“If making something of myself means losing myself, then what am I making?”— Nelson George, Ezekiel Figuero, Justice Smith, imdb.com
“Sebastian: I thought you wanted me to do this, it just sounds like now you don't want me to do it. Mia: What do you mean, I wanted you to do this? Sebastian: This is what you wanted for me. Mia: To be in this band? Sebastian: To be in a band, to have a steady job, you know to be... you know. Mia: Of…”— Damien Chazelle, Mia Dolan, Emma Stone, imdb.com
“Well, I'm going to be a famous jazz musician. I've got it all figured out. I'll be unappreciated in my own country, but my gutsy blues stylings will electrify the French. I'll avoid the horrors of drug abuse, but I do plan to have several torrid love affairs, and I may or may not die young. I haven'…”— George Meyer, Lisa Simpson, Yeardley Smith, imdb.com
“When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, “smoked salmon and Bach.””— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“A musician once said: In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there remains an energy that is all the stronger for being constrained, controlled and compressed. It is therefore necessary to present oneself with the greatest humilit…”— Henri Matisse, amazon.com
“But, you know, to be fair, I was so young. I was barely a woman. When we met, I was 16. When we married, I was 17. By the time I was 20, we had already had two children. And so I was really young and didn't have the ability, A, to identify my feelings or where my feelings fit into a marriage, and I…”— Carole King, npr.org
“I love a voice that’s really beautiful and clear. I’ve always had a strong curiosity about the voice; I think it’s the most interesting instrument.”— Briana Marela, vogue.com
“Those who use their hands for a living, whether it be a musician, artist, athlete, to name a few, have a hand up on being great in bed.”— Stephanie Dolce, therichest.com
“School was a very cruel environment, and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt, and I learnt to cope with it.”— Kate Bush, brainyquote.com
“...because once you've got one scar on your face or your heart, its only a matter of time before someone gives you another - and another - until a day doesn't go by when you aren't being bashed senseless, nor a town that you haven't been run out of, and you get to be such a goddamn mess that finally…”— Nick Cave, goodreads.com
“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 t…”— Tom Waits, goodreads.com
“Piano remains my secure resort, like a temple for a disillusioned believer, in times of doldrums and uncertainty – but living in a shelter hardly ever tastes of life.”— Julia Laksa, thoughtcatalog.com