Quotes About Famous Musicians

#1. Go find very early versions of things: the first TV pilot of a later-successful TV show; early audition tapes by famous actors; early demos by famous musicians. Focus on these early examples, not what they became over the next 20 years. Remember that what you're doing will constantly improve.

Derek Sivers

#2. I think there are just a million interviews in anthologies with famous musicians that are about the music, and they're really boring to read.

Neil Strauss

#3. Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.

Malcolm X

#4. It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?

Eddie Van Halen

#5. Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard.

James M. Barrie

#6. My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances; we've become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.

Alexander McCall Smith

#7. Blood of my blood, bone of my bone ... ' " "I give ye my body, that we may be one,

Diana Gabaldon

#8. The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play.

Max Beerbohm

#9. The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.

Albert Camus

#10. Things are never absolute; they depend on each individual's perceptions.

Paulo Coelho

#11. All those happy, pretty, successful people- he hated them because he knew they didn't really exist, and he hated even more the magazine that glorified them and in a way that made them exist, actors, rock musicians, famous writers, politicians. Those aren't people, he fumed, they're photographs.

Russell Banks

#12. You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.

Zakk Wylde

#13. It's playing with the idea of what musicians wear when they play live, especially focusing on the evolution of what a musician wears when they first start their career, when they are young and wild, to how they dress when they become famous and more polished.

Renzo Rosso