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Write the masterpiece that has not been written. Sing the masterpiece that has not been sung. Paint the masterpiece that has not been painted. Create the masterpiece that has not been created.

You have to hear this guy play. It's unreal, like he's telling a complete story in his solos. And it's a story you feel like you know, because you relate to the emotional content, but there's always a surprise too.

You can't make a fan of everyone. Stay true to your story, characters, music, art or whatever it is you do and fuck everyone else who doesn't like it. Life isn't perfect.

A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance.

A, C, and G are the only chords any honest musician needs.

Your talent is a seed; cultivate it, and in no time, you will harvest success.

A conundrum of music is that music brings people together, yet to become a skilled musician involves a certain amount of lonely time in which you're just figuring it out, practicing.

A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums and said, Stay on the job, son.

A devastating culmination of the elegant and the funky, a really sensational musician with enormous depth.

A genius! For 37 years I've practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!

A good song is a good song, and good musicians can play all different styles.

A good musician can do more to change society than 30 average mayors.

A good song and good musicians can really move mountains.

A grandmaster must memorize thousands of chess duels in his head, as these are for him what words of the mother tongue are to the ordinary people and what notes are to a musician.

A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught

A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

All comics want to be musicians. There's a part of me that wants to be a serious musician. I love songs about heartache and heartbreak.

All music now, I think, is fair game for jazz musicians to interpret, and they have been. I would consider those songs standards now. "Norwegian Wood" is a standard; "Call Me" is a standard.

All of music is connected, but a lot of people don't see it that way

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

All professionals, whether physicists, economists or musicians, live by and for peer judgment, even when they are being paid by people who cannot tell the difference.

All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds.

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

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

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

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