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I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.
I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.
Just like a comedian has a certain joke or a jazz musician has a riff that they know will get the crowd, a tap dancer always has a step.
I do everything I can to be the best actor I can be, the best musician I can be. I try to take risks; I try not to let fear run my life.
I feel like what I'm best at is being a musician and a performer. I want to use that to help people who are good at starting nonprofits.
There's a lot of integrity with musicians; you really still aspire to grow, and be great, to be the best version of yourself you can be.
Every musician tries to blend in some reggae. It's the only music that brings all people together, different races, different religions.
I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics
I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
I just love musicians. They're not all super-happy all the time, but when they're playing they're happy, and it's such a beautiful thing.
I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the jazz music I love is there in my music.
I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.
I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.
When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.
I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.
The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.
What motivates me is just to do a really, really good job at something. If I were a better musician, I probably would've ended up as one.
Possibly the whole creative whirlwind of any musician's life is based on garnering and developing and absorbing more and more experience.
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.
As for style, there is something about the way musicians dress-they seem to be able to create their own world within their fashion alone.
The place that I found where European musicians and American musicians come together is that odd middle world which is called uncertainty.
The only thing I had in my mind [when I was 17 ] was that I was going to be a professional musician. So it was just the right environment.
I don't come from a musical family at all, but I realized early on I was a musician. I started begging for a piano when I was 6 years old.
It's too easy to unconsciously echo another novelist's voice while reading fiction, a habit of mimicry I probably picked up as a musician.
Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their day.
I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my taste was far greater than my ability.
[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.
When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by the ghost of an evil blues musician.
Sometimes I joke around that if I weren't a musician, I would be a power lifter. I don't think people expect it from me because I'm little.
When you're a musician and you go out onstage, and you're someone who loves attention, you are going to become a role model to some extent.
I came to L.A. in 1970, and my desire and my training was to be a studio musician, which I had read about in my senior year in high school.
I never sought out a record deal. It caught me with my pants down. I was just a musician doing my thing, I didn't even send my records out.
I have performed all over the world to packed audiences. I don't have to be a trained musician to prove my singing abilities to my critics.
That's one of the things about being married to a couple of musicians, I have got great iPods. That's what I was left with -- an iPod each.
I honestly haven't thought much about what to play and where, perhaps i should...it seems like most musicians are better at that than I am.
If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.
I might respect you as a brilliant intellect, runner, musician or juggler. But respect your BELIEFS? Only if they're supported by evidence.
I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter.
Of course, you have to have a good reputation, especially as an artist, as a musician, so that other musicians would like to play with you.
I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is.
Ideally the point of music is community, not the player. Musicians are simply channels to link the audience to the music and to each other.
Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like
Busking taught me so much on so many levels, not just about being a musician or writing songs - actually about growing up and being a human!
A good film demands its own score, and if you are a musician, your conscience will never allow you to do something mediocre for a good film.
The only advice we gave Richie Faulkner was we wanted Richie to be his own guy. You have to let your musicians in your band be who they are.
The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the Gypsies.
Ive always enjoyed the enthusiasm of the best studio musicians and, over the years, have collected so many inspired contributions from them.
I don't hate being compared with female musicians. I don't mind that at all. I have no problem with seeing connections between women's work.
A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?