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.
Kolkata is a musical city. What I like about people here is the lack of diplomacy. Some of the best Indian classical musicians belong to this place. Kolkatans do not go by fashion, but by passion.
There are musicians who go through their lives sort of shedding their skins. For me, I've always felt backward-compatible to Version 1.0.
'Cause I felt I didn't have anything else to prove as a musician... and boy was I wrong about that one.
You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.
I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.
If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely starstruck.
I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not.
Musicians burn through more cash than the Federal Reserve.
My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.
Just look at the Old Testament. They didn't go out with the army first. They sent the musicians out.
