#musician

But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that's the center of it, that is it. It's almost like there's something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you're a songwriter that sings your material. ↗

— Ben Folds

#almost #any #back #center #go

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

Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song. ↗

— Cassandra Wilson

#everything #how #i #i do #interested

We are not just Art for Michelangelo to carve, he can't rewrite the agro of my furied heart- Lady Gaga 10/22/10 ↗

— Lady Gaga

#music #musician #pop #song-lyrics #art

There's so much excellent new music around that I can't afford to buy it all and I haven't the time to review as much as I'd like. I can't remember a better time to be a musician or to listen to music! ↗

— Malcolm Wilson

#around #better #better time #buy #excellent

The greatest artists express their inner self; an artist paints her rage; a writer pens his fear; a dancer expresses her sadness through movement; and a musician's loneliness echoes in his performance. ↗

— Gerard de Marigny

#artist #artists #artists-life #dancer #musician

I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening. ↗

— John Lennon

#new-york-city #musician

I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because you want to get along with whatever record company you're dealing with. I don't want to be flaky. I don't want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician. ↗

— Frank Black

#because #business #caught #certainly #company

In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal. ↗

— Lee Konitz

#complex #does #just #lester #most

I think having a vision can make someone an influential man. I'm not talking about acting or anything like that, I'm talking about people I admire, whether it's a writer or a musician or a sports figure or a politician, whatever. ↗

— Benicio Del Toro

#acting #admire #anything #figure #having