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I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.
I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts.
I've always been around musicians and always been the songwriter who doesn't end up playing the music.
I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.
I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.
It's my fault in many cases because I don't initiate the contact to talk with a lot of other musicians.
I wouldn't like to be in movies. Movie people are strange. They live a different life than musicians do.
Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.
Lady Gaga is one of the most amazingly talented musicians to bring her gifts to humanity in a long time.
I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not.
I rather create better music and let that talk, than me going out and dissing other musicians in public.
I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios.
The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians.
Certain jazz musicians just copy what was done 100 years ago. The music won't grow if nobody takes a risk.
If you look at the way people behave at shows, icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship.
For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.
We're all continuing to grow up and get better as musicians, and the chemistry as a band continues to deepen.
I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.
There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25.
Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.
I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me.
Sometimes the simplest forms of music are the hardest to play. Especially for musicians that are accomplished.
'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.
In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis.
In the mid-1800s, they were known also as 'singsong houses,' and the courtesans were actually master musicians.
Musicians are so well covered in the press, it would be great to see more outspoken practitioners of green life.
I love working with different musicians in the studio, that's a real joy working with someone for the first time.
I think that dating other musicians can be complicated at times. Especially when they think highly of themselves.
The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.
Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.
A lot of electronic musicians probably wouldn't be bothered making an album, which strategically makes total sense.
I can't fathom writers married to writers and musicians married to musicians. There's your enemy in bed beside you.
I was singing when I was two years old, and my parents were very supportive, but they weren't musicians themselves.
Music moves forward so quickly; music is an accumulation of knowledge, and musicians keep getting better and better.
The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.
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 have one message for young musicians around the world: Stay true to your heart, believe in yourself, and work hard.
I think musicians have always been drinking and sharing a good wine. It is, I hate to say this, another form of vice.
I was very lucky that more experienced musicians allowed me to caterwaul until I figured out what it was really about.
You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.
I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed.
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 'The Sunset Tree' is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.
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 started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely.
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.
I think my music has always been a mixture, depending on whom I'm working with - what band, what musicians, what producer.