When I hear a great musician, I can feel his life inside the music.
I'm trying everything I can not to be jaded 'cause I don't like jaded musicians.
I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician.
The so-called alleged 'art' of the video - well, the video has killed the radio star, but the video star killed the live musician, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
I don't feel like that many musicians are competitive with each other.
Companies have to take risks to get new knowledge, in a manner similar to how jazz musicians take risks when they go after a new approach to a tune or a performance.
On Eye of the Zombie, I had so-called studio musicians.
I've also become much more the musician I've always wanted to be.
In fact, many musicians are the happiest when the artist and audience re-interpret or re-imagine the content of the songs.
It can be difficult to mediate a compromise between what I have in my head and what the musician has in mind, which is often 180° different when it comes to the finished product, so it requires that element of trust from somewhere. The point I make to them is "You've seen what I do, so just trust me and we will come up with something exciting."
The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.
Nowadays it's hard to get somebody to invest the time - everybody wants to be famous rather than be a good musician.
The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy a beer.
I like to be in the now, now. Sometimes musicians have to wait for me to be genuine with it. As an actor, I don't have that luxury. You have to make it legit when they say 'action.'
Most musicians, regardless of what culture they come from, can get together and agree on some stuff about music. As there is going to be a common ground.
I was a musician first before anything.
I read to learn, tech myself stuff and teach myself math and do complex formulas, and it's very, very tough, but I enjoy doing that and keeping my mind active. It definitely comes in handy, I feel I have a pretty good grasp, at more than a lot of musicians, of the business and finance world.
I consider music to be a service and I am trying to serve the music, the musicians and the audience the best I can at every moment.
Black musicians were either trying to be American or trying to play down their Caribbean roots.
I'm a self-taught musician so how I read music is kind of very weak and I kind of read my own version of tablature, I write my own crappy reminders on what I'm playing.
Musicians are so well covered in the press, it would be great to see more outspoken practitioners of green life.
Strange people like chefs, musicians, and politicians affect me.
Lady Gaga is one of the most amazingly talented musicians to bring her gifts to humanity in a long time.
One of the reasons I moved away from painting was because I eventually discovered that I wanted to deal more with motion, time, and performance - and that became a much bigger part of my life both as an actor and as a musician and someone who goes on stage and travels around the world and works on productions.
I think one of the reasons musicians keep doing what they do and writers keep doing what they do, is that we're totally unsuited for anything else. And I for one am much too lazy.
