If you’re an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion, and it’s something that a lot of musicians juggle with. I’ve always found it so fascinating. – Damien Chazelle
In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part of a meeting at a church or a temple, where everyone was completely in tune with the sermon and what the whole event was about. – David Amram
I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around. – Gary Burton
I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted. – Eberhard Weber
I never gave up on that idea, you know, that jazz musicians have the same opportunity as everybody else and that it’s what you put on that record that makes the difference whether you sell it or not or are able to get it into people’s households. – George Benson
But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me – as well as Alex and Neil – as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing. – Geddy Lee
It’s a weird thing where, especially in jazz, you have to totally mention cutting sessions and people one-upping each other and people being super, super tough on each other. And out of it emerge these genius musicians. – Damien Chazelle
I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so it’s difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting – I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels. – Nigel Kennedy
Well there is a lot of work here for younger and older musicians now. Our Ministry of Culture has now really embarked on changing things for artists, and it is getting much better. We just have to organize ourselves as artists, and then things will be better. – Miriam Makeba
The interesting thing about the top 200 to 300 tweeters – a lot of them are musicians, actors, etc. LeBron James, etc. I think Lady Gaga is number one. But! They’re not all celebrities. There’s ‘CNN Breaking News.’ And the ‘New York Times.’ And other brands like Gary Vaynerchuk, who aren’t really that known outside that world. – Dick Costolo
You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it’s kind of a lifestyle and it’s easy to get caught up in it – you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone’s doing a certain thing… It’s tough. – Eminem
I’m a great believer that actors are very similar to session musicians. You wouldn’t ask a session musician, ‘How do you play jazz,’ and then, ‘How do you play classical?’ They just do it, because if they don’t do it, they don’t eat. – Eddie Marsan
People don’t understand real musicians anymore. Jack White is great – he’s the real thing – but he isn’t having hits. – Prince
There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high level with extremely valuable material, motifs, and melodies. – Miroslav Vitous
I was being ridiculed for going to school… But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole show-business scene… They were doing with jazz musicians what they usually reserved for rock n’ roll cats: making them overnight successes, then overnight antiques. – Donald Byrd
I don’t think that there’s much that sets me apart from other musicians, but I think there are definitely things that set me apart from other kinds of artists. I feel that musicians do it their own way, write their own songs and put on a great live shows. – Ed Sheeran
I’m envious of writers and musicians. I think it must be so difficult. Not just the frustration, but the discipline. – Michael Keaton
I think a lot of musicians and artists are really one that really only have one trick. – Christian Scott
I played with so many musicians and some of the musicians would have something I want. I steal a lot of them, and I mash it up, I mash it up into my chords. – David Edwards
A lot of young musicians in Stockholm are about keeping tradition alive and moving it forward at the same time. – Neneh Cherry
You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor. – Frank Black
YouTube is an amazing platform for young musicians – although it’s harder to get noticed now that everyone is on it. – Conor Maynard
I’d photographed musicians before but this was different. Syd was very charismatic, and he had the aura of a poete maudit, which made him the perfect subject for me – I realised that rock n’ rollers were the modern equivalent of all the poets I was so enamoured with. – Mick Rock
I think my music has always been a mixture, depending on whom I’m working with – what band, what musicians, what producer. – Matisyahu
Being in The Fall isn’t like being in another group. It isn’t a holiday. A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren’t as smart as me. – Mark E. Smith
People are afraid to ask musicians to be involved in projects because they anticipate being turned down. Young artists hesitate before contacting me. People in my position don’t get approached often enough. – David Sylvian
And then the last album, ‘Get It’, was done over a shorter period of time and I started using other musicians, as opposed to playing all the instruments myself like I did on the other two. – Dave Edmunds
I always loved the look of musicians. I’ve always admired them because they have a look – when I was growing up, it seemed that the ones I liked didn’t need to have a stylist. – Frida Giannini