Quotes About Music

Very early, I thought I would go into music, but I was aware that it would bring a set of obstacles I didn't find particularly attractive. Also, I'm not a great performer! For a while, I thought I would do something in landscape gardening. But it was always fashion for me.

I always knew I wanted to be a performer. I started playing when I was in third grade, but I wasn't very good at all.

I'm a fan of Rihanna. I have all her albums. I love her music; she's a great performer. We've both gone on to great things. It's all love.

I'm a performer. I do comedy and music, and I blend them together. My band is 'Nasty Delicious!'.

I've learned how to be a better performer on stage and interact with the fans, make it feel like a collective experience more than just me singing songs on a stage and feeling really detached.

Early on, I was a performer playing classical music. It's in my DNA in a way that I can't begin to extract it.

I'm a jazz performer - I have to improvise with what I'm given.

When I was a street performer, before I had any songs of my own that anybody would stop and put in money for, I would always be doing covers. Even with covers, people wouldn't stop in the beginning.

Usher is so innovative - he's a great performer, a great entertainer.

I love Rihanna's style. It's a good mix of streetwear and show wear, and I love her music, too. She's an incredible singer and performer.

Before I start, I create a set list that I listen to while I'm writing. For 'Intimate Apparel,' I loaded Erik Satie, Scott Joplin, klezmer music, and the American jazz performer and composer Reginald Robinson.

Because Slash is such a well-known performer all over the world, it definitely helped with the awareness of Alter Bridge. People come up to me and say that they saw me playing with Slash, and it turned them on to the other things I do.

As a drag performer, my identity exists in music, art, and fashion, not in any one 'language' of gender or 'appearance.'

I grew up listening to cabaret. At 7 and 8 years old, I was already singing like a club performer.

There are lots of reasons people come to Beyonce shows. There's the music, her dancing; all in all a bedazzling show. She's a great performer and singer.

When you talk about the exchange of energy between performer and audience and audience and performer, I hope that I'm one of the best.

This was the rule that I had when we made 'Frampton Comes Alive!': being known as a live performer, I'm not going to go into the studio and overdub.

You don't need to be a performer in order to dive into the sensory experience of music. Simply get as close as you can to the source of the music.

I have a crazy background in music, both as a performer and writer.

It's hard for a country performer to make a living in a Beatles society.

My experience of being a singer and performer is there is something meditative and very positive about singing, just resonating the inside of your body.

Improvising is writing, too - there was no music and now there's music. So that's composition. And any time you take any sort of a performance liberty, you're making a compositional choice. I don't know a serious performer who hasn't made compositional decisions, who hasn't engaged in the art of composition.

I definitely always wanted to be a singer and a performer. I think I got it from my parents because my dad's a singer and my mom's a singer, so it kind of runs in the family and I just thought it was normal.

I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now.