Musician Quotes

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

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.

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

I fell in love with you first time I looked into
Them there eyes.
You've got a certain li'l cute way of flirtin' with
Them there eyes.

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

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

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

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

Well As for now I'm gonna hear the saddest songs
And sit alone and wonder
How you're making out
But as for me, I wish that I was anywhere with anyone
Making out.

I like being on the margins. You work better there.

We skipped the light fandango
And turned cartwheels cross the floor …
And so it was that later
As the miller told his tale
That her face just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale …
One of sixteen vestal virgins
Who were leaving for the coast …

Sweet sixteen today. She's looking like her momma a little more every day.

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.

We are all part of a universal game. Returning to our essence while living in the world is the object of the game. The earth is the game board, and we are the pieces on the board. We move around and around until we remember who we really are, and then we can be taken off the board. At that point, we are no longer the game-piece, but the player; we've won the game.

I was born and raised a Christian and I still adhere to those principles.

And you tell me
Over and over again my friend
That you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

Come holy harlequin!
Shake the world and shock the hypocrite
Rock, love, carry it away, turn it upside down.
Let the feast of love begin,
Let the hungry all come in,
Rock, love, carry it away, turn it upside down.

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.

If I had possession over judgment day
Lord the woman I'm loving
Wouldn't have no right to pray.

In the 1960s, the record companies seemed to sign anything with long hair; if it was a sheepdog, so what.

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

Pauline Oliveros

They say that breaking up is hard to do, now I know, I know that it's true.

It is not quite accurate to say that the objective of art is to represent what happens to us as a consequence of encountering the world. A fuller description of the task would be to say our aim is to discover what happens to us as we consider things.

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

I am not who I would like to be, It's just who I am right now.