(426 quotes found)
“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
“The musicians today who don't do drugs and in fact speak out against it? "Rock Against Drugs?" BOY do they suck.”
Bill Hicks
“It's a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions are a lot more fun than cash, which by the way we don't have at major labels anyway, so we might as well get with it and get in the game.”
Courtney Love
“My son does not appreciate classical musicians such as the Stones; he is more into bands with names like "Heave" and "Squatting Turnips."”
Dave Barry
“Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.”
Louis Armstrong
“Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.”
Harry Chapin
“I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.”
Freddie Mercury
“The wise musicians are those who play what they can master”
Duke Ellington
“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
