“People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself on the slopes, but I've always been a tomboy.” PeopleI CanHardCareersRiskMusicianSlopes Author:Vanessa Mae
“But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantCountryPlayAbleCareersRocksFrontsMusicianPerformancesJazzLastingSongwritingPunkSongwritersGroundwork Author:Amy Ray
“I'm better at producing than I am at being a songwriter, but it doesn't change the fact that I still have a desire to play and write songs. I've never wanted to be a career musician. But I still love to play and write. It's a big part of who I am.” WritingStillsPlayFactsBigsWantedDesireSongCareersMusicianWho I AmSongwriters Author:John Congleton
“I was never successful in a noteworthy way, no one wrote about me, and I didn't have recognition. I've met a lot of musicians along the way who thought I was good, and they knew that was important to me. Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.” WayImportantEnoughSimpleCareersSuccessfulMetsMusicianRecognitionGood Enough Author:Lana Del Rey
“I couldn't concentrate on music. So I made the choice to give up my career as a musician in the frontline to deal with the business.” GivingMadeChoicesDealsCareersGiving UpMusicianFrontline Author:Robert Fripp
“The story of Rod Stewart, the story of Carlos Santana is so inspiring to young musicians because it shows in this trendy business how long a career can last. It shows how you can soar back, regardless of age.” LongStoriesShowsAgeLastsYoungCareersMusicianSoarTrendySantana Author:Clive Davis
“I know a lot of actors who started out as musicians and have very successful careers as actors, but most people don't know them as musicians.” PeopleKnowsActorsCareersSuccessfulMusicianSuccessful Career Author:Rick Springfield
“Musicians used to be way more instrumental just in providing a soundtrack to what's going on in the world. And it's also important to state what we think. There's like this fear for their career, if they have anything intelligent to say about politics. And that's really messed up.” IfsThinkingWorldWayImportantStatesUsedCareersMusicianIntelligentUsed To BeProvidingMessed UpSoundtracks Author:Alicia Keys
“It's playing with the idea of what musicians wear when they play live, especially focusing on the evolution of what a musician wears when they first start their career, when they are young and wild, to how they dress when they become famous and more polished.” FirstsIdeasPlayYoungCareersEvolutionMusicianDressesPolished Author:Renzo Rosso
“I have a music career as well, so I was going to either be an actress or a musician. Then, I did both. But, I was always going to do something creative.” WellsCareersCreativeMusicianActressesMusic Career Author:Zooey Deschanel
“As a journalist, I never critiqued anyone. I never review books. I've never felt qualified as a musician to say whether someone is a good musician or a bad musician. What happens with Black writers and Black artists is that if you're critiqued, for example, by a Black historian who wants to get his name on the cover of "The New York Times," and he says something, like, wacky, well, he'll get his name on the cover of "The New York Times" and he might get tenure, and your career suffers.” IfsWantWellsBookMightHappensArtistSufferingNamesFeltBlackCareersNew YorkExampleMusicianJournalistReviewsHistorianQualifiedNew York TimesTenureWacky Author:James McBride
“I've had a very different career than a lot of other musicians. I went through the major labels. I was signed to two major labels and bands. I've toured with Aerosmith, and I've had records on the charts, songs in the movies. If you had checklist of things a person wants to accomplish in music...I've done a lot. And I don't mean that in an egotistical way; I never take it for granted. But you can't think outside the box unless you know what's in the box.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayWantMeanPersonsTwoDifferentDoneSongCareersRecordsBandMajorsMusicianBoxesAccomplishGrantedLabelsEgotisticalOutside The BoxThink Outside The BoxChecklistsAerosmith Author:Michael Angelo Batio
“I can't say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career. Not only are they just great, nice guys; they're some of the best musicians you're likely to find. They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It's amazing.” FeelsI CanEnoughGuyFoundCareersNiceBandMusicianGood ThingsRapGenreFortunateNice GuyGangstaPolkaGangsta Rap Author:Al Yankovic
