A Quote by Keith Richards

To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.

Keith Richards

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Keith Richards
English - Musician
Born: December 18, 1943

A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.

Keith Richards

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

Rodney Atkins

I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwriter. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want.

Justin Townes Earle

It is raining and you can hear the pattern of the drops. You can hear it with your ears, or you can hear it out of that deep silence. If you hear it with complete silence of the mind, then the beauty of it is such that cannot be put into words or onto canvas, because that beauty is something beyond self-expression .

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life. You do it because there's an element of alienation in your life.

James Taylor

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.

Bono

The one mentality I've always tried to have is that no matter what stage in your career that you are in as a musician or a performer or a songwriter or whatever, there's always more to learn.

Nick Jonas

Chase used to say, 'When you're looking at your canvas and worrying about it, try to think of your canvas as the reality and the model as the painted thing.'

Charles Webster Hawthorne

I'm a great songwriter, but I'm not the most talented musician.

Noel Gallagher

I've grown in a lot of ways - as a musician, as performer, as a songwriter.

Lights

My father was a cocky, long-haired musician, a songwriter.

Joe Calzaghe

I'm a songwriter, an artist, and a musician. I do not have to try to be that; I just am.

Linda Perry

You need to understand that a skilled professional songwriter can accelerate your success as an already talented musician. These people are writing every single day, so their craft is really sharp, and it's the best songwriters who consistently get on the radio.

Kara DioGuardi

Bono

As a musician and a songwriter it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

Bono

Music is the application of sounds to the canvas of silence.

Carl Jung

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