Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed over there for a long time. A lot of them moved over there, lived over there, and died over there. – Sonny Rollins
I loved the atmosphere of the dance studios – the wooden floors, the big mirrors, everyone dressed in pink or black tights, the musicians accompanying us – and the feeling of ritual the classes had. – Suzanne Vega
I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for. – Stephen Malkmus
I have a lot of relatives that were dancers and musicians and artists. They basically came out of the womb doing it. – Sarah Hay
There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, America, The Eagles, all that kind of stuff was popular. It was very easy for me to just kind of move in and be noticed. – Shawn Colvin
You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment. – Todd Haynes
My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50’s and 60’s and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians. – Walter Becker
For most artists, you take what you have and who you are, and then you expand on it to make it more entertaining. Everyone knows actors aren’t the same people that they play in movies, but people somehow expect musicians to be a certain way all the time! – Tinashe
There’s a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you’d grow weary. – Trevor Dunn
Hanson has rapid female fans, which I’m completely proud of, but a lot of fans are a contingent that have grown up with us really – our peers. There’s younger fans. More and more guys are Hanson fans, musicians or kind of guys who were into a Beatles record. – Taylor Hanson
Ultimately, what we do as musicians, I think of us as a type of emotional engineer. We essential take these sound waves, this sound, and we organize it into emotion, and that’s how we connect with our audiences. – Stefon Harris
I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician’s terms, I don’t know as much as real musicians. – Zooey Deschanel
A lot of what inspired many musicians is celebrating differences, and people relate to that – more people feel like the unpopular, freaky one than the one in the in-crowd. – Sophie Ellis-Bextor
When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band. – Sammy Hagar
The thing I like about ‘Nashville,’ it just happens to be about musicians, and all the music is practical, meaning it’s performed at a concert or during a rehearsal. – Will Chase
I had a musician friend once tell me that it’s not in the orchestra that you get the true test of the musicians but in the little trios and quintets where you really get to see if they’ve got the stuff. And the composer. – Wes Craven
I’ve always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians. – St. Vincent
A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they’re singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there’s a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play. – Wendell Pierce
My favorite band is Yes. They are all phenomenal musicians, and yes, this means I’m subject to ridicule from co-workers and occasionally from my wife, three kids, and even our Labradoodle pup. – Steve Capus
We’re not getting paid. We have these great musicians with us and it gives us a real charge. And the audience gives us a charge, because they keep it interesting all the time. – Tina Weymouth
But between sets I’d sneak over to the black places to hear blues musicians. It got to the point where I was making my living at white clubs and having my fun at the other places. – Stevie Ray Vaughan
