Quotes About Music

I wish I played guitar so I could start a band with great musicians.

I couldn't get session work because most musicians hated my style.

Music truly heals, and I am so grateful to have learned that through Musicians on Call.

Great music seems to come from a lot of angst, and that angst is from great musicians getting together with intense chemistry. When that chemistry isn't there, people tend not to write great music.

In the mid-1800s, they were known also as 'singsong houses,' and the courtesans were actually master musicians.

When I'm not working, I don't mix with actors, really. I have about two or three friends from theater school, and we call each other and meet. But in the main, no. I'm more happy with musicians or horse riders or sailors.

In music, the Specials brought a city, Coventry, bombed out for a second time and riven with racism, to a celebration between black and white musicians and their music.

If I wasn't a model, I would never have been around interesting musicians, even had the financial capabilities to say, 'I don't have to work right now. I can sit and make my record.'

Creating sounds together with other musicians is something I've always liked doing.

Both my grandfathers and my mother's brother were musicians.

We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.

I grew up around a lot of church musicians.

For musicians, Musikfest is the most cool event.

I think that dating other musicians can be complicated at times. Especially when they think highly of themselves.

I was very lucky that more experienced musicians allowed me to caterwaul until I figured out what it was really about.

There are incredible musicians around the world.

I was living in New York. Sometimes, our gang of musicians would go to Louis Armstrong's home and play records. It was a lesson, like going to school at night. Ella Fitzgerald was an inspiration, too, a unique artist. When you had an opportunity to be with people like them, you cherished it.

I'm very proud of my band and my musicians.

I have to continue to make the older musicians proud and brush up on my skills.

I would look at older blues musicians who just keep going into their seventies. They keep doing it until they drop dead. And I've always felt like that's what I want to do. I've felt that since the day I was able to start playing music for a living. I don't see the point of thinking about retiring because it's not work to begin with.

Hopefully, I can stay around a lot of young musicians and feed off of them.

I'm big fans of all those musicians, B.B. King, Mick Jagger - they're all on my iPod.

You have gigantic companies feeding off musicians and artists because the artists need the exposure.

I really like the idea of modesty. By the time I got into music, I was already wearing the scarf all the time, and it's really personal to me, my Muslim beliefs, so I decided to keep it and find a way to work around it. I don't see it as a restriction or limitation - I can still be me and get into music and be an entertainer.