Musician Health Quotes

I traveled with the band for five years with Parkinson's.

I think rock 'n' roll would become exponentially, considerably more difficult to perform past about 65.

The Rolling Stones set the bar to where I look to as a band. But I don't envision myself touring in the way they do. My knees won't hold out.

Two pieces of advice for young composers: Go away during technical rehearsals. And do not have a back operation.

I think every physiotherapist will tell you that it's not a very good idea, and there are many musicians in the metal scene who have suffered severe damage - like, the guitar player from Iced Earth, Jon Schaffer, had severe neck problems due to headbanging.

Touring is hard. It's really hard on the singer, especially, because your body is your instrument and you have to be so good, it's like boot camp out there; I can't do anything - just sleep, sing and be very healthy.

My ears are shot. I'm a musician.

I've played shows with injuries before but unfortunately cannot overcome having no voice.

I think all musicians have at one time or another experienced one physical problem or another. I have had tendinitis a couple of times, so I try to be really careful. It takes patience and persistence to overcome injury.

In 1992 I was doing one of my first ever tours and I was in Heathrow airport and I saw these middle-aged musicians who had clearly been on tour for decades, and they all looked haggard and unhappy and unhealthy. I vowed to myself that I would never be that person. Flash forward 20 years and I found myself in Heathrow looking haggard and unhappy and unhealthy. I decided I would rather spend my time staying home working on music and making dinner with friends, instead of spending six months in a hotel in a state of depressing suspended adolescence.

Most of the albums that have taken long have been related to illness and fatigue or producer problems.

We need musicians! We need them healthy - we need to dance and we need to escape - and none of that is possible when musicians themselves need support.