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The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions.
I think if you're a painter, you paint; if you're a golfer, you golf; if you're a fisherman, you fish; if you're a musician, you play music.
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie.
I knew nothing of the real life of a musician, but I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion.
I just have never seen anyone build anything significant in any field without having a deep and detailed sense of what they are building on.
I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.
Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.
To my wife, I'm not Herbie Hancock the musician. I'm her husband. When I'm talking to a neighbor, I'm a neighbor. When I vote, I'm a citizen.
Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.
That's for non-musicians to say: "I only listen to this or that type of music." I think musicians love all music, or at least that's my case.
A model wears clothes and looks good, which is very passive. It's not like a musician promoting a new album. You don't have to read about it.
I think there are just a million interviews in anthologies with famous musicians that are about the music, and they're really boring to read.
I am a musician who also does love to explore the world in many ways, so my approaching with my songs, videos, and haikus is: 'Make It Real.'
Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.
I've had my bubblegum years and I did them well. Now it's time to come back as the woman, artist, and musician that I am without apologizing.
When I was 21 or 22, I realized I was never going to be something else - I had to be a musician. I can't commit to anything unless I love it.
I actually was a musician in college, a composer and singer, and really intended to be the second coming of Leonard Bernstein when I got out.
I'm really not good at anything else, so if I don't make it as a musician, I'll probably just end up living in the woods with a bunch of dogs.
When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the staging.
The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me.
There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience!
Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.
I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer - I'm going to push myself to do as many things as I can and see where it goes.
I loved music - listening and playing - but of course I could not imagine I would be a professional musician. It really happened step by step.
I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers.
I feel like musicians have such a precarious place in the political discourse, because musicians are, sort of just by nature, people-pleasers.
Newspapers and magazines didn't want pictures of musicians behaving badly back then. Now, because of the Internet, that's all the media wants.
When you're a musician and you release an album, you have to accept the criticism - and I accept it! But it's something I'll never get used to.
I want people to hear musicians like Joe Cuba. He has done things to whole masses of Puerto Rican people. The music is fantastic and important.
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
A lot of my friends are artists or musicians or single parent families and I'm totally aware of how difficult it is for them to make ends meet.
An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.
I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.
The important thing for any young singer or musician is to keep focused on becoming a better musician as opposed to becoming a bigger celebrity.
I don't want to be a musician forever. I want to keep going to school and become a lawyer for women's rights and also use the law to help women.
Everything that I do is limitation and complete intuition. I'm a human being. I'm not a musician. I'm not an entertainer. I don't know anything!
Music will always be there. I own a piano. I have it in my apartment. I play it every day, and I have a lot of musician friends who I play with.
I became a professional musician and played all kinds of music. I played bluegrass, I played classical music, and for many years, I played jazz.
As a Latin musician, I understand that there are so many places where people don't know who I am. My albums never came out in Australia or Japan.
The musicians recommend that I sing a sing the way it is written the first time and then start to look for other notes that aren't in the melody.
I don't want to spend all my time working as an activist. I don't get satisfaction out of it. I'd rather be doing something else. I'm a musician.
I'm an example of someone who never made it to university. I did have this dream to be a musician. I felt that this dream had an expiration date.
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
Audiences tend to dig the earlier stuff by any given musician, and the artists themselves always tend to prefer the thing that they're doing now.
I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer.
I like to read. I've become obsessed with fiction. And it's too bad: I'm a musician many people love and I myself am not part of the music scene.
There's something really natural to me about being what they call in the business a "hyphenate." Being a musician-actor or writer-musician-actor.
When people ask me how they should approach performance, I always tell them the professional musician should aspire to the state of the beginner.