Musician Quotes

Well, I'm gonna preach you a sermon 'bout Old Man Atom I don't mean the Adam in the Bible datum I don't mean the Adam that Mother Eve mated I mean that thing that science liberated Einstein says he's scared And when Einstein's scared, I'm scared.

I wanna be your happiness.
I wanna be your common sense pain.

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

Oh, man, I didn't have my glasses on and I can't see anything.

Yngwie J. Malmsteen

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 …

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

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

Pauline Oliveros

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.

If you don't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?

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.

When all's said and done, I wish them well. I wasn't just the one that ranted a bit in interviews and thought he was great. I thought the group were great.

To be a catalyst is one of my life's objectives. I've been inspired by many people who in turn have been catalysts. It's very interesting to see the waves of interest come and go in Celtic territory. If I can be a catalyst for other people, that's wonderful.

Loreena McKennitt

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

George had taken off all ten of his fingers and tied them into a bundle with what appeared to be either his own small intestines, or a guitar string; as I walked into the room, he lovingly placed the bundle on his head.

Can't you tell when you're with someone who's listening? She hears you, really hears you. He hears the sadness in your tone or catches your joy. Be a listener, to music, to life, to others, to God. Life is noisy, but there is music in every heartbeat. God is waiting to bring joy and peace to the confusion of our days.

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.

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

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

Whatever you like at age 16, you will find boring at age 32.

Mixmaster Morris

We do not find happiness by being assertive. We don't find happiness by running over people because we see what we want and they are in the way of that happiness so we either abandon them or we smash them. The Scriptures don't teach us to be assertive. The Scriptures teach us—and this is remarkable—the Scriptures teach us to be submissive. This is not a popular idea.

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

Don't know why
There's no sun up in the sky,
Stormy weather
Since my man and I ain't together
It keeps raining all the time.

I think Bitcoin allows artists to be compensated for work in a more fair way.

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.

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