“I remember the university as being very encouraging, especially to experimentation. I think you always get a lot of musicians in any art community, and it seemed like a lot of people I knew worked on films that got made locally.” PeopleThinkingArtMadeRememberFilmCommunityMusicianUniversityExperimentation Author:Neil Farber
“Ideally the point of music is community, not the player. Musicians are simply channels to link the audience to the music and to each other.” CommunityAudiencePlayerMusicianMusic IsLinks Author:Trey Anastasio
“Parenting changes your life, it changes how you hear yourself in relationship to others - which is part of the reason that a bunch of people in the rock community are sick of the goodwill and positive energy and love between these 45-year-old musicians who they preferred when they were 25 and taking stabs at each other.” PeopleYearsReasonEnergyCommunityLove IsRocksMusicianAnd LoveSickBunchChanging Your LifeGoodwillPositive Energy Author:Lars Ulrich
“Musicians wake up and create a more loving community by creating heavier music.” CommunityCreatingMusicianWake Up Author:Cass McCombs
“My father was a teacher, my mama was a community worker, I taught in so many schools. So when you get that experience of how to communicate with younger people, put that hand on them and give them that old-school feeling, the maturity and adult, a lot of our kids just need the feeling of that love, and that's the frame of reference that I teach from and that's the frame of reference that all of our musicians in the Jazz at Lincoln Center.” PeopleNeedsGivingFeelingsHandsKidsSchoolFatherCommunityTeachTeacherTaughtMusicianAdultsJazzWorkersCommunicateMaturityMamaOld SchoolFrame Of ReferenceLincoln Center Author:Wynton Marsalis
“When I look at how fortunate I've been, being a musician... my response to being overpaid is that I should pay it back to my community in some way.” WayShouldLooksCommunityPayMusicianResponseFortunate Author:Dave Matthews
“I don't think being a musician makes me a role model at all. But I do believe that I have responsibility to offer people a helping hand when and if I can, just the same way that others have helped me. I think that it's important to keep that cycle going, and to give back to whatever your personal definition of community is.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayGivingBelieveI CanImportantHelpingHandsCommunityResponsibilityRolesOffersMusicianModelsDefinitionsCyclesRole ModelsGiving BackHelping Hand Author:Thalia Zedek
“I actually started as a singer in Brooklyn, and I lived in a community. To get out of the ghetto of my community, I was a musician.” CommunityMusicianSingersBrooklynGhetto Author:Charlemagne Palestine
“I saw so many amazing musicians struggling to build something good. They would play and play... and play some more, but it seemed like there was something missing. I wanted to go someplace higher myself, and go there with the people who come to hear me play. So I began to envision events with their own gravity, that would pull a community of people together for a meaningful experience.” PeoplePlayWantedTogetherCommunityStruggleSawsMissingEventsHigherMusicianMeaningfulGravity Author:Dave Madden
“It was actually the production group that ended up producing the show for us...Every musician, especially in the hip-hop community, you always make these show recaps or vlogs, and essentially what "Touring's Boring" was is, we tried to make our vlogs interesting and almost more like a TV show. That's how we got discovered by TV.” ShowsCommunityInterestingGroupsTvsMusicianHip HopProductionsBoringHipsHopsTv ShowsTouring Author:Mike Stud
“I had the opportunity, as a child, to grow up in a community center where I was exposed to theater, music, art, and computer science; things that I would have never had the opportunity to even meet had it not been for those people taking time out of their schedules, helping us as children to travel all over the world while sitting in a gymnasium. That's what I did before I was a musician, before I was a recording artist, I was a teacher and a community leader.” PeopleWorldChildrenArtHelpingArtistOpportunityGrowsCommunityLeaderGrowing UpTeacherComputerMusicianSittingTheaterExposedTake TimeSchedulesComputer ScienceGymnasiumsCommunity Centers Author:Erykah Badu
“The idea that musicians/artists have a responsibility to be community leaders or "role models" is problematic to me because I really believe that some of the most exciting art is not community-minded at least in any obvious or direct way, which is not to say that it is not ethical or consciousness-changing.” BelieveArtArtistCommunityResponsibilityLeaderMusicianArt IsDirectExcitingObviousEthicalRole Models Author:Kathleen Hanna
“I started doing community theater when I was seven and I think the intent was just expression. When you're a musician, you can make music in your room, and when you're a writer, you can write. Acting is one of the tricky art forms where you need a certain amount of permission to be able to do it. You can talk to yourself in the mirror, but it's different than actually acting or doing a scene. You need an audience and you need someone else to do it with.” ThinkingWritingArtDifferentCommunityActingAudienceSceneMusicianSevenTricky Author:Ari Graynor