Quotes of: Zappa Keyword

There's art in rhythm playing. Just find it. Make your own art. Find your place, and when it's your time to solo, it's your time to shine.

Ricky Skaggs

There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music.

Miroslav Vitous

Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've been writing.

Peter Hook

There's a very fine line between being artistic and being a dickhead - it's like love and hate.

Peter Hook

I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.

Stan Getz

I'm in a rock band - I don't have a day job! I am spoiled... a lot.

Stone Gossard

Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country.

Kevin Eubanks

I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing.

Laura Mvula

It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.

Laura Mvula

My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

Laura Mvula

I can't judge my own stuff. That's for others. But those are the three things that I admire.

Mose Allison

I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend.

Miroslav Vitous

I took it very seriously and got very far with it. I was pretty much on a high level when I arrived.

Miroslav Vitous

Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open.

Miroslav Vitous

You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?

Charlie Watts

I never had lessons. Used to try to play to records, which I hated doing. Still can't play to them.

Charlie Watts

I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.

Michael Franti

I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music.

Kevin Eubanks

What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the same - regular people doing their thing and separating the music from the business.

Ed O'Brien

I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.

Peter Hook

They use all of the music that I did in the '50s, '60s and the '70s behind people like Tupac and LL Cool J. I'm into all that stuff.

Donald Byrd