I really like Katy Perry and the music she does. She's an amazing musician and it's an honour to be opening for her in London.
I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.
This is Graceland. Home of the most famous musician in the world. ” “Michael Jackson lived here?” “No, dummy,” Carter said. “Elvis Presley.
My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing.
I don't feel like that many musicians are competitive with each other.
It's hard to find five musicians who know what the other is going to do before they do it. And that's what we had in GN'R.
Making music, if youre a real musician, you carry on, regardless in this world.
Music that is created with the primary aim of impressing other musicians fails to connect with the vast majority of listeners.
Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.
It's important me as a musician and also as an occasional show goer to feel the presence of a band on stage, to hear a PA reverberating and slapping off the walls, the push and pull of an audience, the blood, sweat, and heat. It's a primal thing in a way.
I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.
Stereotyping and generating brands around musicians I think contributes to their eventual demise.
Meeting actors and TV personalities is one thing, but I just feel like meeting musicians is the coolest.
I do the work with friends who are musicians as well. I'm working on a piece of music and I have an idea of who I want on the vocals, but I don't really have a list.
I just like so many different kinds of music that I like experimenting. I don't want to keep making the same record over and over and over. I'm an 'evolve or die' kind of a musician. I think it's cool to try new things.
Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.
I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.
I didn't really think I would be a musician. I always thought I'd be a writer. I wanted to be a writer in college, but I thought I could be a better musician. I loved the process of writing music and lyrics more than I loved the process of sitting at my computer and writing. Because of that, I thought I would be a better musician than a writer.
It is my belief that there is a tendency among the so-called 'modern' or 'hip' jazz musicians to consider styles other that their own, 'corny', and it is my contention that in actuality it is these musicians who are producing that which in future years perceptive critics will deem 'corny'.