An entrepreneur without funding is a musician without an instrument.
~ Robert A. Rice Jr.
Learn the rules and learn the game, before you start breaking the rules and changing the game. Your education, experience and understanding of what was and what is, will give you the best foundation to change what will be.
~ Loren Weisman
Your uniqueness is your greatest strength, not how well you emulate others.
~ Simon S. Tam
I don't have what it takes to inspire someone to become a worldly musician or rapper! I can't use the power God gave me yesterday to work against the Kingdom God set up many years ago!
~ Israelmore Ayivor
It's about personal development. It's about creating your own character and pushing it to the limit. It's about pushing yourself so far out of your own and everybody else's idea of who you are and what you're capable of, that you no longer believe in limits. It's about reaching beyond your so-called potential, because your potential is never where you or anyone else expects it to be, not even close. It's about being able to say with the last breath of your life “I used all my potential and all my talents and pushed myself to the limit. I could not have fought any harder.
~ Charlotte Eriksson
For I have nothing to lean on, nowhere to call my home and there is nowhere I will go for Christmas to rest my head and touch familiar walls. I have no degree to show on paper or employment to take care of my health or the reassurance that I can pay my rent. And I have no right to complain because this is the road I choose and I built it myself, not really knowing where I wanted it to lead, but I have hope in all things ahead and behind and I am learning to let myself go. Forget my own ego and believe that what I am doing is grander than my very own self.
Sometimes not much is just enough.
~ John O'callaghan
If the music is amazing, you can get away with anything.
~ Brian Logan Dales
Sometimes life gets weird. Hang in there, it gets better.
~ Tanner Patrick
I don’t want a challenge with a woman.” Adrian was getting bothered by his friend’s persistence. “I want one who’s ready and willing. You see how pristine that chick looked? We’re talking completely uncharted territory. She’s probably never had a tongue in her mouth, much less a cock. I ain’t got time for training.
~ Cherie Summers
... Kenny G is extremely talented and resourceful and a powerful force to be reckoned with ... Mr. G might not seem evil, but I fear him more than any other human being.
~ Matthew Quick
Last night I did things my mother told me not to with the people I shouldn't see in the places that I should not go..
~ Nick Santino
Everything I didn’t know I was looking for…it’s there whenever I’m with you. I don’t know what it is that you think I deserve, but I don’t want anything other than what’s right here, right now.
~ Courtney Giardina
Music is the Universal Language that allows all people to communicate with each other.
~ Ellen J. Barrier
You are lucky to feel sadness.
No man sings as beautifully as when his song is accompanied by a woman’s voice.
~ Roman Payne
I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.
~ Brian Eno
And I understood why he didn’t need friends or to be accepted at our shitty racist high school, because he had his music, and that was so much better than anything we had to offer.
Miss, I'd gladly pay you to remove your clothes.
~ David Scheier
Why I write music? Because it hurts not to.
The greatest artists express their inner self, an artist paints her rage, a writer pens his fear, a dancer expresses her sadness through movement, and a musician's loneliness echoes in his performance.
~ Gerard De Marigny
For so long music has been my heart, but now it's you...you're my heart.
~ Cassandra Giovanni
I've loved many women...I'm not going to lie to you, but it never works...vanity always gets in the way.
The only dreams that matter are the ones you have when you're awake.
I applied at Tower Records on Sunset Boulevard after my band broke up. I really wanted to work there because it involved the love of my life, music. It was also located on the world famous Sunset Strip, a place I dreamed of going to ever since I was a teenager in the 80's to become a rock star.
~ K.d. Sanders
I had enough of a story churning in my head that combined all the elements of the day—the interview, the concert, the after-party’s private session—when he put his guitar away and asked me if I had ever experimented with homosexuality. Talk about unexpected segues. Letting him know that I had not and wasn’t about to, I successfully changed the subject by asking him to give me a condensed account about traveling to Mississippi in search of Bukka White.
~ Kenny Weissberg
There were no sparks, just a gasoline fire burning through the dark
~ Sukh Dev
Is the phrase 'pay' or 'play the piper'I inquire, why'Cause I admire a desire to flip the switchYeah make a way to face the music likeLife savings for a mosh pit riotListen to a mixRock the tickets, higher volumeVelocity which shakes a cockpit's pilot
~ Criss Jami
I didn't do music to live, I lived so that I could do music.
I had a dream about you. You were a stranger playing a gig in this pub where I was waitressing. I felt like I knew you or needed to, so I asked you to have a few drinks with me. Then my alarm went off. I sat up in bed to see you still sleeping. I’m glad I decided to wear a kilt that summer while I was in school.
~ Crystal Woods
Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.
~ Fiona Apple
I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.
~ Richard Strauss
Nobody needs saving, just a little bit of empathy
I am more than what they say I am.
They've got organizations for people like me with stupid preoccupations.
~ Vic Chesnutt
I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.
~ John Lennon
The musician and the listener.If this is love between two strangers watching each other from afar, that rough, burning moment when you rush in and kiss is the show.
~ Tablo
You can take and nail two sticks together like they've never been nailed together before and some fool will buy it.
~ George Carlin
We're all weird.
I don't give a fuck, God sent me to piss the world off.
~ Eminem
