Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money.
I enjoy seeing other Indian musicians - old and young - coming to Europe and America and having some success. I'm happy to have contributed to that.
I love being a musician. I love the lifestyle. But I think it's probably as difficult and frustrating as anything.
The fact that I wasn't expected to read music at all and was absorbing everything by ear... it had a huge affect on the kind of musician that I became.
For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.
Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.
If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close.
From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.
In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play.
They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.
As a musician, I know that it'll take time for me to get to the ranks of an established artiste. Nevertheless, I'm very happy that people are appreciating my music.
I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.
Like many musicians, I don't look back much... only concentrate on what music I'm doing, and occasionally look ahead.
The music industry is dominated by guys. I work with men 98 percent of the time - producers, arrangers, musicians, engineers.
I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman.
I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician.
I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
I have one message for young musicians around the world: Stay true to your heart, believe in yourself, and work hard.
My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter.
At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.
What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present is elite, it is the best and all of us as artists should be committed to that.
