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The creative process for a musician is very different than for a filmmaker. I have an idea, and I can pretty much execute it.
A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.
The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.
I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians.
A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?
When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level
If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely starstruck.
Music that is created with the primary aim of impressing other musicians fails to connect with the vast majority of listeners.
I felt that with In A Perfect World I was still kind of finding myself - not just as a musician, but also in love and in life.
My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter.
When someone really respects and admires us as musicians to the extent that they want to work with us, it's really flattering.
People call me a bedroom electronic musician, which I suppose I am. But I hate most electronic music; I find it really boring.
I really like Katy Perry and the music she does. She's an amazing musician and it's an honour to be opening for her in London.
I feel like you're not a real musician or entertainer if you can't go into a room, pick up an instrument and entertain people.
The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.
I am a musician before a writer, and a drawer before a writer. When I lose sight of that, which I do, my work tends to suffer.
I think some musicians can almost forget that the stage is something to do something on, even if that thing is standing still.
Communicating with musicians is really interesting because everyone has their quirks and their strengths and their weaknesses.
I'm not just a singer of funny songs; I am basically, first and foremost, a musician. I'm always recording all styles of music.
I'm not a very creative person, you know? I'm not really an art person. I'm not a great reader or writer or artist or musician.
If you go out and just play the old stuff and never write new stuff, you're not really a complete musician, you're a performer.
I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.
At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.
It's funny, there aren't too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There's a few - the really brilliant ones.
Politics and music should only mix to a point. Me, I think my job as a musician is to make people try to forget about all that.
I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for.
[Loco De Amor is] a euphoric, melodic romp across the hemisphere... A joyful, fun musician's record from a really good guitarist
There was a very famous musician in our family. He was a great violinist, an internationally known teacher. He was Leopold Auer.
You know, any sane magician would never reveal his method of deception. And I don't think that a sensible musician would either.
The living thing is not the clay molded by the potter, nor the harp played upon by the musician. It is the clay modeling itself.
As an improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business; I am in the surrender business.
See it in terms of paint. We don't learn subject matter, we learn paint. The musician can play any score that is set before him.
When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life.
I felt that with 'In A Perfect World' I was still kind of finding myself - not just as a musician, but also in love and in life.
To me, music and fashion are the same thing. A good designer is the same as an incredible musician, and the two go hand in hand.
What formed me as a musician, a songwriter, the sound and personality of my band, a whole lot of that happened well before 1991.
I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
When I look back on my life, I don't have regrets about what I didn't do. If I'd become a musician, it could have ruined my life.
My father was a musician, a songwriter and he played at bars and restaurants and my mom was a secretary for an insurance company.
I want to be 'Jimmy Chamberlin, the drummer, the musician who's done many things,' not just 'that guy from the Smashing Pumpkins.'
The majority of the people I work with are more than musicians and singers, they are personal friends and friends help each other.
Pretty much every artist in Scotland - musician, writer, poet, actor - they're all part of a thing called the National Collective.
Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big deal.
Musicians have made incredible contributions to the conservation and environmental movement and continue to do so, more than ever.
So what, I'm living in a park. Parks are beautiful. I'm a musician. And I'm tired of dumb people who don't know where I come from.
We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.
I don't want to be looked at as just that guy with the best mixtape of the year. I want to be, all-in-all, an incredible musician.
I am thankful that I can perform with Hui and E'dawn, who revived my listless feelings as a musician and helped me feel refreshed.
'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music.