Musician Quotes

I didn't want to be the girl who posed in 'Playboy' and then - by the way - made some music.

Everyone has to kind of fend for themselves.

Everybody in my band is married, pretty much, and have lives at home, and I don't want them to be away from their families so long that they just start to feel psychotic. You have to go home and stand around in your bathrobe doing your dishes to feel like a normal person sometimes.

Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.

All I want to do is sing on other people's records.

I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

To retire is to die.

The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.

The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.

Music will save the world.

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

To retire is to begin to die.

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

You must work - we must all work to make the world worthy of its children.

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

There are so many little places I want to play, sometimes weird places I think would be fun to play... a bar that's half full.

That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.

No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.

It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.

If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio, I don't think the second option is some big sellout.

I think I used to do everything and then people had a problem with that within the band, so we're doing more of a communal thing.