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A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren't as smart as me.

A lot of my friends are artists or musicians or single parent families and I'm totally aware of how difficult it is for them to make ends meet.

A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.

A lot of musicians don't learn the business. You just have to be well-rounded in both areas. You have to understand publishing. You have to understand how you make money, what's in demand, what helps you make the most out of your talent.

A lot of musicians have said things to me like, "Music saved my life". And "I'm standing on the shoulders of dozens of people that you've never heard of that were like angels for me that came out of the woodwork." And that's really the case for me. I had so many people that did those kinds of things for me.

A lot of my friends are struggling musicians. Being a struggling actor, it's just frustrating because you're not allowed to do what you want to do.

A lot of people are really quick to say, "That song sounds like this." Or you - "He's tryin' to sound like this." And I'm always like, "You're damn right I am. That's how - that's why we're all here." You know, we all grew up idolizing another musician. That's how this works. That's how music is created.

A lot of things inspire me. Music, for one; in addition to acting, I'm also a musician.

A lot of the musicians asked me if when I hit my high-Cs on the records I had a clarinet take the notes. Some [thought] I had invented some kind of gadget so I could play high register. They weren't satisfied until they handed me a trumpet that they had with them and had me swing it. Then they cheered.

A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?

A lot of what inspired many musicians is celebrating differences, and people relate to that - more people feel like the unpopular, freaky one than the one in the in-crowd.

A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don’t feel great about, and it’ll make you feel so bad it’ll destroy you and kill you.

A mathematician will recognise Cauchy, Gauss, Jacobi or Helmholtz after reading a few pages, just as musicians recognise, from the first few bars, Mozart, Beethoven or Schubert.

A model wears clothes and looks good, which is very passive. It's not like a musician promoting a new album. You don't have to read about it.

A musician carries the music within him. He needs no specific instrument. he is the music.

A musician's biography is written wherever he performs; everybody hears what he is playing.

A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.

A musician knows hit material. It has to feel right. Everything has to feel in place. It fulfills you and it makes you feel good. You know it when you hear it.

A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the Modifier's Madness. A lot of adjectives working overtime.

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

A musician cannot move others unless he, too, is moved.

A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special - spiritually or however you can

A musician must lift up the souls of the listeners, and take them towards space.

A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.

A musician can get lost to what he is in the session busines as it was.

An actor and a [theatre] director are both what I would call interpreters of work. We interpret a work, just as a musician will interpret a composer's work, we interpret the work of a playwright. We are servants of the theatre and I've always believed that. We must serve what has been written, that's what we're there for.

And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs

And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians.

Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch.

And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very wide psychological voyage. And I think that's something that we as classical musicians have underestimated.

An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician.

Anybody who'd expend energy preventing people from hearing music seems not to understand the basic principal of making music in the first place. It's so antithetical to being a musician.

Angelo Badalamenti brought me into the world of music and that's really what gave me permission to get into it even though I'm not a musician. It's just an intuitive thing for me.

A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.

A part of being a female musician is kind of getting past your looks and just honing in on the music.

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.

As a musician, I know that it'll take time for me to get to the ranks of an established artiste. Nevertheless, I'm very happy that people are appreciating my music.

As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely everything.

As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music behind the notes.

As a musician, we should always want to strive to be better, we can always make improvements. It's easy to get comfortable and it's easy to find your voice and your sound, but I always wanted to be better.

As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.

As a producer, I like to bring in unexpected voices, unexpected musicians, like Watt and Joey Spampinato of NRBQ.

Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes.

As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.

As a musician, you just want to be able to do what you love.

As an artist, I never wanted to be fettered by gender nor recognized or defined as a female poet, musician or singer. They don't do that with men - nobody says Picasso, the male artist. Curators call me up and say, "We want your work to be in a show about women artists," and I'm like, why? For Christ's sake, do we have to attach a gender onto everything?

As an improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business; I am in the surrender business.

As a songwriter and musician, it strikes me that in music, a certain territorial nature when it comes to one's own autonomy around life and art is common and understood.