Musician quotes

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The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful.

- Steve Martin

Somewhere in the world is the world's worst doctor and he could be yours.

- Steve Martin

Some people have a way with words, and other people... oh, uh, not have way.

- Steve Martin

If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you.

- Steve Martin

I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.

- Steve Martin

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

- Steve Martin

I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.

- Steve Martin

I saw the movie, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' and was surprised because I didn't see any tigers or dragons. And then I realized why: they're crouching and hidden.

- Steve Martin

I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.

- Steve Martin

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

- Steve Martin

First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.

- Steve Martin

Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

- Steve Martin

Boy, those French! They have a different word for everything.

- Steve Martin

Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.

- Steve Martin

Be undeniably good.

- Steve Martin

I think that if you use the so-called 'strong words' you'll get your point across faster and you can save a lot of beating around the bush. Why are people so afraid of words? Sometimes the dumbest thing that gets said makes the point for you.

- Frank Zappa

I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.

- Frank Zappa

You gotta go inward to experience the outer space that was built for you.

- Pharrell Williams

You are one of one. None before and none to come. That what makes you different, makes you beautiful.

- Pharrell Williams

When you start trying to figure out what you're the best at, that's when you become delusional because you start to believe that. I'd rather continue to ride that mule than to ride the cocky horse. You see people spin out of control like that all the time. Those are the most tragic stories – the most gifted people who start to believe that it's really all them. It's not all you. It can't be all you. Just like you need air to fly a kite. It's not the kite – it's the air.

- Pharrell Williams

There's nothing like the feeling of knowing that you've made a difference in someone's life, even if that difference is a lifetime of nightmares and a fortune in therapy bills.

- Marilyn Manson

The key to changing the way people think is to change what’s popular. That’s why rather than submit to the mainstream, you have to become it—and then overcome it.

- Marilyn Manson

The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects of shaping our personalities and humanity.

- Marilyn Manson

Relationships never break cleanly. Like a valuable vase, they are smashed and then glued back together, smashed and glued, smashed and glued until the pieces just don't fit together anymore.

- Marilyn Manson

Most of the world's problems could be avoided if people just said what they fucking meant.

- Marilyn Manson

To me, absurdity is the only reality.

- Frank Zappa

You’re not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

- Dean Martin

What shall we drink to? – About four in the morning.

- Dean Martin

There’s a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.

- Dean Martin

Phyllis Diller is the women of about whom Picasso once said, Somebody throw a drop cloth over that.

- Dean Martin