Musician Quotes - Page 30

SPEAK OF TROUBLE highlights the abilities of Lowell Sostomi as singer/songwriter and brings together a talented band of musicians with amazing dexterity, loads of energy, and very original arrangements. Im impressed.

Getting this caliber of musicians together [for "90 Millas" CD in September of 2007] is almost impossible to do again.

An actor and a [theatre] director are both what I would call interpreters of work. We interpret a work, just as a musician will interpret a composer's work, we interpret the work of a playwright. We are servants of the theatre and I've always believed that. We must serve what has been written, that's what we're there for.

Feed the musician, and he's out of tune.

An element I love about the blues is jamming with other musicians.

I was very drawn to music of all types, from Beethoven to Jimi Hendrix. There were musicians and composers who obviously were expressing a vision that was beyond the mundane.

A very few musicians passed across all decades. In terms of trumpet playing, Louis Armstrong does it of course but Sweets [Edison] is right up there too. He is unique, in every sense of the term.

I've been a musician for 52 years professionally. I do it because, for me, I love it.

Communicating with musicians is really interesting because everyone has their quirks and their strengths and their weaknesses.

And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that.

Mostly, the people in "the room" are paid lobbyists representing interests that could afford to pay them. No wonder policy isn't being made that helps smaller, independent musicians or those unaffiliated with a larger entity.

So many policy decisions that effect musicians are being made without any input from musicians at all.

The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a musician is he.

I love anyone who breaks the rules, and musicians always break the rules - in an aggressive way.

I think very frequently, musicians become a victim of every song they sing. I like all kinds of recreation. It's aggressive. I want to be part of everything.

There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.

What you learn from working with other performers and musicians is invaluable, really, and can only help you grow. I mean, if you spend your whole life focusing on yourself, you're not really learning much.

Being a musician is a job - it is just a really fun one!

I did exactly what I wanted to do. It was always my intention to put a band together and be a band and not be about the solo pop guy. That was never me. All of the musicians that made me do what I wanted to do were bands. I didn't see it any other way.

I'm a folk preacher. A folk therapist. A folk musician. I come from authentically that which is of my experience. Therefore, the music is strictly from the soul, strictly improvisational.

You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.

I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.

I love working with different musicians in the studio, that's a real joy working with someone for the first time.

That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.

I'm definitely musician and storyteller. But I always like to take an active role in things I care about socially and environmentally.