Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jon Landau

To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours.

Nicholas Sparks

Unless you had a popular video on YouTube or could perform shows in front of thousands, musical ability meant nothing.

Shinichi Suzuki

I have come to the definite conclusion that musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed.

Rudolf Carnap

Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.

Mary Timony

I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities.

Wayne Shorter

If all you have is music, then you don't have music

Milarepa

If you are a musician, in my opinion there is no greater experience than to play for one's master. It is the highest calling.

James Cook

Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.

Juliana Hatfield

I wanted to be a writer since I was a little girl - long before I was a musician and a songwriter.

Kenneth Rexroth

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

K'naan

I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.

Miroslav Vitous

I am a Slavic musician and it is deeply inside of me.

Lita Ford

Don't get me wrong, I've seen some very excellent women musicians.

Patrick Rothfuss

A poet is a musician who can't sing.

Samantha Morton

I can't act without music very well.