Sometimes I joke around that if I weren't a musician, I would be a power lifter. I don't think people expect it from me because I'm little.
If you make a suggestion and [musicians] don't know what you mean, you have to be able to do it yourself. I often sit down on drums and show 'em just exactly what I want. And I do it and then say, "How do you do that?" It's because I know how it looks, I know what I want to hear, and I don't drop or rush any tempo. It ain't in my body, it ain't in my nephew's body.
[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do.
Canada is a country of ingredients without a cuisine; we're a country with musicians without an indigenous instrument; Toronto's a city that doesn't even have a dish named after it.
It's important for all worship musicians to pour into young people.
Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.
'SNL' is probably one of the premiere outlets that a musician can perform on that isn't obviously a music outlet.
I regard myself as a true American musician, and I play every style that is my heritage.
They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.
I don't think of myself as "a lesbian musician." It's not one and alone. I think of myself as a musician.
In my view a jazz musician is a great musician
My interactions with musicians have been simply that: interactions with musicians. Issues of gender, or anything else beyond the music-making, have in my experience played no role in whether or not a musician has been able to articulate my intentions as a composer.
Ive always enjoyed the enthusiasm of the best studio musicians and, over the years, have collected so many inspired contributions from them.
I've been a musician my whole life. I'm really enjoying making music again.
Once again, in the fine tradition of North Texas Lab Bands, this is truly a superb band. Under the artful leadership of Neil Slater, these great musicians have managed to combine small group "openness" with the swinging precision of a classic big band. Very enjoyable!
I just wanted to tell the story of a bunch of musicians who had never had their story told before. There's no preaching or theorizing.
I'll leave it to other people to evaluate the legacy of my book, but I'm very moved when musicians tell me that they've been inspired by my book.
Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk about other people's music.
I think all musicians should understand that you have chosen not to be a soldier but a musician.
I feel that musicians are in a fellowship, and that fellowship is a responsibility.
I've made a life and career as a professional musician.
The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective.
I still have a fantasy of being a musician when I grow up.
I'm so proud that my offspring became a musician. I'm full of awe that we are able to have a whole family live the life of artists.
