#musician

My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else?" they asked me the other day. I told them this story: In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, "Look at me...I'm tall, and I'm straight, and I'm handsome. Look at you...you're all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you." And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, "Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest." So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day. ↗

— Tom Waits

#individuality #music #musician #non-conformity #humor

Bathe in your riches and friends, I'll stay here with my songbooks and pens. ↗

— Andy Biersack

#musician

My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#musician

You can't learn to fly if you're not prepared to crash ↗

— Joe Brooks

#musician

Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician. ↗

— Andy Richter

#born #brain #jazz #jazz musician #magical

I don't perform. Seals perform. ↗

— Morrissey

#musicians #unusual #musician

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing. ↗

— Travis Barker

#know #lot #musicians #people #punk

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#artist #chords #draw #harmonies #his

The project which we developed, however, was for a sound piece and I was initially curious that a sculptor should be interested in working with a musician, especially on a project for radio. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#developed #especially #however #i #initially

I don't like that, because there are a lot of people whose works I admire as actors or actresses, or musicians. And you know, I've been a big fan of different musicians or actors. ↗

— Laura Bush

#because #been #big #big fan #different