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...

I’ve loved many women…I’m not going to lie to you, but it never works…vanity always gets in the way.

Miss, I’d gladly pay you to remove your clothes.

Sometimes not much is just enough.

I thought that if I owned nothing, had nothing, was nothing, I would have nothing left to lose, and I wouldn’t be scared anymore. Because my whole life I’ve been so damn scared. Scared to...

As a musician usually music is your way out.

No man sings as beautifully as when his song is accompanied by a woman’s voice.

If the music is amazing, you can get away with anything.

The sound of music, makes me dance.

I guess in this culture of ever-shortening attention spans, it’s good if a song can lift us out of the madness, even if only for a few minutes.

For so long music has been my heart, but now it’s you…you’re my heart.

I’m not trying to save the world. As a musician and artist, it just ain’t me.

…I don’t ever want to feel that way. Feel as if there are no surprises left. The surprises make life worth living. Expecting nothing, accepting it all. Accepting isn’t the right word. ACKNOWLEDGING it all....

You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme,...

I’m a working musician, so it’s what I do. I kind of always have lots of plates spinning, and it’s the ones that keep spinning the longest that I end up doing.

My kids are starting to notice I’m a little different from the other dads. “Why don’t you have a straight job like everyone else?” they asked me the other day. I told them this story:...

The truth is, anyone who puts so much of herself and her life into art as you do must naturally fear any failure in that art as a potential threat to your life. And so...

When there’s music in your soul, there’s soul in your music.

… Kenny G is extremely talented and resourceful and a powerful force to be reckoned with … Mr. G might not seem evil, but I fear him more than any other human being.

My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often...

I’m a producer for fun. I’m not a professional schooled musician or anything.

I suppose I would still be a communicator, maybe a musician.

You are lucky to feel sadness.

This world can be quite wonderful once you let yourself be a part of it. It’s on your side, you know?

I don’t claim to be a musician, I didn’t go to Julliard.