Musicians

“If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.”

“I find it so amazing that people find it so amazing that I should write my own songs.”

“How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?”

“Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.”

“I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.”

“Use your faults, use your defects; then you're going to be a star.”

“Before I compose a piece, I walk around it several times, accompanied by myself.”

“Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best.”

“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.”

“The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.”

“Wenn du glaubst, dein Publikum zu langweilen, so spiele langsamer, nicht schneller.”

“If you think you are boring your audience, go slower not faster.”

“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.”

“I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.”

“You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.”

“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”

“We are stardust, we are golden, / And we've got to get ourselves / Back to the garden.”

“Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal.”

“Ich will dem Schicksal in den Rachen greifen; ganz niederbeugen soll es mich gewiss nicht.”

“I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.”

“An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down.”

“It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.”

“The writing of a good song is a brutal act of self-destruction. The finished song is the evidence of survival.”

“An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.”

“In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.”

“Art is long and life is short, and in the end, the art is the only thing that survives.”

“The piano ain't got no wrong notes.”

“The biggest enemy of creativity is self-doubt.”