Top 1200 Female Musicians Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Kansas City Lightning succeeds as few biographies of jazz musicians have. . . This book is a magnificent achievement; I could hardly put it down.

You had to be tough to be a female member of Congress.

I've always had difficulties with female characters.

The musicians in Chicago gave me my vocation, but New York calls to a jazz musician, for sure. You want to test your mettle.

I'm gonna be real - there's no female rappers in the game.

There aren't too many female guitar players.

All professionals, whether physicists, economists or musicians, live by and for peer judgment, even when they are being paid by people who cannot tell the difference.

It's fun to play the female lead of anything.

Grammy nominations are certainly pleasant, but you can forget about them and lead a perfectly happy life - provided you have the approval of the musicians you work with.

I always end up working with people that do a really good job, so I'm the only one that I'm worried about disappointing me, not the musicians ever.

Mental health is personal for our whole band. As touring musicians, self-care can quickly become make it or break it on the road.

I won't take parts where the female character has no substance.

I wasn't sure if I wanted to try the retro style in the first place, because many musicians have left masterpieces in the genre, and I felt burdened by this.

There is no one like Toto in history in that we were both successful as session musicians and also had a band that sold so many million records.

Youll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.

The female nudity in movies is always sexualized.

I didn't want to be one of those touring musicians who get to hear about their daughter taking her first steps while they're in New Zealand.

Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone - beginners, children, and non-musicians.

'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.

My poetry definitely comes out of a female body.

Most true musicians don't do it for the money, they do it because they love it. When I did slam poetry, it was a great way for me to express myself, I loved it.

I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a living example of it in their families, and I did. So I always knew that it was possible.

Great minds think alike-especially when they are female.

I'd like to become a female Louis Theroux.

Female energy is very comforting and beautiful.

My life isn't really that different from a biological female.

I've hung out and performed with many Native American musicians, and my experience is that the first peoples of this land are incredibly open, warm and forgiving.

There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.

I've always loved the sound of female vocals.

The Unity Band project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.

Give up the tyranny of female charm.

The eternal female draws us onward.

I don't go around, the way many musicians do, with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just sticking my head in the music all the time.

I love British female directors lately.

I had both male and female heroes.

I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.

Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other.

Most musicians, regardless of what culture they come from, can get together and agree on some stuff about music. As there is going to be a common ground.

I had a chance to play with the best musicians that were coming through because I was pretty good myself or else they wouldn't have tolerated with me.

My musical education started in the limelight, because I found myself surrounded by real musicians, but after my career had taken off.

If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely starstruck.

There are musicians who wait all their lives for this award while for me it came with my first album. People have started acknowledging my work because of the Grammy.

Clear Channel owns all the major radio stations and venues. Most musicians aren't aware that a few people control so much of what we hear.

I'd like to do some female roles again.

Any successful company has female models.

Working with a female director has great perks.

Lower your gaze because you become less of a human every time you stare at a woman and you stare at her like she's a piece of meat, like she's an animal. That just means you've lost respect for a fellow human being. You're looking at her like an ape looks at a female ape, like a dog looks at a female dog.That's all, you've turned into an animal. Regain your humanity. Lower your gaze.

It's hard to separate art from artists so transgender musicians will never be mainstream until transpeople are looked at as notable as maybe redheads.

This is a great opportunity for musicians to display their talent by re-interpreting some classic Kinks songs. Good luck, enjoy, be creative... be outrageous!

I'm looking forward to do female-centric films.

Designers and musicians are primed to keep thinking forward. Once an album or collection launches, you can only think about doing the next one.

A lot of my friends are artists or musicians or single parent families and I'm totally aware of how difficult it is for them to make ends meet.

There's a fairly extensive network of musicians on tour who are all trying to stay sober, and we generally reach out to each other and offer support when and where we can.

Power is neither male nor female.

Kings had their clowns, the people their actors and musicians. Shakespeare was scheduled as a servant. It is thus that successful stupidity has always treated genius.

Your highest female grace is silence.

I like playing strong female parts.

When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes. It comes down to people's personalities and individual energies.

There are no new ideas about female education.

If income was directly proportional to technical proficiency and education, classical and jazz musicians would be some of the most affluent people in the world.