Quotes About Community

I come from a place where there's a lot of musical families.

The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music.

It's highly collaborative, musical theater, so everybody has got to somehow get along.

There was a saying going around the theatre: It's a train, and you can jump on at any point whether you're a lover of musical theatre or a lover of theatre or a lover of hip-hop or a lover of history - there was a way to jump on the train.

Right now, musically I'm inspired by everyday people.

I think the Congolese music is more important in the African community that Rwandan. You know, Rwanda is not musically really important in Africa. It's interesting, of course. But Congolese rumba was so huge in Africa that everybody was inspired by it.

I'd always done musicals, and so living in the world of straight plays and working with off-Broadway actors and living in that community was a completely life-changing experience.

Magic in plays and musicals, I think, is more often created because of the work of an incredible company rather than a single component.

It's exciting to share an art form that I would never have imagined sharing with the deaf community. Doing musicals, it's not like, 'Oh, I'll do a musical with a deaf person.'

As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context of other people who have that power also.

Yes, I'm a musician. I also like to play with others, sometimes more, sometimes less.

I could care less about the radio or the TV or album sales. I want that connection with people because when I'm able to walk down the street, I want them to feel like I've done something for them and helped their life because I've never felt that way about a musician.

The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.

Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general.

I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye. He set a great example for all of us local musicians. Still, to this day, I see him as the best example of a right-on musician.

I'm just lucky to have the type of friends and musicians and people dedicated to my music that I do.

Well, remember that we were all members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.

It's great to have all this stuff at home. But when you want to make it for real, there's still nothing like making music with a bunch of other great musicians in the same room. That's one thing that'll never change.

All the people I hung out with were musicians.

I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.

I came from a huge extended family of musicians.

Creating sounds together with other musicians is something I've always liked doing.

I grew up around a lot of church musicians.

For musicians, Musikfest is the most cool event.