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And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians.
I consider music to be a service and I am trying to serve the music, the musicians and the audience the best I can at every moment.
I'm so proud that my offspring became a musician. I'm full of awe that we are able to have a whole family live the life of artists.
I actually started as a singer in Brooklyn, and I lived in a community. To get out of the ghetto of my community, I was a musician.
Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.
Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.
I prefer live musicians whenever possible. And I tailor the ensemble to what is appropriate for the film and the score I'm writing.
I hate saying I'm a new musician, because I've been doing this forever, but they like to put new musicians on a lot of weird bills.
The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're there and playing, it's marvelous.
If you're trying to connect to people with music - it's more of an outward process and a lot of times musicians can be very inward.
I knew that I was going to have a life as a musician, because I always felt the pull. I don't remember ever having to make a choice.
Most customers, by the time the musicians reach the second set, are to some extent inebriated. They don't care what you play anyway.
I couldn't concentrate on music. So I made the choice to give up my career as a musician in the frontline to deal with the business.
I'm not a martyr, just a musician who dies for your sins. Oh, that's what a martyr is? Very well then, I am a martyr, if you insist.
I've always loved music and held it as a sacred thing that I can't touch, as I don't really want to deconstruct it or be a musician.
My mom really wanted me to be a musician so she gave me a guitar for my fifth birthday, but I didn't start playing till I was seven.
I try not to become friends with musicians, but life happens and dinner happens and going out happens - it becomes interwoven in L.A.
If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.
You kind of hope as a musician that you get some recognition for what you do, and when you do, it's nice. It's a really good feeling.
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
I identify more as a musician than as a singer, because I play piano and percussion, and I engineer and produce everything that I do.
Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.
The mini-Moog was conceived originally as a session musician's axe, something a guy could carry to the studio, do a gig and walk out.
When I was a kid, I always thought that I'd be a comic book artist. It took a long time to start thinking that I could be a musician.
To actually get together and make a band record feels like a bit of a big deal, and that can be quite daunting when you're musicians.
I don't want to be defined solely by what I do as a jazz musician at a club or a festival. That's not all of me. It's not even close.
I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
There are things that I am very proud of and there are things that you are not so proud of. But I think that applies to any musician.
When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
The Unity Band project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.
Even though it's become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it's still effective and it still has to be done.
I love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.
The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.
If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close.
I don't talk about my personal life. But the relationships I've had have usually been with other musicians. It's just easier that way.
When I was about 21 and just about to get out of college at NYU, Vietnam was raging, and I was a frustrated musician for a little bit.
What I've witnessed, managers are divisive and allow musicians to become clouded, irresponsible, and unaware of the world around them.
I'm definitely musician and storyteller. But I always like to take an active role in things I care about socially and environmentally.
Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.
I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians apart.
Playing live is such a total visceral experience, and really, as a musician, you're trained from the beginning to be a live performer.
I just wanted to tell the story of a bunch of musicians who had never had their story told before. There's no preaching or theorizing.
I've done my share of busking, and it's fun until it isn't. There are musicians in the subways that will make you cry, they're so good.
All comics want to be musicians. There's a part of me that wants to be a serious musician. I love songs about heartache and heartbreak.
Every musician writes about past relationships. And other than that, I can promise you, I have very little in common with Taylor Swift.
I'm on my feet and I'm doing what I love to do, and I'm in a profession, as a musician, where we can go on for as long as we can go on.
I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.
Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.
It never occurred to me that I'd be a musician. I was just drunk on music, jamming with friends, chilling out with lot of music around.