I've never been in a band, but I've hung out with a lot of musicians and helped them with their shows. It's something that I'm really drawn to.
What formed me as a musician, a songwriter, the sound and personality of my band, a whole lot of that happened well before 1991.
I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did.
There are a lot better musicians than me out there that just haven't had the luck to fall into everything like I have.
There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience!
I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician.
Well, remember that we were all members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.
The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.
The musicians recommend that I sing a sing the way it is written the first time and then start to look for other notes that aren't in the melody.
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.
One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.
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.
At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.
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.
