I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody.
Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.
I'm always trying to think of something clever and fun to do with the music. There's so many cool things musicians and artists can do with their products.
You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.
I think the death knell for any musician is getting a job that you like and pays enough that you just stay there forever.
Actually, I wanted to be a musician, either a guitarist or a drummer. I guess my dreams were in the entertainment industry, and I landed somewhere along there.
I wanted to be a musician, either a guitarist or a drummer. I guess my dreams were in the entertainment industry, and I landed somewhere along there.
My musical education started in the limelight, because I found myself surrounded by real musicians, but after my career had taken off.
Just because you put super great musicians together, it doesn't mean you're going to have that chemistry as a band.
I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparation and their utter devotion to this great, eternal language: music.
Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times.
I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians.
I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me.
I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie.
I've done my share of busking, and it's fun until it isn't. There are musicians in the subways that will make you cry, they're so good.
Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.
I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.
I'm a musician. I play harmonica for relaxation. A good way to relax and entertain people. An excellent way to have fun.
You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.
