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.
To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.
One thing, when you're an actor, you finish something and then you have to worry about what the next gig is. When you're a musician, you can always write your own stuff, and I'm working on new stuff for a new album right now.
My wife, Gayle, is a wonderful musician and singer. We share music, so it's a deep bond.
I just love to play and I get a chance to play with other musicians and I jump on it.
The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing.
I signed up to be a musician, I want to perform, I want to sing.
I always felt that the musician's job was to provide an alternative source of information.
I'm a much better musician than astronomer. I think the world got the right choice.
I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.
Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.
You know, I always say musicians, they can do it on their own. They can practice their violin on their own. A painter can paint by himself. A writer can write by himself. But an actor needs a group, and the hardest thing about expanding your ability and your craft is to have a group to do it with that is of a caliber where you can grow even more.
I want to live in a world where Miley (or any female musician) can twerk wildly at 20, wear a full-cover floral hippie mumu at 37, show up at 47 in see-through latex, and pose semi-naked, like Keith & co, on the cover of Rolling Stone at 57 and be APPLAUDED for being so comfortable with her body.
I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it?
Mose Allison is a beautiful musician.
I love the life of a musician but I live the life of a bodybuilder.
Only to the degree that a musician is healing himself or herself through music can a listener be healed.
My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician.
No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.
Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.
We're genuinely happy if some musicians of this younger generation are influenced by our music, as we were ourselves influenced 10 years ago by older musicians.
Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound.
But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; music's got these bars and measures you know.
