“The musicians today who don't do drugs and in fact speak out against it? "Rock Against Drugs?" BOY do they suck.”
Bill Hicks
“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 today have gotten used to Protools, which I hate. You can go into the studio and not even be a musician, just start beating on stuff and they can take parts out of it, move it around and then you can sound like Slash. If you want some kind of weird feedback effect in the middle of a guitar solo, now they can just fly it in. You don't have to sit there and work at it like you did back in the day.”
Mick Mars
“The trouble with most musicians today is that they are copycats. Of course you have to start out playing like someone else. You have a model, or a teacher, and you learn all that he can show you. But then you start playing for yourself. Show them that you're an individual. And I can count those who are doing that today on the fingers of one hand.”
Lester Young
“Our goal is to have top- notch performers with top- notch music, not here-today- gone-tomorrow musicians. How long can we take the repetition of what's popular right now? What makes great music possible is the songs.”
Charlie Tucker
“It's very exciting. To me, he's someone who is a big-name musician that can bring other musicians along.”
Chris Kelley
“Musicians own music because music owns them.”
Virgil Thomson
