I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me.
A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren't as smart as me.
What separates great jazz musicians from average ones is Taste. Those who have taste consistently choose notes, tempos, timbres and voicings that seduce and satisfy attentive listeners.
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
I felt that with In A Perfect World I was still kind of finding myself - not just as a musician, but also in love and in life.
When you're a musician and you go out onstage, and you're someone who loves attention, you are going to become a role model to some extent.
There actually had been a tradition within English music of the '60s of people looking eastwards, maybe in quite a naïve way, but nonetheless, you had musicians like George Harrison or Bryan Jones recording the musicians of Joujouka in North Africa.
When I was about 12, I knew I wanted to be a musician. The blues had so much emotion and so much feeling; if you don't have that, you're not going to be good at it.
I have a theory - if the music is good and you have good musicians, the name doesn't matter that much. There are a lot of examples of that. The name is just a calling card.
Anybody who'd expend energy preventing people from hearing music seems not to understand the basic principal of making music in the first place. It's so antithetical to being a musician.
The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.
Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.
I don't go around, the way many musicians do, with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just sticking my head in the music all the time.
I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.
I knew a lot of my musicians used to take coke. I never saw them. They would hide it from me, so I wasn't really aware of it. Creatively, I don't think it was that great.
I'd rather be a musician than a rockstar.
If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close.
If a man tells me he likes Mozart, I know in advance that he is a bad musician.
Classical musicians go to the conservatories, rock´n roll musicians go to the garages.
You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.
Up-and-coming musicians can easily reach out and find a loving teacher, and that's definitely what happened to me.
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.
I find it hard to work with other musicians because I know from experience that when they play, they play with their feeling, and that restricts me because I know I want to play in my own particular way.
Taylor is a musician who does things under her own name and tells her own stories-her songs and her albums are her.
I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.
