Musician Quotes

“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

“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

“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

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

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

“Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.”
― Kurt Cobain

“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

“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

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

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

“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

“Drawing and Drinking Coffe”
― Gerard Way

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

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

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

“I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and winter came and I fell short for safety. I fell for its spell, slowly humming me to sleep, because I was tired and small, too weak to take or handle those opinions and views, attacking me from every angle. Against my art, against my self, against my very way of living. I collected my thoughts, my few possessions and built isolated walls around my values and character. I protected my own definition of beauty and success like a treasure at the bottom of the sea, for no one saw what I saw, or felt the same as I did, and so I wanted to keep to myself.
You hide to protect yourself.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving

“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

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

“It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with [referring to crystal methamphetamines]”
― Fergie

“You can't make a fan of everyone. Stay true to your story, characters, music, art or whatever it is you do and fuck everyone else who doesn't like it. Life isn't perfect.”
― Ann Marie Frohoff

“All people are musicians" Wit countered. "The question is whether or not they share their songs.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“Be yourself. Don't take anyone's shit and never let them get you alive.”
― Gerard Way

“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

“I have a daughter and she's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. She gives me a good excuse to watch cartoons.”
― Mike Dirnt

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

“When you play music you discover a part of yourself that you never knew existed.”
― Bill Evans

“You can be known as the most beautiful woman
who ever crawled across cut glass to make a deal”
― Bob Dylan