Controversy is a last resort for the talentless.

When they say the sky’s the limit to me that’s really true

When you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you’re by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don’t feel like you can trust anyone or talk...

In elementary school, in my lunchbox, I used to pack a saxophone. I could have been a chef, a culinary artist, and all that jazz.

I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life’s end.

I used all my potential and all my talents and pushed myself to the limit. I could not have fought any harder.

There is nothing as beautiful as a crooked streetlight or a ripped paper.There lies no beauty in being what someone designed you to be.

I am a musician, but I’m another type of musician.

All people are musicians” Wit countered. “The question is whether or not they share their songs.

Is the phrase ‘pay’ or ‘play the piper’I inquire, why’Cause I admire a desire to flip the switchYeah make a way to face the music likeLife savings for a mosh pit riotListen to a mixRock...

I started to be really proud of the fact I was gay even though I wasn’t

Sometimes life gets weird. Hang in there, it gets better.

I was so self-critical. I still am; but it’s not as bad anymore.

If my name were Nubby Blues, I wouldn’t be a jazz musician, I’d be a disabled Vietnam vet on welfare.

That was when they noticed that every musician on the stage was wearing mourning black. That was when they shut up. And when the conductor raised his arms, it was not a symphony that filled...

You can’t make a fan of everyone. Stay true to your story, characters, music, art or whatever it is you do and fuck everyone else who doesn’t like it. Life isn’t perfect.

Life when one first arrives is a continual mortification as one’s romantic illusions are successively shattered and the musical treasure-house of one’s imagination crumbles before the hopelessness of the reality. Every day fresh experiences bring...

Who is the most worthy of admiration, musician or audience?Probably the musician will tell that his audience and the musician that his audience

I’d rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.

I like the smell of my Grandma’s soap – I used to sit in the bath and eat it.

Music Doesn’t Need Interpreters and Translators

You know, I discovered something. Everyone has something… Something deep inside their hearts. For some, it might have been enmity. For others, admiration. Wishes, a craving for the spotlight, feelings that one wants to deliver,...

They’ve got organizations for people like me with stupid preoccupations.

The greatest artists express their inner self; an artist paints her rage; a writer pens his fear; a dancer expresses her sadness through movement; and a musician’s loneliness echoes in his performance.

I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill it, this instrument, with the breath of life, his own. He has to...

I had enough of a story churning in my head that combined all the elements of the day—the interview, the concert, the after-party’s private session—when he put his guitar away and asked me if I...

I’m kind of an evangelical atheist.

I didn’t do music to live; I lived so that I could do music.

As a comedian, you’re kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit.

The musician and the listener.If this is love between two strangers watching each other from afar, that rough, burning moment when you rush in and kiss is the show.

I get to focus on being a musician sometimes, and I get to focus on being a vocalist sometimes.

I’m quite an eclectic musician.

I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is...

I’ve been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician.

I put the sing in single—especially when I’m in the shower. Does anybody have any requests they’d like to shout out while the water’s getting hot? As always, silence all cell phones during the duration...

only one who obeys can truly command.” When the artist is immersed in a services,giving himself up over and over again, another paradox occurs:He is being seen by all others as a master.

These spider webs are my home now

If I knew what to doI’d do more than write a song for you

Brian came in heavy at that moment on his guitar, the rapid, high-pitched squeal ranging back and forth as his fingers flew along the frets. As the intro’s tempo grew more rapid, Bekka heard Derek’s...

I always see myself as much more of a musician than a celebrity.

Everyone wanted me to be the bad boy, the label wanted it, the publicists wanted it, but I was just trying to be myself.

The ‘Daryl’s House’ thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.

I mean, reality sucks. The world is a cancer, and shits so bad it’s scary. Everything’s filthy. But you know what? One day, it’s not going to be here. So be glad you know what...

I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.

I want to drum up interest for instruments that are played by beating them with sticks.

Your uniqueness is your greatest strength, not how well you emulate others.

And if the day I die they ask me just how heaven was, I’ll be glad I spent it with you.

There are 2 kinds of artists, essentially: those who want to make something popular, and those who want to make something dignified. But then there is still that rare hybrid case, and perhaps by that...

I’d love to play a musician in a film.

Chris was in the rocker, fully clothed, and was strumming idly onCory’s guitar. “Dance, ballerina, dance,” he softly chanted, and hissinging voice wasn’t bad at all. Maybe we could work as musicians—atrio -if Carrie ever...