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To me, as a musician, there aren't any boundaries genre-wise as far as what can you listen to to inspire you.
I don't think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it.
I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me
I love music so much I love what I do. I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.
I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.
Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.
There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25.
To do anything with someone like Bono or someone would be like, you know, a milestone, I think, as a musician.
I am an observer of life, a non-participant who takes no sides. I am in the regimented society, but not of it.
I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.
Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough.
My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.
I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.
Dude, if you want to be a great musician, you have to try heroin. You'll see. It's like being back in the womb.
The beauty of being a musician is writing songs. That's the best part. It's therapeutic and honest and private.
The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel.
I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.
There's zero correlation between owning music and being a greater music lover or musician than the next person.
Music can shoot through the musician like lightening through the sky if that music is unobstructed by thoughts.
I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.
Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true.
My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a character.
I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.
But God has a few of us to whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.
The Daryls House thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.
Musicians are so well covered in the press, it would be great to see more outspoken practitioners of green life.
I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.
Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge.
As a producer, I like to bring in unexpected voices, unexpected musicians, like Watt and Joey Spampinato of NRBQ.
I played guitar when I was a kid a little bit. I can tool around with a guitar, but I'm certainly not a musician.
I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.
Musicians have to do what they do and express it musically. All the blah blah blah will get lost in the dialogue.
You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville.
I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.
Bill Justis was a saxophone player, good musician, arranger, and friend of mine who had a big hit called Raunchy.
I love working with different musicians in the studio, that's a real joy working with someone for the first time.
'SNL' is probably one of the premiere outlets that a musician can perform on that isn't obviously a music outlet.
I'm lucky to have had the opportunity to perform with bands that have influenced me as a musician over the years.
I've been collaborating with Ira Schickman on some songs, and there will be many other, great musicians involved.
Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other.
To be able to call myself a New York City based musician is just a pleasure and I still get a real kick out of it.
My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians.
Music should never be a dictatorship. It should be a symbiotic relationship between the musician and the audience.
I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing.
I try not to date musicians. It's all I've dated. Every guy I've dated is a musician. Obviously, it's not working.
Many of the African musicians are well-schooled and well-versed...what they do takes a high level of musicianship.
Musicians can look forward to playing with the best musicians that ever played. They can even have their own band!
For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.