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.
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.
History is we, not them.
I don't like rock opera with back beats.
I don't want to be seen as this math-rock geek.
I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.