“Who should have children? Those who are responsible and completely dedicated to the responsibility which is actually a very small percentage of humans. Being a parent should be a career. Whereas some people are engineers, musicians, or lawyers, others with the desire and the skills can be fathers and mothers. Schools can be eliminated if the professional parent is also the educator of the child.” PeopleIfsShouldHumansChildrenSchoolMotherDesireFatherParentResponsibilityCareersSkillsMusicianShould HaveResponsibleLawyerDedicatedEngineersPercentagesEducatorBeing A Parent Author:Paul Watson
“I don't really have a career as a jazz musician. I don't really have a career as a classical musician. I don't really have a career as a college professor, and yet I did all those things and I did them well. I put out some records in the 1980's and 1990's that changed the way some trumpet players played.” WayWellsCareersRecordsPlayerChangedCollegeMusicianJazzProfessorsClassical MusicJazz MusicTrumpetsJazz MusicianClassical MusiciansCollege Professors Author:Paul Smoker
“One thing I always found hard to stomach over the past few years is that being a DJ or musician is a career opportunity.” YearsHardPastFoundOpportunityCareersOne ThingMusicianStomachOver The PastDjsCareer Opportunities Author:Erol Alkan
“Musicians, actors, writers - we're all neurotic, odd people who've lucked into accidental careers. So I just don't like being around public figures with that sense of entitlement, it just seems unhealthy, and it strips so much potential for them to develop as a human being.” PeopleHumansSeemsActorsHuman BeingsCareersFiguresMusicianOddNeuroticEntitlementUnhealthyPublic FiguresSense Of Entitlement Author:Moby
“I think that it's fear. The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions. If you're 22 years old and you can't believe you're even in the position to have a career making music, the first thing you're going to think is: Maintain. Don't lose it. And that's precisely what causes you to lose everything.” IfsThinkingKnowsYearsFirstsBelieveEnoughSeemsCausesLosesCareersPositionMusician Author:Steven Soderbergh
“Art is my 'solo career' if you like. Musically, as a bass player, I depend on other musicians to play, whereas, with painting, I'm on my own. I find it quite easy to switch heads and I enjoy both the mayhem of being on tour and the serenity of being alone in my art studio.” IfsArtPlayEasyEnjoyMy OwnCareersPlayerPaintingDependsMusicianArt IsStudiosSerenitySoloBassMayhemBass Players Author:Horace Panter
“When you get in the middle of a career and you're successful, people come and offer you things. My biggest fear was that if you try to do something else and you're trying to build your music career, and then you say, "I'm going to go do a movie," and you're terrible, you can really hurt your music career because as a musician, the goal is to be cool. You're playing the guitar and you're in front of all these people and your vibe is to be as cool as you can possibly be.” PeopleIfsTryingGoalHurtCareersSuccessfulMiddleFrontsTerribleOffersMusicianGuitarSuccessful PeopleBeing CoolBiggest FearMusic Career Author:Tim McGraw
“It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you're a drummer, you just wait around for people to ask you to play drums. But if you have your own studio and can make music, you have the ability to approach music a lot differently.” PeopleIfsPlayAsksWaitingAbilityCareersEasierApproachMusicianStudiosDrummerPlaying Drums Author:Moby
“The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.” WorldNeedsEnoughLiteratureSoundMusicCareersAirMinesMusicianFilledGood ThingsMusicalUnnecessaryFillingUnsuccessful Book:Not That You Asked... Source: Not That You Asked...
“Write all the time. I believe in writing every day, at least a thousand words a day. We have a strange idea about writing: that it can be done, and done well, without a great deal of effort. Dancers practice every day, musicians practice every day, even when they are at the peak of their careers – especially then. Somehow, we don’t take writing as seriously. But writing – writing wonderfully – takes just as much dedication.” WritingBelieveWellsIdeasDoneI BelieveDealsEffortCareersCreativityPracticeStrangeSeriousHabitThousandMusicianDanceWordsI Believe InDancerDedicationDaySeriousnessPractice Makes PerfectWriting Every DayPeaking Author:Theodora Goss