“ To me, as a musician, there aren't any boundaries genre-wise as far as what can you listen to to inspire you. John Legend Singer-Songwriter
“ I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading. Alan Greenspan Economist
“ One of the great things about being in a band is that you meet so many other musicians who will turn you on to stuff you would never have otherwise found out about. Alasdair Maclean
“ I want to change and try new ideas - allowing your sonic identity to evolve in your music and not being afraid of that. You see musicians hit upon something that works, and then go, "Let's keep doing that for 10 years." And that idea kind of terrifies me a little bit. It becomes like a day job then. Alex Kapranos Musician
“ With mimicry, with praises, with echoes, or with answers, the poets have all but outsung the bell. The inarticulate bell has found too much interpretation, too many rhymes professing to close with her inaccessible utterance, and to agree with her remote tongue. The bell, like the bird, is a musician pestered with literature. Alice Meynell Writer