Life is as sad as a glass of grenadine.’ … It’s almost that. It is sad. But, at the same time, how a glass of grenadine sparkles!

Musicians have always had a better understanding of love than the rest of us. Over the years they have told us that love: is like a rock, is here to stay, is all you need,...

Deep within I’m shaken by the violence of existing for only you…

Musicians are artists, as silence is their canvas.

When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the...

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that’s never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.

A Cat Stevens record isn’t just Cat Stevens’ ideas. It’s Cat Stevens and all the musicians who play with Cat Stevens, right?

Sensitive people care when the world doesn’t because we understand waiting to be rescued and no one shows up. We have rescued ourselves, so many times that we have become self taught in the art...

Some people read books on musicians, while I read music books. Not books on music, but literally books full of sheet music. Fascinating reading.

Orpheus never liked words. He had his music. He would get a funny look on his face and I would say what are you thinking about and he would always be thinking about music.

We never really had collaborated [with outside musicians] before Howard left. It’s been great, ever since Jeff joined. But I think there was a slight sense if we record as just the four of us,...

Musicians know how special he was. There was never anyone else like him.

There is no pit orchestra. The musicians are essentially characters in the show. That was a big idea from Des. And it set a structure within which we were able to write the show.

He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology...

I think ‘The Sunset Tree’ is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.

It’s hard to find five musicians who know what the other is going to do before they do it. And that’s what we had in GN’R.

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master

Dave walked closer to me, his dark eyes combing my every move. “Do you always hold your guitar like that?”I dropped my pick. “Do you always shop at Hot Topic?

These were products that were going out and replacing sales of the legitimate product made by the musicians.

I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.

But sometimes, talent isn’t worth shit. There are tons of talentless people out there making zillions of dollars. And unfortunately, an equal number of brilliant artists whose name and voices you’ll never hear. – Paul...

Nashville has always been competitive. My granddaddy called it the Hillbilly Babylon.

I hate how things must be classified. How this is applied to musicians implies that they somehow contrive their products and have studied the demographics of the audience.

The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.

Everything is music for the born musician.

You’re too damn beautiful for your own good.Hell,you’re too damn beautiful for my own good

David is one of the most talented musicians ever, and he’s never gotten his due. That cat is an amazing guitar player.

Being from Israel and a Jew is complex already, but with France, there is a freedom and a mix of culture. I have met musicians from all over the world.

For someone so conflicted, who am I to give advice to anybody? It’s such a funny, grandiose idea

But wouldn’t [the Spice Girls] have shown a little bit more solidarity if they had at least called themselves feminists? The feminist activist Jennifer Pozner was more dismissive,writing that it was “probably a fair assumption...

As a musician, I have a deep respect and appreciation for the gift of hearing and the beauty that it brings to life, … Having been on an international hearing mission trip with the Starkey...

I do not play to musicians. I play to the people.

Musicians burn through more cash than the Federal Reserve.

They all believed in him because of the authenticity of his musical talent and his faith in it.

I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Collaborative workshops and writers’ peer groups hadn’t been invented when I was young. They’re a wonderful invention. They put the writer into a community of people all working at the same art, the kind of...

What gives him the right to do that? … I ask myself if musicians should conduct themselves like politicians. They are only musicians. Where do they get the right to talk like that?

Where’s your will to be weird?

The Musicians Hall of Fame is chosen by thousands of your peers. So it’s the real thing.

Zeena Schreck is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist, author, musician/composer, tantric teacher, mystic, animal rights activist, and counter-culture icon known by her mononymous artist name, ZEENA. Her work stems from her experience within the esoteric, shamanistic...

Now, as I understand it, the bards were feared. They were respected, but more than that they were feared. If you were just some magician, if you’d pissed off some witch, then what’s she gonna...

Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general.

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...

Music is exciting and easy to enjoy, the rhythm and voice.It does not need interpretation. That is why it is called the Universal Language.

Most musicians I know cannot open up.

They are both such good singers and musicians. It will be a real treat to have them back.

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don’t abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.”(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)

Artist paint images unseen, musicians create sounds that emerge from silence, and authors write from a synthetic point of view about a world that can never exist.

I don’t perform. Seals perform.

if music was the language of the world, imagine how beautiful a seven-billion-part harmony would be.