Now as a musician, if you have it within you, you can create your own reality. Believe me, it's a novelty.
Musicians playing together, it's a conversation, and ideally I want our conversation to be really intriguing and interesting and beautiful.
I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.
I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.
I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.
I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed.
I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out of any situation. I think it was that more than anything.
To my wife, I'm not Herbie Hancock the musician. I'm her husband. When I'm talking to a neighbor, I'm a neighbor. When I vote, I'm a citizen.
I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or to put in a recording studio, or something like that.
When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by the ghost of an evil blues musician.
I always try to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young musician. One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.
The 'Daryl's House' thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.
When I look at how fortunate I've been, being a musician... my response to being overpaid is that I should pay it back to my community in some way.
The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy a beer.
want to live like there's no tomorrow. Love like I'm on borrowed time. It's good to be alive." ~ Musician Jason Gray
Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.
And then the last album, 'Get It', was done over a shorter period of time and I started using other musicians, as opposed to playing all the instruments myself like I did on the other two.
Musician: What's the use? Nobody's listening to us anyway. Wallace Hartley: Well, they don't listen to us at dinner either.
Many musicians will say they don't care about the money yet they must commit themselves to appear at given times and places, and to produce what sells, whether they believe in it or not. It depends on contracts.
For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy.
