Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.
They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer ...
If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
It was a haunting feeling, the sort of sensation you get when you wonder whether you are two people, the other of which does things you can't explain, bad and terrible things.
Tequila: I can't afford any of these apartments! Cop: Why not live in a government apartment? Tequila: No way, I make too much for that! Wait... jazz bar! I'll live in the jazz bar! Cop: At least you'll get a lot of "sax".
I kept on buying records and listening to them. Finally, I was able to hear the relationship between the jazz improvisers' solos and the underlying structure that it's based on, the chord progression. That was pretty easy to do in the swing era, y'kn...
When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn ever...
Jazz is democracy in music.
Musicians are always eclectic. Musicians are always curious and hungry for new things.
I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.
I try not to date musicians. It's all I've dated. Every guy I've dated is a musician. Obviously, it's not working.
I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.
The musician who is paid in advance does not play so well.
You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment.
Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.
We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.
My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing.
The important thing for any young singer or musician is to keep focused on becoming a better musician as opposed to becoming a bigger celebrity.
A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?
All of the musicians when I was young used to always say you had to tell a story when you're a musician.
He has a method that likens the musician to an athlete, so I do physical exercises designed to keep a musician in shape in order to perform the function, which is to play music.
