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Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!
The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.
I think musicians have always been drinking and sharing a good wine. It is, I hate to say this, another form of vice.
People don't understand real musicians anymore. Jack White is great - he's the real thing - but he isn't having hits.
I was very lucky that more experienced musicians allowed me to caterwaul until I figured out what it was really about.
To all the musicians who are making reggaeton, let's put some more effort into it and bring something new to the people!
I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed.
Conductors make too much fuss about conductors! Humility and hard work are virtues. We're nothing without our musicians.
I think 'The Sunset Tree' is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.
You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.
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 started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
I think my music has always been a mixture, depending on whom I'm working with - what band, what musicians, what producer.
Music's always been at the heart of Apple. It's deep in our DNA. We've sold Macs to musicians since the beginning of Macs.
As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely.
The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy a beer.
I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.
You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.
If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.
A Cat Stevens record isn't just Cat Stevens' ideas. It's Cat Stevens and all the musicians who play with Cat Stevens, right?
There's nothing wrong with becoming a role model, nothing wrong with inspiring people to become musicians, to become actors.
I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians.
If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely starstruck.
Everyone in my family is an artist in some capacity whether they're musicians, painters, or sculptors, so it's in their blood.
We all feel love, and that might sound kind of corny, but I really feel that's what joins musicians together around the world.
I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for.
My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.
I would love to bring the children from my foundation Sinfonia por el Peru to play with some of the best musicians in the world.
I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
Mental health is personal for our whole band. As touring musicians, self-care can quickly become make it or break it on the road.
When I came to New York after high school in 1959 and started to meet musicians, 'Hot House' was like a standard jam session tune.
I like to swim a lot, while Stjepan likes to take long walks with girls. He's the very romantic type. Yes, musicians are romantic.
I found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully.
The Dead Daisies have been an absolute blast for me so far. The guys are all great musicians and also incredibly easy to work with.
I was about to leave L.A. because I didn't find enough soul in the musicians. Back in Virginia, it was just leaking soul everywhere.
I feel like there are a lot of bands or musicians that probably think improv is corny, because I think that's a sentiment out there.
People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them.
Great musicians, you don't just hear them, you feel them. When I listen to Randy Rhoads, I feel every note. I learned a lot from him.
Musicians are like a preacher, a teacher, an actor. You are the mediator who can transfer the energy of beautiful music to the others.
Many classical musicians lack pulse and rhythmical strength and precision, so for us it was very important to acquire and learn those.
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.
Intense study with Indian musicians such as Gaurav Majumdar and Zakir Hussain has inspired me to rethink my view of instrumental sound.
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.
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.
The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.
From chain gangs to folk songs to intelligent soul, America has created musicians dedicated to truth, justice, and a better American Way.
I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.
There are musicians who go through their lives sort of shedding their skins. For me, I've always felt backward-compatible to Version 1.0.
I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.