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.

I think her favorite thing about our . . . collaboration was her actor and musician friends rubbing shoulders with my academic colleagues, she liked the atmosphere of challenge, the way anything that came under...

The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers – just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians – by right of birth. Nothing is more natural, therefore, than to perceive them...

I’m not as enamored with actors as I am with musicians, especially like these guys, … These are some of my heroes, and to be in the same room listening to them play or to...

It’s a very important hall. All the great musicians of the first half of the century have played there. You knew you had arrived when you had done that.

I’ve never been in a band, but I’ve hung out with a lot of musicians and helped them with their shows. It’s something that I’m really drawn to.

Musicians don’t retire; they stop when there’s no more music in them.

It wouldn’t be unusual for dad to call on Jim and Steve to play if his regular musicians couldn’t show.

Sometimes I wish Jim Morrison were still alive, because I’d love to see a concert in which “The Doors” opened up for “The Cars.

I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I’m workin’ and they’re not.