In the modern pop-culture tradition, being a musician has often come with a series of default lifestyle expectations, ones of indulgence and recklessness, larger-than-life living, and a diligent pursuit of altered forms of consciousness.
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Sebastian: All right, I remember you. And I'll admit I was a little curt that night. Mia: ‘Curt?’ Sebastian: Okay, I was an asshole. I can admit that. But requesting ‘I Ran’ from a serious musician, it's just, it's too far. Mia: My Lord, did you just say ‘a serious musician?’ Sebastian: I don't thin…
Artists, long-term success is built through lots of small, daily victories. It doesn't happen overnight.
Music never sleeps, but I do cause I’m weak.
The piano is just a part of you, but in that moment it was your universe."
— Naoshi Arakawa, Patrick Seitz, Takao Yoshioka, Kaori Miyazono, Risa Taneda, imdb.com
It's hard to separate art from artists so transgender musicians will never be mainstream until transpeople are looked at as notable as maybe redheads.
I like Christian rock. It's very positive. It's not like those real musicians who think they're so cool and hip.
— Jennifer Crittenden, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com
The musicians play their instruments. I play the orchestra.
At the end of the day, I think my music is good enough to win a Grammy and keep an underground following. I think my music is good. What’s most important to me is that I’m making music that I enjoy listening to.
It’s sometimes physically hard. But then the lights go down, you hear the crowd and you’re all better. You feel like, ‘OK, let’s do it.’
I met John Lennon, and I - you know, we were cutting up and everything at one of the Grammy things. And I said, man, you're a lot of - you're funny. I didn't know you were funny. I said, I thought you were some kind of mad guy or something like that. And he said, me? He said: Listen, people in Engla…
Touring wasn’t just tough for Elvis and I, it’s tough for any couple, whether they are married or not. There are long days, hard days, the planes, the cars… being apart from each other for so long, you just wanted to fill that void with anything, even just conversation.
It’s remarkable that people are still so interested, and I don’t think Elvis himself would believe it. He thought he would be an old-timer at 40 — he always said that to me.
Barbra Streisand has never received due credit for her pioneering role in shattering female convention and laying the groundwork for second-wave feminism. Emerging from bohemian nightclubs where her campy patter and vintage costumes were shaped by gay male sensibility, Streisand embodied a scrappy n…
I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel You were talking so brave and so sweet Giving me head on the unmade bed While the limousines wait in the street. Those were the reasons and that was New York, we were running for the money and the flesh. And that was called love for the workers in song, proba…
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Music is the emotional life of most people.
Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
Music is the strongest form of magic.