Musician Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Francis Grierson

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.

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

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

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.

You're a shining star
No matter who you are
Shining bright to see
What you can truly be.

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

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

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

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.

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

We're all going on a summer holiday,
No more worries for a week or two.

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

The artist is like a secretary, whether he is a writer, a musician or a painter: He keeps records of his time.

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.

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

This next song is called 'Wolf Moon' [crowd starts to cheer]. Wait with cheering until you hear what the song's about. It's about a guy who turns into a werewolf when he engages in oral sex with a menstruating woman [crowd cheers even louder, and Steele spreads out his arms]. You wanna call me a pussy? You are what you eat.