March 15, 2023: Quotes from Musicians
Fire up your favorite music playlist and check out these informative quotes from creative and influential musicians.
“Collaborating with a musician is like a conversation: each experience is unique to that person.” —Pharrell Williams
“People who are pushed toward the arts are sometimes flying a little too close to the sun.” —Michael Stipe
“First you create this universe with sound, then it becomes real and you move into it.” —Bjork
“There are two things John and I always do when we’re going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.” —Paul McCartney
“I think that Elvis was more acceptable being white back in that period. I believe that if Elvis had been Black, he wouldn’t have been as big as he was. If I was white, do you know how huge I’d be? If I was white, I’d be able to sit on top of the White House!” —Little Richard
“I like making new songs and I like playing them live — not tons of them, because you have to slowly incorporate new material since you have an obligation to play the songs that people love, because that’s what they come for.” —Rob Zombie
“I believe great art is discovered when you are consistent, a hard worker, and combine that with vision – your gift finds its home at some point.” —Beyonce
“In the last 10 years I’ve really learned to get out of my way creatively, because I used to go to those terrible songwriting sessions and sit bumcheeks clenched as I tried to write a song. Now I just write what I feel.” —Boy George
“I guess that was part of why I stepped back from consuming the internet in a really consistent way – I wanted to know what I would make when I wasn’t dialed into what everyone else was making.” —Lorde
“Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.” —Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“I know that when I am in the audience, whether you come out with a ukulele or a marching band, all I ask you give me everything you’ve got to give. That’s what I did for the last 50 years.” —David Lee Roth
“The most dangerous thing is improvising with a band and thinking, ‘Okay, now’s the time to play that diminished scale,’ and somebody in the band is thinking, ‘Now’s the time to play a major chord.’ Those kinds of accidents do happen.” —Frank Zappa
“When I put my hand on the piano, what you hear, what people hear, what I’ve done in my life is my honest music — it’s not me trying to be anybody.” —David Foster
“Music is not just a virtuosity competition.” —John Legend
“When I’m inspired, I get excited because I can’t wait to see what I’ll come up with next.” —Dolly Parton
“I despise a world which does not feel that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.” —Ludwig van Beethoven
“I’ve wondered all my working life why people don’t retire in showbusiness, and it’s fairly simple. There’s nobody applauding at home, so we keep going.” —Randy Newman
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