I try to communicate with the musicians the way I communicate with the filmmakers. I'm not going to say to them, can we be a little bit more presto here. Hang on, this should be a bit more exciting, or I try to explain the scene to them, or I try to explain the context the notes are supposed to live in.
A good musician can do more to change society than 30 average mayors.
As a musician, I know that it'll take time for me to get to the ranks of an established artiste. Nevertheless, I'm very happy that people are appreciating my music.
The best musicians answer something in you when you don't even know the question.
Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.
If a man tells me he likes Mozart, I know in advance that he is a bad musician.
Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however, there is a glorious unity.
I don't talk about my personal life. But the relationships I've had have usually been with other musicians. It's just easier that way.
Being a musician is a noble profession.
It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.
When I was seven years old, I was leading a quartet and trio, and that really laid the groundwork for me as a musician.
A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.
[Jazz musicians ] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.
Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!
A devastating culmination of the elegant and the funky, a really sensational musician with enormous depth.
I'm not a good enough musician to like completely master something in a couple of days and turn it around.
I'm a person of the arts. I love the arts very, very, very much. And ah, I'm a musician, I'm a director, I'm a writer, I'm a composer, I'm a producer, and I love the medium. I love film very, very much. I think it's the most expressive of all of the art mediums.
Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.
I don't look at music from the standpoint of being a musician; I look at it from the standpoint of being a human being.
Laughing and crying are really similar - what happens to your body. It's a very similar process in your diaphragm. Like a musician, you have to do your scales once in a while and warm up your voice.