Musician Quotes

Time clocks rob the world of wild possibility. That's what they're for.

Stephanie Mills

But people like to say, Oh, it's in the blood. But art comes from nowhere. It comes from a vague, scary place. It's scary because you don't know when it's coming or if it will ever come again. It's this Other.

Goodnight, Irene, goodnight, Irene,
I'll kiss you in my dreams.

I just kind of thought about doing this my whole life. I never doubted myself once. I've always been singing, and I've always wanted to be on tour with a rock band.

If there is one thing that is constant in this world, it is the power of music.

We are the scatterlings of Africa On a journey to the stars.

I was just sixteen and Visconti and the team took me to a gay nightclub. Almost all the crew were gay. The waiters at the club made me feel very uncomfortable. They looked at me uncompromisingly as if I was a nice meaty dish. I knew I couldn't react. It would have been social suicide. But it was the first of many such encounters.

Björn Andrésen

Now is the time to give me roses, not to keep them for my grave to come. Give them to me while my heart beats, give them today while my heart yearns for jubilee. Now is the time.

You shouldn't hear the guitar by itself. It should be part of the drums so it sounds like the drummer is playing chords — like the snare is in A or the hi-hat in D minor. You only notice the guitar when it's not there.

The bottom line is that the human species has to realize the human body really is just a cheap suitcase.

Genesis P-Orridge

I've played Bach since I was a little girl. I can't let a day go by without playing him. He's so witty and secretive and funny and mathematical and brilliant.

Joanna MacGregor

We had no sooner taken our seats in the railway carriage and the train was beginning to move slowly out of the station when the guard came along the corridor and presented me with my viola! The porter had spotted it, reclining in its case all alone on the platform seat where Lillian and I had been busily engaged in conversation, run along the platform, and thrust it into the hands of the guard through the luggage van window as the train was moving off. Such was my absorption in Lillian that I could even forget the existence of my beloved and precious viola which had meant so much to me for so many years.

Every single living human being who encountered the first ray of light of this new century will pass away this century

I live in a box of paints
I'm frightened by the devil
And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid

I belong to the blank generation I can take it or leave it each time

He had been someone before. That person had been the result of a lifetime of choices, good and bad. And like it or not, he was drawing closer to that identity now. Not the freedom of infinite variety, but the tyranny of a decision made, a path walked, a life lived. What if he didn't like the view

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

Everything they'd been brought up not to do, they could do at a rock-and-roll show.

You can get it if you really want,
But you must try, try and try, try and try.
You Can Get It If You Really Want (1970)
I think the most important thing for you to do in the meantime is live. It is a very involving job,
which takes much concentration and practice.

As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in.

The magic happens only when the artist serves with love and the listener receives with the same spirit.

There is such a thing as poetic science, but no such thing as scientific poetry.

Francis Grierson

I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.

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

Jonathan Goldman

I was lucky enough to write songs that carry a good beat and tell a real story that people could feel was their story, too — something that old people or the kids could both enjoy.

Antoine Fats Domino, Jr.