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The thing is that I'm an actor first, and in 'Once,' I was able to be a musician and a singer as well as an actor.
I love being a musician. I love the lifestyle. But I think it's probably as difficult and frustrating as anything.
Up-and-coming musicians can easily reach out and find a loving teacher, and that's definitely what happened to me.
The 'Daryl's House' thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.
It's usually important to me to get my idea out first because a lot of times my ideas will seem weird to musicians.
Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s.
Bill Justis was a saxophone player, good musician, arranger, and friend of mine who had a big hit called 'Raunchy.'
Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.
What I like about being a musician is that I find the thing soothing, but I also give the soothing to other people.
Colorism and racism don't stop when you're a musician or when you have wealth or when you're in any given position.
I met musician Ken Farmer in Lorne and he lent me all of his Bessie Smith blues LPs. That's when I started to sing.
The person I would trust the most is my mom. She's just really creative... She's a playwright and she's a musician.
YouTube is an amazing platform for young musicians - although its harder to get noticed now that everyone is on it.
I'm a musician - I'm always making music. Kobe Bryant is always playing ball. Well, Snoop Dogg is always recording.
My whole purpose of being a musician is to not follow the rules, so if I set rules for myself, I've already failed.
Nowadays it's hard to get somebody to invest the time - everybody wants to be famous rather than be a good musician.
Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it?
I never looked at being a musician any different than waking up one day and wanting to be an accountant or a lawyer.
Yes, for me audio-visual performance has its roots in my experience working as an improvising musician and composer.
A lot of people say, "What's the worst part about being an actor?" And the worst part is that you're not a musician.
I don't know whether you [musician] can be all things to everybody, which is why there are different kinds of music.
You know what you can gain when you sit down with the Moroccans. As a person and as a musician. That's how you grow.
Yeah, ever since I was super-young I had a lot of dreams - I wanted to be a musician, I wanted to be a skateboarder.
You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste.
Of course the headspace for the young musician is whatever the guy who is paying you says, is right, but that's all.
A lot of people say, 'What's the worst part about being an actor?' And the worst part is that you're not a musician.
As a musician I'm kind of nomadic, Waldo-like. I show up in different places, and I'm witness to unbelievable things.
The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.
I've dated the sweet mama's boy, the musician rocker, the struggling artist - basically a lot of people without jobs.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
When I was growing up and wanted to be a musician, the fantasy that I had of what the music industry was is so wrong.
I used to love jungle. I still think it's the ultimate genre, really, because the people making it weren't musicians.
Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!
I feel blessed to be a musician, and I know it's a power given to me from God that I must use in a very positive way.
I don't like heroin, unless you're a jazz musician and then you have to be on it because jazz is the sound of heroin.
I'm not a human interest story, man. I'm just a musician trying to make some small records and be happy, be peaceful.
Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.
Like many musicians, I don't look back much... only concentrate on what music I'm doing, and occasionally look ahead.
I'm not more than a musician that enjoys what he does and a Colombian that dreams and fights for peace in his country.
Chris Martin is more of a musician and hasn't really put himself out there as a television host or anything like that.
There are a lot better musicians than me out there that just haven't had the luck to fall into everything like I have.
Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no difference.
The musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is new.
You are in a state of mixing, and you just live with it. There is not one musician who is completely happy with a mix.
Getting this caliber of musicians together [for "90 Millas" CD in September of 2007] is almost impossible to do again.
Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.
I'm 90% performer, 10% musician. I've always said that Gossip are a band I would go see, not a band I would listen to.
I worked full time jobs, basically doing manual labor until I could make enough money supporting myself as a musician.
You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more