Musician Quotes

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.
What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.
When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion.
When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.
When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice.
As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely.
Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.
I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.
I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight.
I've been overweight all my life.
My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.
Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.
Our criteria for deciding what's good and what's bad is very fickle, especially in this country.
Remember: Always walk in the light. And if you feel like you're not walking in it, go find it. Love the light.
So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.
That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.
As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness.
Everyone's looking to the urban scene for inspiration now.
I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got somebody in the world. I'm more fearful than I used to be.
I find it very, very hard. He was part of the fabric of my life. We were kids together, and teenagers. We spent the whole of our lives with each other because of our music.
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