Musician Quotes

If you take your fear and mash it into something that's actually useful, then it doesn't feel like it wins.

I'm writing about emotions.

I'm of the ilk of writers that feels you have to be open to the inspiration.

I'm never gonna be somebody who's gonna fall down from the sky on a trapeze. That's not me. I really want to make sure that my focus stays on connecting with the audience.

I'm grateful to have the chance to be inspired by the incredible artists that are out there.

I'm a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound.

I would never intentionally want to hurt someone's feelings.

I would like to look back on my body of work and be proud of each record in its own right, but as a whole, I want to continue to grow and move forward.

I was a fat girl growing up and had to change schools because kids were so mean.

I used to sing songs from musicals all the time as a kid.

I think I have some anger-management issues, and they end up coming out in these passive-aggressive songs that sound happy.

I never played coffee shops; I just played a lot of coffee shop-sized venues. I took every venue I could get my hands on.

I have been very fortunate to be a part of tours with other artists that have exposed me to new places that I've never been before. Once you discover something beautiful, you just want to keep coming back.

I have been influenced by many different artists at many different stages of my life. Starting out, it was people like Elton John, Billy Joel, Ben Folds, and Fiona Apple. As I got older I got deeper into the work of bands like the Beatles, artists like Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, Etta James, and Joni Mi

I feel like my songs are like diary entries for me. So I usually write about things that have happened to me specifically or sometimes it can be someone who's close to me.

Money never prevented anyone from being happy or unhappy.

Do you know why conductors live so long? Because we perspire so much.

We play happy music, and we make people happy. That's why they like us.

Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too much.

Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz.

A frisky spirit makes my trombone sing.

In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.

There's not a moment on it that will sound too familiar, as soon as it sounds comfortably familiar then we like to do something with it to take away that comfortable feeling.

I've wanted to do it for years, but every attempt at it has turned into another tune. We have actually taken a different approach, we're doing a lot of sampling - we're even sampling bits of Flash!

I've had lots of replies, we're into the double figures now. And the overall standard is very good. In fact I've been feeling a little guilty, because I haven't replied to anyone yet - it is something I will be doing.

I'm not altogether sure what I'm going to do for that. I think it will be a lot more low key than the other two I've done. Dare I say it, a bit more relaxing.

You know, I feel that God isn't going to put something in front of me that I can't deal with.

When you get money you're always a target because there's always somebody who needs money out there.

We got extremely lucky. It's a tough business to work with.

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.