Musician Quotes

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 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

We will trust you as our leader,
We will trust you as our leader,
No one else could lead like you,
For you know what is best to do.

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

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.

Global warming. Every day I leave my house and think, "was it this hot last year?" The heat this summer here in LA and in most of the US has been unbearable. I can't remember another time when it was 105 degrees Fahrenheit out here (40.5 Celsius), and that's the kind of weather we've been having pretty much every day.

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.

Like a bat out of Hell
I'll be gone when the morning comes.
But when the day is done
And the sun goes down
And the moonlight's shining through
Then like a sinner before the gates of heaven
I'll come crawling on back to you.

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

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.

I was been raised to believe I was an artist. I believed what my parents said and fulfilled it, like a prophecy.

From a distance, there is harmony
And it echoes through the land
It's the voice of hope, it's the voice of peace
It's the voice of every man.

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

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.

The Lennon-McCartney comparison was frequently made and that was an image that critics could relate to. But it wasn't something people in the street could pick up on the way they'll pick up on someone who's really good-looking.

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

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

Serving God - what more beautiful thing is there to do! The only real joy is to be a servant of God, and that means being awake all the time to the needs of the moment.... We cannot have any preconceived ideas of what service means. We never know from one moment to the next, what will be asked of us.

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

We are stronger than we think we are.
We have courage that we do not recognize until we need it.
We are equal to challenges that we haven't even imagined yet

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