You know as I started as a shy young conductor, I always wanted to cooperate. To build up the musicians. To help them to be better than without a conductor. And sometimes young talented musicians have to be encouraged. – Kurt Masur
I was lucky enough to first meet Elvis at his house in Bel Air and he used to invite different artists, singers and musicians, to come and jam with him at his house. – Jackie DeShannon
Bobby Darin was one of the first to take black musicians on the road with his band, and there were places that didn’t want him to play, and he stood up to it. – Kevin Spacey
With El Sistema, you can create orchestras everywhere; then they can decide whether they want to become professional musicians. The aim is not only to create musicians, but to create people. – Juan Diego Florez
Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo. – Karlheinz Stockhausen
The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy a beer. – Joe Elliott
‘Instagram’ is great if you want to share photos, but you’re not that technical. Or, if you’re not interested in sharing publicly, ‘Instagram’ becomes a place where you can not only consume photos and videos from musicians, or whoever, but send them directly to your friends. – Kevin Systrom
I try not to date musicians. It’s all I’ve dated. Every guy I’ve dated is a musician. Obviously, it’s not working. – Kelly Clarkson
Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days. – Kevin Eubanks
When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich. – Maya Angelou
When you keep the caliber of musicians very high in the band, people are going to come and go. Some of them will be people who have to try various things, it’s natural. – Kathy Mattea
We’re all players and musicians and we sure all get along good. We just clicked right off the bat. We started playing and then we almost immediately started recording. – Krist Novoselic
I was very lucky that more experienced musicians allowed me to caterwaul until I figured out what it was really about. – Kurt Elling
I always wish I’d had more mentors, better mentors, wiser mentors, people who were proper professional working musicians to guide me as I was coming up. – Keith Urban
Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won’t get a lot done in the mornings, but we’ll work late and be honest. – Kinky Friedman
There’s a fairly extensive network of musicians on tour who are all trying to stay sober, and we generally reach out to each other and offer support when and where we can. – Moby
In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying. – John Sebastian
I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios. – Ken Hensley
Yes, but the great thing about all the people – and I don’t think there is any exception – who I’ve worked with is they’ve all been very, very talented musicians. – Joan Armatrading
I’m thrilled when I hear the greatest jazz musicians. They continue to search in ways other musicians do not. – Kurt Elling
I know too many musicians that have to tour on the same 10 songs, and they burn out. They get back to their house, and they have no reason to write new music. They are music’d out. – Justin Vernon
And I’m always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound. – Karlheinz Stockhausen
What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present is elite, it is the best and all of us as artists should be committed to that. – Lesley Garrett
Other musicians are basically personalities who want to make a name for themselves. All I do is sing old songs in the best way I can. What else is there to know? If you were a blacksmith, what would people need to know about you other than whether you can make a good horseshoe? – Leon Redbone
I’ve dated a couple of guys who were awesome, and the celebrity part of my life and the traveling part are hard to get around. You never get to see each other, especially if you’re both musicians. – Kelly Clarkson