As a musician, you just want to be able to do what you love.
A very talented player and all around excellent musician. I love hearing his records on radio!
You need to understand that a skilled professional songwriter can accelerate your success as an already talented musician. These people are writing every single day, so their craft is really sharp, and it's the best songwriters who consistently get on the radio.
Well I'm not a storyteller, as far as telling stories which relate to experiences in my own life. That's not what I do. I write songs which have a narrative and attempt to make sense and tell a story - sure! But whenever I hear the word "storyteller" I think of a children's musician.
You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor.
My career could've been anything, I just wasn't that good at other things. I'd say it was fairly easy starting out as I did in LA, meeting some great friends and musicians and landing a record deal. That's where the hard work began though.
Musicians own music because music owns them.
Basically, at some point, one day maybe you can expect to hear some of my music. I haven't really done that yet because my younger brother is a musician and really talented and I want him to come out with his music first.
If you make a suggestion and [musicians] don't know what you mean, you have to be able to do it yourself. I often sit down on drums and show 'em just exactly what I want. And I do it and then say, "How do you do that?" It's because I know how it looks, I know what I want to hear, and I don't drop or rush any tempo. It ain't in my body, it ain't in my nephew's body.
Possibly the whole creative whirlwind of any musician's life is based on garnering and developing and absorbing more and more experience.
I never looked at being a musician any different than waking up one day and wanting to be an accountant or a lawyer.
'SNL' is probably one of the premiere outlets that a musician can perform on that isn't obviously a music outlet.
Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes.
Combing my hair doesn't make me a better musician.
I think all musicians should understand that you have chosen not to be a soldier but a musician.
I love acting. I can't imagine anything else that I would do. I know a lot of actors that really want to be directors and be musicians and all that stuff. I like acting and I feel like I'm good at it. It kinda makes me happy. It's actually pretty easy to me and I can't imagine doing anything else at this point because I've been doing it for so long.
A wedding is like a funeral, but with musicians.
I can feel my father's spirit within me. I can feel similarities within us from the artistic perspective from being a musician. We have a lot of similarities.
As far as artists and musicians, they don't retire. They might tour less.
I knew that I was going to have a life as a musician, because I always felt the pull. I don't remember ever having to make a choice.