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)

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

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

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.

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...

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

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.

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.

I think Phil Collins is one of the most underrated musicians, singers, performers – he is absolutely amazing, I think, and I think he’s probably got a bit of a rough ride occasionally because he...

If some musicians put half as much effort in to the business side as they do their outer look and appearances, they could be twice as far.

If you can’t tell from my rap lyrics already, yes I am a feminist. And when I’m saying “hoe” or “bitch” I am actually referring to men. …That sounded bad, in someway. But at the...

We don’t sell so many records. When I make the album, I pay the musicians.

Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians.

I don’t take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.

We have musicians from as far away as Ontario and Seattle traveling all the way to Greenville to be a part of our first blues festival – this is exciting.

We’re deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can’t hear it.

Not only did I get to play with these great international musicians, but I also had the opportunity to jam with the local celebrities in Toronto, people like the Walsh Brothers, David Wilcox, Kim Mitchell...

Here is to all the brilliant minds that love deeply, for they write the stories that make us dream of true love. Here is to all the visionaries that create a miracle when others give...

So many important New York musicians were gay, one wit dubbed the American Composers League the Homintern.

He’s one of the best musicians in the area.

All of these people kept on being professional musicians and composers in the strictest sense.

The noise around us determines how we speak. And how we listen. Just as a conversation suffers in a war zone, art suffers in a culture built on noise. So does our enjoyment of it.