American Musician Quotes

Great is thy faithfulness! Great is thy faithfulness!
Morning by morning new mercies I see;
All I have needed thy hand has provided.
Great is thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me.

Thomas O. Chisholm

The creation of music is just as natural as the air we breathe. I believe music is really a free thing, and any way you Can enjoy it, you should.

Ornette Coleman

We today have the blues, too, but it is a blues of our day. It's more of the mind and heart and not of the beating of the back.

Joe Williams (jazz singer)

This documentary has lifted the lid off a coffin, and now I'm looking at stuff that I didn't know was there.

Sophie B. Hawkins

Simply because you can breathe, doesn't mean you're alive, or that you really live.

When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.

Little girl, little boy,
with the cornrowed style
let me see your pretty face,
let me see your handsome smile.

Camille Yarbrough

In New Orleans you're born into music and you die into music and music all in between.

I think it's important for people to be able to think for themselves and not just flock mentality like: "Yes, leader; yes, band; yes, celebrity; yes, entertainer, whatever you say, I'll do."

Sometimes my feelings get so big that I just want to swim out into the darkness. Just jump off the end of the world. Sometimes I want to dig, right down to the bones of everything. Sometimes when you dig, you dig up stuff you might not want to find. But that's where the good stuff lies.

Cecil Castellucci

Those who hope for purity and righteousness always try and destroy that which disturbs them. They think the disturbance comes from outside themselves. This is a serious problem. Wars, suicide bombings, and all sorts of other nasty things start from the premise that we can destroy 'evil' outside ourselves without dealing with the evil within.

Maybe I should write some songs like Mozart
'Cause many people don't believe rap is an art.

I don't know him from a can of paint. I'm 15 years deep. That's how you attack a king? You attack moi? Come on, man. You got to come correct. You the laughing stock. People are like, 'You can't be serious.

The word enchant comes from the Latin 'incantare', meaning to sing or chant magical words or sounds.

Jonathan Goldman

I have really bad days and I have really OK days. It's strange. I'm blessed. I'm alive. I'm here.

[If] you don't have any soul and you don't have any talent, jazz is what you should do.... any fool can do it; all you gotta do is practice.

Stewart Copeland

Alcohol, acid, cocaine... they were just affairs. When I met heroin it was true love.

In fact, drinking milk and eating dairy products can rob your body of calcium and contribute to osteoporosis. If you eat dark green leafy vegetables like kale, collards, and mustard greens, you can get enough calcium from a vegan diet.

I'm staggered by the question of what it's like to be a multimillionaire. I always have to remind myself that I am.

What does it mean that social structures among young people are so often predicated upon trying really, really hard to appear to not-be-trying?

Oh the moonlight's fair tonight along the Wabash.
From the fields there comes the breath of new-mown hay;
Thro' the sycamores the candle lights are gleaming,
On the banks of the Wabash far away.

To exceed the expectations of others, we must first raise expectations of ourselves.

Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening

Pauline Oliveros

We will begin the long process of rebuilding the world's greatest military, we will level the playing field in international trade and revitalize American industry, we will give our friends reason to trust us again. Our enemies will have reason to fear us again, and our citizens will have reason to believe again. No, you don't know America, and you don't want to find out the hard way.

Charlie Daniels

Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.