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I don't want to give advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#life #mistakes #musician #life

Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#musician #life

And if the day I die they ask me just how heaven was, I'll be glad I spent it with you. ↗

— Brian Logan Dales

#life #live #love #music #musician

Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

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If everything could ever feel this real forever, if anything could ever be this good again, the only thing I'll ever ask of you, got to promise not to stop when I say when ↗

— Dave Grohl

#foo-fighters #musician #musician

Everything is music for the born musician. ↗

— Romain Rolland

#identity #music #musicians #self-knowledge #music

There is still a future with music, because people still want music. ↗

— MaynardvJames Keenan

#maynard #musician #tool #music

Traditions that cease to evolve render themselves irrelevant or obsolete. And what's the problem with inventing new performance practices? Are customs being slandered? Do successful alternative diminish the value of traditional ones? *The argument that musicians must embrace conventional rituals is just as perilous as unilaterally rejecting them.* ↗

— David Cutler

#music #musicians #performance #performance-practice #traditions

But wouldn't [the Spice Girls] have shown a little bit more solidarity if they had at least called themselves feminists? The feminist activist Jennifer Pozner was more dismissive,writing that it was "probably a fair assumption to say that 'zigazig-ha' is not Spice shorthand for 'subvert the dominant paradigm. ↗

— Marisa Meltzer

#musicians #pop-culture #music

...I don't ever want to feel that way. Feel as if there are no surprises left. The surprises make life worth living. Expecting nothing, accepting it all. Accepting isn't the right word. ACKNOWLEDGING it all. I suppose I'll just try to figure it out as I go or at least try to understand it. Or f***, just think about it. I'll face whatever comes my way... ↗

— John O'Callaghan

#keep-going #life #live #living #love