I've always done a few things at once. I've always been a musician and an actor, at the same time.
I am a musician. I didn't know I would be so when I was young. I do know that I have always heard music in my head that I wasn't hearing somewhere else and I 'needed' this music. And obedient to the laws of nature, I created into this vacuum.
I've always chosen all my own material; no one ever told me what to sing or how to sing it, but I've always been pressured intensely to use musicians outside of my band.
I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.
I've been a musician longer than I've been an actor.
I never looked at being a musician any different than waking up one day and wanting to be an accountant or a lawyer.
I have a hard time even calling myself a musician, but I still have to be involved in music in some capacity in my life.
The fact that a total of 18 musicians humbly came together to share the glory and create something this original, epic, and downright heavy, is a feat worthy of deep respect.
As far as artists and musicians, they don't retire. They might tour less.
Most true musicians don't do it for the money, they do it because they love it. When I did slam poetry, it was a great way for me to express myself, I loved it.
Everybody can perform, there are so many outlets. Musicians are no longer limited. In the past, the record companies made most of the money. I for one am not sorry to see them fade away.
Many of the African musicians are well-schooled and well-versed...what they do takes a high level of musicianship.
I came from a huge extended family of musicians.
What I've witnessed, managers are divisive and allow musicians to become clouded, irresponsible, and unaware of the world around them.
It's hard to find other musicians that push you to go somewhere new all the time.
When I'm working behind a camera, I feel like I'm trying to achieve something like a jazz musician does.
It was like an exponential weed. And people treated me as if I was an established musician. I wasn't.
I did a lot of writing when I was in college, and that's what I thought I wanted to do; saying that I wanted to be a writer seemed more reasonable than saying I wanted to be a musician.
My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.
The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.
Chris Martin is more of a musician and hasn't really put himself out there as a television host or anything like that.
There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.
Only a small percentage of novelists, painters, musicians, scientists, anywhere in the world, are talented. But there are many more in Hollywood than one would expect from looking movies.
At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.
Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.
