Musician Quotes

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away and every ounce of energy you try to give away as the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play.

I was lucky enough to see the Beatles play live.

I was born in March 1949, a post war baby boomer.

I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart.

You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it - there's no turning back.

It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter.

If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?

These times are so hard, and they're getting even harder.

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.

My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.