I got by as a musician since day one. I don't live beyond my means. I have real cheap tastes.
I'm not trying to save the world. As a musician and artist, it just ain't me.
Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s.
Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.
Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
By and large musicians are pretty lazy; they don't do a whole lot. They're usually very busy doing nothing.
I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter.
In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.
At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.
The Musicians Hall of Fame is chosen by thousands of your peers. So it's the real thing.
Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.
I identify more as a musician than as a singer, because I play piano and percussion, and I engineer and produce everything that I do.
I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician.
When I was a kid, I always thought that I'd be a comic book artist. It took a long time to start thinking that I could be a musician.
Every time we buy a CD or download a song, the artist is paid for their work. You might not know that this isn't the case when a musician's work is played on the radio.
Ben: Mom wasn't a musician! She got hers with a broom!
I like to swim a lot, while Stjepan likes to take long walks with girls. He's the very romantic type. Yes, musicians are romantic.
I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.
Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
You'll find little schools of musicians experimenting with different ways of making music in Brooklyn, all through Manhattan, in Queens, in Jersey, you know? The city is still bubbling with creativity.
Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.
