In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.
There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25.
You kind of hope as a musician that you get some recognition for what you do, and when you do, it's nice. It's a really good feeling.
You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels.
I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians.
There are a lot of musicians I've met on Twitter where it was like, 'Hey, I like your music' - and then I ended up meeting them and it turned into a friendship.
While not a musician, my father was a music agent for years before becoming pop culture icon Famous Amos.
Visible Faith is an expression of my Christian faith which must be visible to be real! I gave the name to the collection of musicians who worked with me on the record.
I'm not just a singer of funny songs; I am basically, first and foremost, a musician. I'm always recording all styles of music.
I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.
May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life.
Growing up, my imagined life as a musician was something along the lines of me lounging in a Learjet en route to a swelling outdoor amphitheatre on a dazzling summer's eve.
My life won't be a series of either/ors - musician or actor, rock or country, straitlaced or rebellious, this or that, yes or no. The real choices in life aren't that simple.
I knew that I was going to have a life as a musician, because I always felt the pull. I don't remember ever having to make a choice.
Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredibly Christian background, but there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way.
I just wanted to be like J.Lo when I started. The last thing I want to be is a model-slash-actress. But I love actress-slash-musicians.
I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.
I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.
I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician.
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. -Frank Zappa, composer, musician, film director (1940-1993)
I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.
