Most customers, by the time the musicians reach the second set, are to some extent inebriated. They don't care what you play anyway.
They didn't dictate to me as to what kind of music that they wanted me to play or what tunes, what musicians that I was going to use. They let me do my thing. That's one reason I stayed there for twenty-eight years.
Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians.
Kansas City Lightning succeeds as few biographies of jazz musicians have. . . This book is a magnificent achievement; I could hardly put it down.
You probably became a musicians because you're into it so stay that way. Don't believe that someone else has the golden ticket for you because they don't.
I feel really different from other musicians.
YouTube is an amazing platform for young musicians - although its harder to get noticed now that everyone is on it.
Riding a horse is a relationship with a foreign creature, and with musicians it's a similar thing: "OK, I'm going to put something on the page that will spook you into rushing. " Little games you can play.
There won't ever be a mass-market record industry again, and that's fine with me because that industry didn't operate for the benefit of the musicians or the audience, the only classes of people I care about.
You're collaborating with people you don't even know, when you're making a film. You're collaborating with people you've never seen. So, the collaborative process is very, very different than when you're collaborating on a record with the musicians you've worked with all your life.
Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.
Don't be a perfectionist. . . leave that to the classical musicians.
I started working in music very young, I was raised by a family of musicians and performers, so I guess it was more second nature than making an actual decision.
I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.
I used to have a lot of envy for those musicians who have been universally loved.
When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba.
A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren't as smart as me.
I think jazz is a phenomenal creative force, because it's one man, one vote as you're playing, but it's a collective thing, what you're doing. You're listening to all the musicians around you and you're working within that structure.
I would be happy if I could meet some musicians interested in different acoustics and traditional music. Maybe I will find some Native American or Latin tunes. Anything. Even maybe a great heavy metal guitar player or drummer, and we can do something wild together. My next step is making more music without formats or borders. Not just simple songs or doing covers, but music with more ideas. I think it will again be a synthesis with something else.
Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking.