do was to be a musician. I lost everything I had, but I just knew that someday I'd be able to tell the world to 'go big or go home.' The world needs to know.” KnowsWorldNeedsHomeBigsKidsAbleWantedLostMusicianSomedayLost Everything Author:Derek Waters
“The only advice we gave Richie Faulkner was we wanted Richie to be his own guy. You have to let your musicians in your band be who they are.” WantedGuyAdviceBandMusician Author:Rob Halford
“I really wanted a guitar. As A little boy I used to tell people I was going to be a musician. They would humor me, and I'd make up thirty minute songs and drive them nuts.” PeopleLittlesWantedUsedSongBoysMinutesMusicianGuitarThirtyNutsLittle Boys Author:Steve Young
“As an artist, I never wanted to be fettered by gender nor recognized or defined as a female poet, musician or singer. They don't do that with men - nobody says Picasso, the male artist. Curators call me up and say, "We want your work to be in a show about women artists," and I'm like, why? For Christ's sake, do we have to attach a gender onto everything?” MenWantShowsWantedArtistChristPoetMusicianFemaleMalesSakeGenderSingersDefinedCall MeCuratorWoman Artist Author:Patti Smith
“My attitude towards my time as a musician, is that I really wanted to completely reinvent myself and not be one of these people who, twenty, thirty years later, is trying to recreate something that happened. I'm glad that Neil Young still makes records, but I don't know that everybody needs to be frozen in time forever. I think it's good that pop music is ephemeral.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsTryingYearsStillsWantedYoungAttitudeForeverRecordsHappenedMusicianMusic IsTwentiesPopsGladThirtyMy TimeFrozenPop MusicThirty YearsMy AttitudeEphemeralFrozen In Time Author:Kurt Ralske
“After Hurricane Katrina, I wanted to go back to New Orleans to help musicians return to the city. But Andrew Young advised me, "If you want to help people, go work at an investment bank." His contrarian advice opened my eyes to the importance of capital. "Learn how to make some money before you give it away." I learned that you can bring about good in the world especially if you have a paycheck.” PeopleIfsWorldWantGivingHelpingEyeWantedYoungCitiesAdviceReturnMusicianImportanceInvestmentNew OrleansHurricanesAndrewPaychecksKatrinaHurricane KatrinaGood In The World Author:Kabir Sehgal
“From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.” RealWantedDesireChildhoodMusicianAffectionRecollection Author:John Philip Sousa
“I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.” PeopleWantedLastsMusicianHappeningsGladGoing AwayCropsMusic Business 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.” IfsProblemWantedNamesStarsChangedMusicianRan Author:Tina Turner
“I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.” PeopleRealWould BeAgeWantedGuyFallGoes OnMusicianFalling In LoveHanging OutPhasesDaddyReal Relationship Author:Olivia Wilde
“I think that if a real princess was lost in this modern world and she could be whatever she wanted, she would be a musician,' Blanche said slowly. 'A violinist, or a harpist. That would be the only place where she could find solace for her lost kingdom.” IfsThinkingWorldSaidRealWould BeWantedLostModernMusicianKingdomsPrincessModern WorldSolaceViolinistBlanche Author:Regina Doman
“Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician. Maybe an artist. I'd dress in black turtlenecks and smoke Gitanes. I'd listen to cool jazz in clubs, getting up to read devastating truths from my notebook, leaning against the microphone, cigarette dangling from my hand.” HandsWantedArtistBlackGrowing UpGrowingPoetMusicianDecidedDressesJazzClubsSmokeCigaretteNotebookMicrophonesBohemianBeatnikTurtlenecksCool Jazz Author:Charles de Lint