#cian

Of course, I would be depressed sometimes, and my Mom would be worried about me because I would just sleep to escape. Cause I was so scared of being a musician or artist, or whatever you want to call it. ↗

— Chantal Kreviazuk

#artist #because #being #call #cause

In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis. ↗

— Robby Krieger

#both #doors #each #effect #know

America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society. ↗

— Peter Kropotkin

#america #come #country #freedom #guarantees

My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician. ↗

— Toots Thielemans

#cradle #each #gestures #had #i

Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden! ↗

— Toots Thielemans

#garden #jazz #jazz musician #musician #rose

I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can. ↗

— Virgil Thomson

#avoid #being #concept #i #learned

There are a lot better musicians than me out there that just haven't had the luck to fall into everything like I have. ↗

— Glenn Tipton

#everything #fall #had #haven #i

I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences. ↗

— Peter Tosh

#consequences #i #i am #only #politician

I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#any #backstage #band #dad #dance

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#dead #government #man #politician #statesman