All Quotes

Musicals are my favorite. I'm a musical theater buff.
‐‐ Rutina Wesley

Musicals are plays, but the last collaborator is your audience, so you've got to wait 'til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.
‐‐ Stephen Sondheim

Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances.
‐‐ Peter Stone

Musicals don't get enough credit for being so surreal. It's like an alternate universe.
‐‐ Ezra Koenig

Musicals have clearly gotten more physical. You never saw Ethel Merman doing step aerobics.
‐‐ Bruce Vilanch

'Musician' is not a very respected title. I'm not a musician.
‐‐ Lydia Lunch

Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so they're really mean to each other about who makes what.
‐‐ Jackson Browne

Musicians always come off sounding a little bit pretentious, and a little bit... I don't know, hypocritical, from what they do, talking about strong issues.
‐‐ James Iha

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.
‐‐ Jaron Lanier

Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.
‐‐ Keith Jarrett

Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's unacceptable for someone to attempt to jump from the bottom to the top of the pyramid.
‐‐ Nick Cave

Musicians are, by and large, not the most politically savvy crew.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro

Musicians are impossible.
‐‐ Eve Babitz

Musicians are in-season all the time.
‐‐ John Legend

Musicians are often asked to answer for an entire culture, or for an entire movement. It's a process of commodification. It becomes packaged and summarized in a word like 'emo' or 'grunge'... or 'folk music.' I think that's just language itself, trying to understand the mysteries of the world.
‐‐ Sufjan Stevens

Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness, I think, only exists when you're a child and once you go past 11, unfortunately it's gone.
‐‐ Andrea Corr

Musicians are so well covered in the press, it would be great to see more outspoken practitioners of green life.
‐‐ Jason Mraz

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.
‐‐ Brian Eno

Musicians burn through more cash than the Federal Reserve.
‐‐ Shawn Amos

Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.
‐‐ John Perry Barlow

Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.
‐‐ Kinky Friedman

Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good.
‐‐ Adam Rich

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.
‐‐ Louis Armstrong

Musicians exist independent of any of the marketing terms or the categorization.
‐‐ Dwight Yoakam

Musicians from the beginning of time have been there to express the mood and the musical feelings in the air for whatever's going on in that particular culture. It's the greatest joy as a musician to be able to translate that, be part of something and watch the scenery around you.
‐‐ Trey Anastasio

Musicians get tense at big gigs. Some you can't talk to before the concert; some you can't talk to afterwards; some need the same size dressing rooms as others; others need bigger; some have comments to make on others' musicianship or how a particular song ought to be played.
‐‐ Richard Desmond

Musicians have always adopted Macs.
‐‐ Trent Reznor

Musicians like James Blake were a big influence on me. How he uses his vocals is amazing. And then Yeasayer and Animal Collective, who aren't pop bands exactly, but they do something that is so catchy and undeniable and so much fun.
‐‐ Lorde

Musicians make up for the copies of their songs that get pirated by performing live. I don't think there will be as many people showing up to hear me read as to hear Beyonce sing. We need to make sure piracy is dealt with effectively.
‐‐ Scott Turow

Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
‐‐ Billy Joel

Musicians of any era - whether it be The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Rage Against the Machine, or, of course, Madonna - will inspire fashion. And we, in turn, will inspire them.
‐‐ Renzo Rosso

Musicians own music because music owns them.
‐‐ Virgil Thomson

Musicians play music because you love... I loved to play drums since I was five. It's all I ever wanted to do. Rock stars, or as we call them, posers, guys who want to just look great, dress great. They're not musicians; they're looking for the fame.
‐‐ Peter Criss

Musicians playing together, it's a conversation, and ideally I want our conversation to be really intriguing and interesting and beautiful.
‐‐ Chris Robinson

Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.
‐‐ Dimebag Darrell

Musicians wake up and create a more loving community by creating heavier music.
‐‐ Cass McCombs

Musicians were always coming and going in our house. My parents didn't play much, but they were forever arranging these parties for artists. As a result, they didn't have to play that many records.
‐‐ Erik Hassle

Muslim Americans in general tend to be an underrepresented political group.
‐‐ Matt Apuzzo

Muslim communities themselves, as they expect mainstream society to stand down racists, must do more to also stand down the Islamist extremists.
‐‐ Maajid Nawaz

Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan.
‐‐ Jack Schwartz

'Muslim' is not a political party. 'Muslim' is not a single culture. Muslims go to war with each other. There are more Muslims in India, Russia and China than in most Muslim-majority nations. 'Muslim' is not a homogenous entity.
‐‐ Maajid Nawaz

Muslim leaders should ask themselves what exactly their relationship is to a political movement that encourages young men to kill and maim on religious grounds.
‐‐ Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have to win some very terrible wars in the future.
‐‐ Sam Harris

Muslim organisations tend to have a low level of organisation. The communities in Europe are quite diverse.
‐‐ Gijs de Vries

Muslims and Christians can work together to depose dictators and assert the power of the people. We've seen it happen on the Tahrir Square in Cairo during the 2011 revolution in Egypt, with devout Muslims and Coptic Christians protesting side by side.
‐‐ Miroslav Volf

Muslims are not bloodthirsty people. Islam is a religion of peace that forbids the killing of the innocent. Islam also accepts the Prophets, whether those prophets are Mohammed, God's peace and blessing be upon Him, or Moses or the other prophets of the Books.
‐‐ Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

Muslims are ordinary members of the working public, just like you.
‐‐ G. Willow Wilson

Muslims have a very bad attitude to homosexuality, they're very intolerant.
‐‐ Pim Fortuyn