A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?
The fact that I'm virtually deaf. Any woman who's going to date a rock musician has to be prepared to repeat herself every 10 seconds. My wife asks me where we should go for dinner and it sounds like the schoolteacher from Charlie Brown.
And then the last album, "Get It", was done over a shorter period of time and I started using other musicians, as opposed to playing all the instruments myself like I did on the other two.
I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do.
Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, and many other great jazz musicians objected to their music being called jazz. While the outside world may want to put a label on it, those who create it think of it just as music, and tend not to classify it.
Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big deal.
The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.
If there is any selfish angle, then it would probably be me just knocking myself in the head, thinking "Is there anybody here? Am I still able to communicate with other musicians?"
Daniel Handler's a writer, musician and the author of, among other things, the "Series Of Unfortunate Events" books. He also wrote the TV version of the books that is available now on Netflix. As said, I recommend both media for this story.
As the musician straineth his strings, and yet he breaketh none of them, but maketh thereby a sweeter melody and better concord; so God, through affliction makes His own better unto the fruition and enjoying of the life to come.
The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions.
Most musicians don't write about being a musician cause most musicians aren't writers.
The more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become.
I feel like I live in my own little world, to be honest. I mean, I love my record, but I don't feel tied to it. I sort of created my own little universe in the studio, and that's why all of those musicians who made a living in the Nashville music scene loved coming over to my place so much.
We're not just R&B guys. We can do pop, rock, blues . . . a wide variety. We are musicians and play several instruments. We understand how to record things live and work with an orchestra. We can also program with a drum machine and work with all the other computerized components that are current today.
I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics
The show is coming from the music. I get on the stage with the band, and I communicate with my musicians, and the music that we create and all that is coming out of us. The music is making the show and the music is creating the atmosphere, so if you close your eyes and listen and feel what it is that's coming out of the speakers, that's the whole point.
To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.
I'm not trying to save the world. As a musician and artist, it just ain't me.
A lot of good musicians made me look good.
Athens, much like Austin, is a difficult music scene. There are so many musicians there that it is hard to get gigs and hard for people to take you seriously.
I suppose I would still be a communicator, maybe a musician.
YouTube is an amazing platform for young musicians - although its harder to get noticed now that everyone is on it.
When I look back on my life, I don't have regrets about what I didn't do. If I'd become a musician, it could have ruined my life.
Composers are in some ways the last frontier of musician that gets a paycheck for their musical services.
