I'm a semi-failed writer, but I'm a capital-F Failed musician.
Not everyone deserves to be a musician, you get lucky enough to be one.
I grew up in a musical family, but nobody was a professional musician.
I don't listen to a lot of music when I have my free time. But I'll go to a jazz club and have a drink and listen to a good jazz musician. Or sometimes in the morning, if I want to put myself in a good mood, I'll put on some Latin music.
When a musician is conveying that fresh feeling, that's what appeals to me, even more so than the style.
There used to be a club in new york called Bradley's - I've never been there, it closed in the 80's - but I used to study with Junior Mance, and he would tell me about Bradley's. It was a very important place for a generation of jazz musicians in New York. It was really all about pianists there.
I go by the "Miles Davis school of production and band-leading", where you pick the best musicians you can, you provide them with a minimum of direction, and you just let the music happen. I've seen it work time and time again.
I always knew I wanted to be a musician.
But I needed to prove to everyone that I was a serious musician.
I'm a painter first, and a musician second.
It's amazing to hear proficient musicians play your music. It's a once in a lifetime kind of experience.
I just like dealing with scientists for awhile and then going over and dealing with musicians for awhile. They both have qualities that kind of counterbalance each other.
I never have been a musician; I'm not actually capable. Because I can't even pretend to acquire the gift, all of my first feelings about art are still attached to music. I look at it yearningly, I look at it wonderingly. I behold it from afar, as something unattainable, something outside of myself, from which I can take nourishment, but I can't domesticate and master.
I had abandoned my plans for priesthood and replaced them with dreams of being a musician.
[Loco De Amor is] a euphoric, melodic romp across the hemisphere... A joyful, fun musician's record from a really good guitarist
I get to be a musician with my life, so it doesn't even matter if I'm good in it. It means at the very least, I'm pulling the wool over everyone's eyes consistently enough. And I put food on the table, and have work to do.
It was so much fun conducting an orchestra and watching the musicians' faces as some of Kanye's lyrics went by. They couldn't believe what was going on.
I think some musicians can almost forget that the stage is something to do something on, even if that thing is standing still.
There's nothing I like more than a writer who can sing, or a musician who has a book out.
I don't like heroin, unless you're a jazz musician and then you have to be on it because jazz is the sound of heroin.
First of all I think that is true, if you are a musician, particularly on the comeback that you do have to end up in one of these musical centers somewhere to be viable, salable and so on.
My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.
I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians.
The only thing I had in my mind [when I was 17 ] was that I was going to be a professional musician. So it was just the right environment.
Interplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes.
