Musician Quotes

It's typical of record companies. They sign you because you're unique, and then they want to put you in a mold so they can sell records.

I've never seen the Osbournes, I've never seen Paris Hilton. I'd rather read than watch reality TV. I'd rather live life than watch somebody else living it.

I'd still prefer to do five nights at a club than one night at Allstate Arena.

Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.

Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life.

You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older.

When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture.

People, of all ages, are far more open than you might think to being moved in new ways.

My goal would be trying to bring some light to the world, which is often a dark and violent place.

It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.

If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.

I think humor is important for all of us, and a great comedian is a great treasure.

I suppose that's why new music and I go well together, because new music often requires maintaining great rhythm.

I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire.

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.

I'd like to be able to tap with my action this low without buzzing.

Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.

Basically, I use hammer-ons and pull-offs.

With my little band, I did everything they did with a big band. I made the blues jump.

The only people who make love all the time are liars.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

Rock on out.

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

You got to get it while you can.

Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.