It's amazing to hear proficient musicians play your music. It's a once in a lifetime kind of experience.

That said, everything's important, and every musician who plays on the record is an integral part of it.

I started out with the guitar and was a studio musician back in the 50s, and then got shot in my finger.

When I'm working behind a camera, I feel like I'm trying to achieve something like a jazz musician does.

Lady Gaga is one of the most amazingly talented musicians to bring her gifts to humanity in a long time.

Only to the degree that a musician is healing himself or herself through music can a listener be healed.

I wouldn't like to be in movies. Movie people are strange. They live a different life than musicians do.

I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music.

All of the musicians when I was young used to always say you had to tell a story when you're a musician.

I've always worked with other people. As a musician, it's your role to basically share with other people.

It is only when we become aware that our time is limited that we can channel our energy into truly living

Once the jazz musician learns all the fundamentals they can keep track of a lot of choices in an instant.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

Composers are in some ways the last frontier of musician that gets a paycheck for their musical services.

While not a musician, my father was a music agent for years before becoming pop culture icon Famous Amos.

I don't think of myself as "a lesbian musician." It's not one and alone. I think of myself as a musician.

You might have asked [about skill] of an artist or a musician or whatever... but with me it just happens.

Now as a musician, if you have it within you, you can create your own reality. Believe me, it's a novelty.

By and large, musicians respect New York audiences, and also are greatly concerned about New York reviews.

I'm not a good enough musician to like completely master something in a couple of days and turn it around.

I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do.

I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician.

I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me.

The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians.

I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios.

He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard.

One musician listens to another musician, and you get inspired and then you do your thing, but it's yours.

A devastating culmination of the elegant and the funky, a really sensational musician with enormous depth.

Western music is Bach, Handel and Schubert. It's good music, cleverly done. As a musician, I can see that.

A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.

A long time ago, Prince said that no musician is ever gonna make money off the Internet, and he was right.

I love writing songs and being a musician, but you can't really buy the feeling of connecting with people.

I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.

For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.

Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what.

I think I'm more entertainer than musician. I like to get with the crowd, make this night special for them.

Critics or musicians who attack me are jealous of my success and the fact that I make people feel so happy.

My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.

No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.

Music might tame and civilize wild beasts, but 'tis evident it never yet could tame and civilize musicians.

I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.

I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.

It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.

If you look at the way people behave at shows, icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship.

I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that was that.

The longer you've been acting, normally, the better you are at it. As a musician, it doesn't work like that.

I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.

If being a gangster were a prerequisite to being a musician, there'd be a lot less cello music, for example.

If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard.

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