Musician Quotes

“When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.”
― Fiona Apple

“My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else?" they asked me the other day.

I told them this story:
In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, "Look at me...I'm tall, and I'm straight, and I'm handsome. Look at you...you're all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you." And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, "Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest." So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day.”
― Tom Waits

“When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true”
― Michael Jackson

“I started to be really proud of the fact I was gay even though I wasn't”
― Kurt Cobain

“A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.”
― Tom Waits

“You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the world will read you like the poem you want to be.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

“Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.”
― Fiona Apple

“Create with the heart; build with the mind.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“I thought that if I owned nothing, had nothing, was nothing, I would have nothing left to lose, and I wouldn't be scared anymore. Because my whole life I’ve been so damn scared. Scared to live because I was scared to die. But at the same I was so scared of living, so I wanted to die. Or maybe so scared of dying that I refused to live. You don't have to be afraid to fall, when you're already on the ground. You don't have to be scared to lose someone, when there's no one around to lose.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps

“You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.”
― Billie Joe Armstrong

“To do something that you feel in your heart that's great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that's successful is a series of mistakes.”
― Billie Joe Armstrong

“Drawing and Drinking Coffe”
― Gerard Way

“We are not just Art for Michelangelo to carve, he can't rewrite the agro of my furied heart- Lady Gaga 10/22/10”
― Lady Gaga

“My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you.”
― Kurt Cobain

“‎The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore.”
― Billie Joe Armstrong

“I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“A guy walks up to me and asks, "What's Punk?". So I kick over a garbage can and say. "That's punk!". So he kicks over the garbage can and says, "That's Punk?", and I say, "No that's trendy!”
― Billie Joe Armstrong

“I don't want to give advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.”
― Fiona Apple

“Music is the soundtrack to every good and bad time we will ever have.”
― Alex Gaskarth

“When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.”
― freddie mercury

“If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.”
― Fiona Apple

“Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.”
― Billie Joe Armstrong

“[novan]: bassists are very good with their fingers
[novan]: and some of us sing backup vocals, so that means we're good with our mouths too...

(~ IM chat with Novan Chang, 18, bassist)”
― Jess C Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel

“Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.”
― Fiona Apple

“I was so self-critical. I still am; but it's not as bad anymore.”
― Fiona Apple

“I love you all; I love you more than life itself, but you're all fucking mad.”
― Ozzy Osbourne

“I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock and roll.”
― Joan Jett

“I mean, reality sucks. The world is a cancer, and shits so bad it’s scary. Everything’s filthy. But you know what? One day, it’s not going to be here. So be glad you know what life is. You’re alive. Live.”
― Mitch Lucker

“An entrepreneur without funding is a musician without an instrument.”
― Robert A. Rice Jr.