Quotes About Music

Well, my musicians are my friends.

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

All of the musicians when I was young used to always say you had to tell a story when you're a musician.

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?

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

I've done my share of busking, and it's fun until it isn't. There are musicians in the subways that will make you cry, they're so good.

I woud definitely want to collaborate with Indian musicians.

In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play.

Having live musicians in a comedy show adds a frisson.

I remember once, we got an interview, and he said, 'Dad, these people are writing about me like I'm an adult. Don't they know I'm a kid?' I have never tried to encourage him to get a music image like other musicians have.

There are only so many letters in the alphabet. When I talk to young musicians or authors and they ask for advice, I say, 'You gotta learn all the letters of your own personal alphabet. With music, you need to know all the different kinds of music and everything in and around your given instrument.'

Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general.

Country music's always had the best musicians in any format of music, and I always gravitated toward that, stuff that was musically interesting.

Passionate musicians only come from passionate five-year-olds.

I love the idea of having a beer with a lot of the musicians I admire.

Critics or musicians who attack me are jealous of my success and the fact that I make people feel so happy.

I'd been watching documentaries about early rock where white artists took 'race records' from blues and soul musicians to achieve mass appeal. I wanted to flip that and do an EP covering only white artists.

I was always trying to do architectural jam sessions. But it's not quite as easy as singing or playing a guitar, so I would always see wonderful live musicians and just envy them that I wasn't in that medium.

I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.

We never thought we were musicians. We just thought we were in a band.

I rather create better music and let that talk, than me going out and dissing other musicians in public.

I am getting to work with some good musicians, artistes, and composers.

I was interested in music and making movies about musicians, but my own experiences, and doing what it felt like for me to be a drummer? Nah, I wasn't interested in that.

I'm all about inspiring young musicians to get out there and express themselves through music.