#music

Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen. ↗

— Hugh Hopper

#assume #contact #course #gives #happen

But I do think that we approach music, in of itself, with a religious attitude. ↗

— Jon Fishman

#attitude #i #i do #itself #music

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten. ↗

— Henry Flynt

#bored #commercial #commercial success #forgotten #incredible

On Eye of the Zombie, I had so-called studio musicians. ↗

— John Fogerty

#had #i #musicians #so-called #studio

I'm older than I was, and I'm still washed-up, and I haven't changed my music one iota. It's just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you. ↗

— Ben Folds

#being nice #changed #easier #haven #i

My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric. ↗

— Ben Folds

#figure #job #lyric #music #out

Well, I know a guy, he's from far far away He's a songwriter, he got something to say He says, "People in this city are too busy to hang out This town's so spread out, no one would hear you if you shout" Everyone's got a script to sell and someplace else they want to be There's always a lock that would open if you could just find the key" (It Ain't Easy Being Green) ↗

— Shannon McNally

#hollywood #hopes #illusions #los-angeles #movie-industry

As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can I say that my piece will be ready for performance next January when I do not have a recipe for making it happen? ↗

— Lukas Foss

#empty #happen #how #i #i do

I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music. ↗

— Peter Gabriel

#another #artist #every #exclusivity #i

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you. ↗

— Stan Getz

#listen #musicians #play #read #records