#yin

I think a guy who's had just the right amount of booze can sing the blues a hell of a lot better than a guy who is stone sober. ↗

— Charlie Rich

#get #only #playing #you

If you can play guitar and sing, you can probably get a gig down the road playing at a restaurant, but don't throw your life away chasing something that is so elusive it will only lead you to regret and may turn you bitter. ↗

— Cliff Richard

#bitter #chasing #down #down the road #elusive

So I will go as far as I can into rock and roll carrying my Christian banner. ↗

— Cliff Richard

#banner #carrying #christian #far #go

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen. ↗

— Keith Richards

#buttons #comes #death #going #good

When you perform in front of an audience after only two days of rehearsal, you're flying by the seat of your pants - particularly when they're rewriting the show right up to the moment the camera goes on. ↗

— Michael Richards

#audience #camera #days #flying #front

Hey, look at this guy Kenny G. with his thing, walking up and down the aisles of the concert hall and running off the stage and playing the same time. It's old hat! ↗

— Jerome Richardson

#concert #concert hall #down #guy #hall

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates. ↗

— Mordecai Richler

#brief #creates #dying #flicker #frustration

Playing shows and making records keeps been getting easier and more fun. ↗

— Jonathan Richman

#easier #fun #getting #keeps #making

You can learn a lot when you play in a little town in Holland or Western Australia, and you learn different things than you would learn playing a big city. ↗

— Jonathan Richman

#big #big city #city #different #different things

Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap. ↗

— Don Rickles

#building #eddie #elizabeth #elizabeth taylor #empire