The musician who is paid in advance does not play so well.
Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it.
Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.
We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.
My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing.
Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other.
The important thing for any young singer or musician is to keep focused on becoming a better musician as opposed to becoming a bigger celebrity.
A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?
All of the musicians when I was young used to always say you had to tell a story when you're a musician.
He has a method that likens the musician to an athlete, so I do physical exercises designed to keep a musician in shape in order to perform the function, which is to play music.
I once saw two rocks having sex, and I just shook my head because how stupid are those rocks? Don’t they know life only comes from life? Still, I voted for the rock on the left, because we live in a political country where you are free to choose—...
The cradle is rocked but the baby is pinched.
Gifts dissolve rocks.
Having rock-star problems may be the closest I ever get to being an actual rock star.
Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of room for rock musicals, just not all rock musicals.
I certainly didn't want to be in a punk rock band, because I had already been in a punk rock band. I wanted to be in a band that could do anything - like Led Zeppelin.
You can crash on one set of rocks or the other set of rocks, and they crashed on the other set of rocks, which was probably being too little to be commercially viable.
Rock and roll and swing never quite mixed. Rock and roll came in and just blew everything out of the water. Big bands were dead.
It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back to punk for me, because that was the last time, punk rock or grunge rock, was the last time that passion ruled the airwaves.
Actually freestyle really comes from 'Planet Rock'. If you listen to all the freestyle records you'll hear that they are based on 'Planet Rock'. All the Miami Bass records are based upon Planet Rock.
Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded.
