Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brad Paisley

...you think back to Tele players, and James Burton was the one who started it all. He inspired Roy Nichols (guitar for Merle Haggard & the Strangers), Don Rich (guitar for Buck Owens & the Buckaroos), and guys like that to push the envelope and expand on that sound... I really identify with that kind of thinking ... those guys to me are the reason why any of us do this..

Brad Paisley

... Albert Lee and I have become real close friends, and he comes out anytime I'm in the L.A. area, and he'll sit in for the whole show ! ... we've got a habit of doing that ... in Austin Redd Volkaert does the same thing ... it's fun ... I love to make it a guitar thing and the audience doesn't know any different - they think he's some new band member they don't know. They don't realize Albert's the reason we all play Teles ! ...

Brad Paisley

... when Ray Flacke came out, it was like 'What in the heck is this?' ... there's a guy who had that Tele players attitude, and he plugged straight into that amp with a delay, and it was unbelievable the way he would bend those big strings ... he was really unique...

Brad Paisley

... there are a lot of shredders in country music - Redd Volkaert, Brent Mason, Dan Huff .. and guys like that

Brad Paisley

.. Playing live is about going for it .. it's about bringing it ... you should see a bunch of people trying out stuff, actually performing, instead of learning the record and recreating it note for note. I can't play the show the same way every night .. I really need to be in a creative environment, every night or I'll go nuts ... my manager accuses me of singing just long enough to get me to my next guitar solo - which is true...

Boz Scaggs

I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.

Jamie Campbell Bower

I've been a musician longer than I've been an actor.

James Whistler

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

James Weldon Johnson

At a very early age I began to thump on the piano alone, and it was not long before I was able to pick out a few tunes? I also learned the names of the notes in both clefs, but I preferred not be hampered by notes.

James Weldon Johnson

O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?

James Weldon Johnson

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Kendrick Lamar

I'm putting out this free music, constantly putting it out.

Kate Bush

I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my own music, some arrangement or something. I spend so much time listening that the way I relax is by watching things, a comedy; that's my way to wind down.

Kate Bush

Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.

Gene Simmons

Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn't.

Bryan Batt

It's funny... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

this song is for the guy who keeps yelling from the balcony, and it's called 'we hate you, please die.

Bryan Procter

Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn, Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute, Are half so sweet as tender human words.

Casey Abrams

I have musical ADD, so I like to switch things up.

Carl Jung

Music is the application of sounds to the canvas of silence.

Carl Jung

A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.

John Otto

We've got many different sides of music to us.

Billy Sheehan

Very often I suspend my musical sensibilities to enjoy music as a fan.

Billy Sheehan

Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.

Billy Strayhorn

All music is beautiful.

Bertrand Russell

You could live without the opera singer, but not without the services of the baker. On this ground you might say that the baker performs a greater service; but no lover of music would agree.

Chad Smith

I'm a musician. It's what I do! I wouldn't be too good at anything else.

Cecilia Bartoli

The joy is actually in the music. It's the music that supports you and tells you what to do. It tells you how to fill the music. You don't have to be shy about feeling the music when you're singing. If you believe in music-the power of music-the music will support you and take you to another dimension.

Cassandra Wilson

I'm always looking for ways to develop as a Jazz artist, to find different ways of using my voice.

Cassandra Wilson

I cringed when I heard myself described as a Jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a Jazz vocalist.

Cassandra Wilson

I was never interested in singing in the church or school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.

Cassandra Wilson

Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.

Charlie Hunter

Yeah, it's more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment, not forcing any particular style.