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Whenever I heard a musician do something that I could not explain, I went back to the theory in order to figure it out.
I don't look at music from the standpoint of being a musician; I look at it from the standpoint of being a human being.
When I was seven years old, I was leading a quartet and trio, and that really laid the groundwork for me as a musician.
Musicians ultimately are who they are, they aren't actors, so as a clipmaker you have a responsibility to protect them.
I don't think you can learn to be a complete musician. That has to come from within, and it entails a lot of sacrifice.
My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.
I wasn't a jazz player, but a classical musician, and I improvised arrangements of popular songs using classical motifs.
You can expect nothing in being a musician, and you have to be just very thankful every time it goes positively for you.
As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
I'm a musician. I play harmonica for relaxation. A good way to relax and entertain people. An excellent way to have fun.
I wanted to be a musician but I didn't have the talent for it, so I decided I wanted to be famous, so I became an actor.
I have a hard time even calling myself a musician, but I still have to be involved in music in some capacity in my life.
You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.
I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician.
I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.
In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.
I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.
I think the death knell for any musician is getting a job that you like and pays enough that you just stay there forever.
Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with 'Stairway to Heaven.'
I'm embarrassed when I see Brits abroad; they have their tops off, wear flip flops, and shout at the top of their voices.
I'd been trained as a classical musician, but also as a pop musician. My teacher made sure that everything was available.
In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.
In fact, many musicians are the happiest when the artist and audience re-interpret or re-imagine the content of the songs.
We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.
I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
It's hard to find five musicians who know what the other is going to do before they do it. And that's what we had in GN'R.
The Fela Kuti Queens - the band members and wives of the late African musician Fela Anikulapo Kuti - are my fashion icons.
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?
The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy a beer.
Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.
Hawaiian to me is a feeling of getting somewhere, without stepping on anybodys toes, without causing friction with anybody.
All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.
If I'd been a better long-term planner, I'd still be in music, as a musician someplace. So I'll take it one step at a time.
As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music behind the notes.
We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.
Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do.
I think we’re at the stage where we’re not musicians but not idols either. In a way, we also feel bad for being called idols
At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.
And of course, the musician - if he's serious - always answers: My last album is my best, otherwise I wouldn't have done it.
Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.
I think I've always felt as a band and as a musician and a music business person, I've always felt like an outsider, period.
I'm a children's book writer, and my wife is a musician. We've raised a family on income from songs, performances and books.
When you have the opportunity to make music with great musicians, take it. That's it. That's the only reason I need, really.
My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.
My father slapped my thighs with a variety of meats until I began to cry and sulked in the corner. I later became a musician
Dance fascinates me, and it is perhaps the most enriching audio-visual realm for a musician. Film-making also fascinates me.
Music is like having a conversation. All musicians inspire each other, and they're all geared to play something that matters.
Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.
As a musician, I have always strived for my albums and live performance to render a sound as close as possible to perfection.