Quotes About Music

I would say to anyone starting out that if their priority in life is happiness, then don't be a musician.

People thought I disappeared, but I never went away. Music has always been a priority.

To continue to grow as a group and create music, our health should always be the No. 1 priority.

A lot of times, people say, 'You're so much like Loretta or Tammy Wynette.' But I feel kind of like one of the men. I'm like David Allan Coe. I've been to prison, man!

It was hard to play the drums at all when I got out of prison.

Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.

I had no idea what those cords were in the bridge of 'Prisoner In Disguise' when I wrote them. I had to go over to Don Gorman, the piano player, and ask what in the world I was playing.

I not only play at the prestigious classical concert halls like Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center, but also hospitals, churches, prisons, and restricted facilities for leprosy patients, just to mention a few.

I did classical music when I was a teenager, but the experience of performing a classical concert felt too frighteningly pristine for me to continue with it.

Music forced into the air you breathe is an invasion of privacy!

I wanted to be able to play music, and then when I went out in my private life, my personal life, I didn't want to be famous.

It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical. But it's what everyone wants - to get everyone's attention, to have your music make a living for you, to be validated in that way.

I always did music privately as a hobby, I think partly because I was nervous to do it in front of other people.

It is an honour and a privilege to play music for a living, and I don't take it for granted, not even for a second.

Looking back, we had the hard time, but the privilege, of actually coming up playing biker bars and little bitty college bars.

I play music for people all over the world. It's a huge privilege.

It's a great privilege and a highlight for choir and orchestra members to perform for audiences in live concerts.

We all know we're conditioned from music and television, so for us, we take great privilege in being role models, and having an impressionable audience its important for us to make sure what we're doing is in line with them.

'Game of Thrones' is one of the most groundbreaking series on TV. The fact that I get to make music every day is such a privilege, and I'm incredibly grateful to be doing so with an amazing show such as this.

It's a privilege to be from England and be able to come over to America and have people listening to music and really enjoying it.

My band and I sometimes can't believe where we are in the world and what we're doing. But I'm very privileged to be in this position.

I was privileged to know the late, great Miss Etta James, and I did get a chance to spend some time with her and hang out with her.

I am privileged to be at the right end of violins: not the end holding it but to listen to it.

A movie like Mercury' is a once in a generation opportunity for me. It doesn't come easily to a music director and I am privileged to have gotten this opportunity.