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I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.
The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy a beer.
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.
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.
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 guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for.
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.
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.
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 found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully.
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.
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.
Musicians are like a preacher, a teacher, an actor. You are the mediator who can transfer the energy of beautiful music to the others.
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.
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.
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.
I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.
From chain gangs to folk songs to intelligent soul, America has created musicians dedicated to truth, justice, and a better American Way.
I talk to people who are musicians, and they go, Oh this is hell. And I go, Are you kidding me? You never put tar paper on a roof, did ya?
You'll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.
Money is part of the game, but let's take this music as musicians to the next level, don't be recycling beats over and over and over again.
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.
For us, an album is the highest art form - an album or a really incredible film. We're musicians, not filmmakers, so this is what we can do.
We were just four unknown, aspiring Australian musicians singing happy, uplifting, melodic and inspiring songs, and being true to ourselves.
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
We really broke down some doors for women and for musicians in general. It was just go out and form a band and don't care what anyone thinks.
I've always enjoyed the enthusiasm of the best studio musicians and, over the years, have collected so many inspired contributions from them.
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.
If you grow up playing in church, it removes a lot of the boundaries that other musicians might have, growing up with sheet music or whatever.
My intention now, more than anything, is to promote kids and deserving musicians. Because the time I've seen, I want them to see a better one.
Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.
I like the sounds of real, living, breathing musicians. When a real person plays something, there's a soul. They're giving you their emotions.
I've never been in a band, but I've hung out with a lot of musicians and helped them with their shows. It's something that I'm really drawn to.
In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play.
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.
Everyone knows I'm a huge fan of Chris Brown and Justin Timberlake. For me, it would be more than an honor to work with these talented musicians.
I love to play. And fortunately, I don't know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they're always up for playing.
A lot of my friends are struggling musicians. Being a struggling actor, it's just frustrating because you're not allowed to do what you want to do.
I have more fun hanging out with my friends who are musicians and rock stars. You know politicians by and large are pretty stiff, pretty rehearsed.
A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums and said, Stay on the job, son.
We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.
When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all.