Quotes About Artistry

I think the future looks great for music, musicians, bass players, and all we love about music.

The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.

Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days.

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

In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.

As for style, there is something about the way musicians dress-they seem to be able to create their own world within their fashion alone.

By and large musicians are pretty lazy; they don't do a whole lot. They're usually very busy doing nothing.

All the people I hung out with were musicians.

I'd like to think I've left something in the world. Without in any way trying to be morbid, but life is very short, and I'd like to think I'd leave some body of work that would inspire other musicians long after I've gone.

People don't want their actors acting like musicians.

The studio is really fun because I don't make it into the studio unless I've got something I really like. I love working with different musicians in the studio; that's a real joy, working with someone for the first time.

I'm envious of writers and musicians. I think it must be so difficult. Not just the frustration, but the discipline.

We all know the record biz don't pay. All musicians have day jobs - no matter how big they are.

For most artists, you take what you have and who you are, and then you expand on it to make it more entertaining. Everyone knows actors aren't the same people that they play in movies, but people somehow expect musicians to be a certain way all the time!

A Cat Stevens record isn't just Cat Stevens' ideas. It's Cat Stevens and all the musicians who play with Cat Stevens, right?

Why can't jazz musicians just leave a melody alone?

I think what made John Lennon so exciting as an artist is that, like Dylan and other musicians with a truly important musical legacy, he had several faces, personas that changed over time as he developed.

I'm always trying to think of something clever and fun to do with the music. There's so many cool things musicians and artists can do with their products.

I wish I played guitar so I could start a band with great musicians.

If I wasn't a model, I would never have been around interesting musicians, even had the financial capabilities to say, 'I don't have to work right now. I can sit and make my record.'

This is what really makes real jazz musicians: people coming out with their own voice.

We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.

I'm big fans of all those musicians, B.B. King, Mick Jagger - they're all on my iPod.

I want musicians to be looked at as people that are not just doing one thing.