“I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.”
Freddie Mercury
“If some musicians put more energy into their own craft, they'd be less likely to attack the artist they have a problem with 'not being'”
Larss Vincent McKevitt
“Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Musicians! Nothing is new under the sun. We are all extensions and reflections of our personal musical influences & upbringing.”
Marcos Curiel
“Musicians own music because music owns them.”
Virgil Thomson
“A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.”
Leopold Stokowski
“Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.”
Louis Armstrong