Musician Quotes

You never know where a blessing can come from.
I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.
Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.
We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a guitar, vibes and a piano.
When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material.
You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not.
Artists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music.
I think I've grown a lot in the last few years, and I needed to express myself as an artist on this. It wasn't necessarily about going in and making an album chocked full of hit singles... there were a lot of things I did out of the joy and the want to do it.
That's a song about reaching deep inside yourself where you can completely be who you are.
The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what's safe and comfortable.
About the only other thing I'd want would be a wider neck. My fingers are so fat that sometimes I deaden the string next to the one I'm fretting.
After The Ventures I dug Johnny Smith quite a bit.
But then there was Hendrix, man. Jimi was really the last cat to freak me. Jimi was playing all the stuff I had in my head. I couldn't believe it, when I first heard him. Man, no one can ever do what he did with a guitar. No one can ever take his place.
I just get all jacked up when we start cooking.
I'm too busy playing to worry about the movement or the fingerboard.
Sometimes I'll be playing along and find I'm missing the strings. I'll worry about it for days until I notice that the pick has worn down to half its size.
This guy kept telling us that rock was the big thing, everyone's talking about the big thing, our band was the big thing. So he made us change our name to The Big Thing. Can you believe that?!
Well, first I'd want a better vibrato.
All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.
Be-bop wasn't developed in any deliberate way.
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