“I first came to London as a musician, and when my group broke up, I did 'Guys and Dolls' at the Watford Palace theatre. After that, Ned Sherrin found me and brought me to the West End to do one of his shows. The work went from strength to strength, so I thought: 'This is where the world wants me; I'll stay.” WorldWantFirstsEndsShowsGuyFoundGroupsMusicianWestLondonTheatreBrokeWant MePalacesDollsBroke UpWest End Author:Clarke Peters
“The songs, if I write alone in a room, end up being a little more quiet, a little more subdued. If I play with other musicians or percussive instruments, it might end up being a little more upbeat.” IfsWritingLittlesEndsPlayMightSongRoomsQuietMusicianInstrumentsUpbeat Author:Marketa Irglova
“A lot of musicians like to do the bass and the drums with analog and get that tape distortion that's really beautiful. As far as the digital world goes - it's all going to end up there anyway, but when you hear vinyl it does a different thing to you. Nowadays, people do CDs and then vinyl so it's everything goes; it's a such a beautiful world.” PeopleWorldDoeDifferentEndsBeautifulMusicianDifferent ThingsDigitalTapeBassCdsDistortionReally BeautifulVinylAnalogBeautiful WorldDigital World Author:David Lynch
“No more painters, no more scribblers, no more musicians, no more sculptors, no more religions, no more royalists, no more radicals, no more imperialists, no more anarchists, no more socialists, no more communists, no more proletariat, no more democrats, no more republicans, no more bourgeois, no more aristocrats, no more arms, no more police, no more nations, an end at last to all this stupidity, nothing left, nothing at all, nothing, nothing.” EndsLastsLeftNationsArmsRepublicanMusicianPoliceDemocratStupidityPainterRadicalCommunistAnarchistBourgeoisSculptorsProletariat Author:Louis Aragon
“Collaborations work when both or however many parties are the right people to be working together for whatever reason - whether it's two musicians or a musician and a filmmaker or a musician and a choreographer, if the combination is right, the possibility exists to make something greater than the individuals could make. But if the combination is wrong than you generally end up with a compromised piece is probably less than the individuals could make.” PeopleIfsTwoEndsReasonTogetherIndividualPartyGreaterPiecesPossibilityMusicianCombinationFilmmakerWorking TogetherCollaborationChoreographers Author:John Parish
“There's the beauty of the stage. I don't like filmed theater or opera because you're kind of playing soccer in a hockey game. Either or, they don't do justice to the media and you end up with a hybrid that is purely sensationalistic. Opera is a very theatrical medium that should be seen on a stage with the musicians in the pit in the audience.” ShouldKindEndsGamesJusticeAudienceStageMediaMusicianTheaterMediumsSoccerHockeyOperaPitsTheatricalHybridEither OrPlaying Soccer Author:Christoph Waltz
“In the end, I think musicians know that getting up in the morning and making music you love doesn't necessarily mean that you deserve billions of dollars or worship from anybody.” ThinkingKnowsMeanEndsMorningWorshipMusicianDeserveDollarsBillions Author:Danger Mouse
“Tom [Courtenay] and Albert Finney met Ron Harwood on the dresser, so that's how it started. It's a wonderful documentary. It's called Tosca's Kiss and Mr Hardwood told me about it when I asked him what the genesis was. It was made in 1983 and Verdi, who was rich and successful, toward the end of his life decided to build a mansion for himself in Milan, where he lived, and he stipulated that when he died opera singers and musicians - because he knew so many who were no longer playing at the Scala and some were poor - could live there.” MadeEndsPoorSuccessfulRichWonderfulMetsKissingMusicianDecidedDiedSingersOperaTomsDocumentariesGenesisMansionsMilanOpera SingersDressersVerdiHardwood Author:Dustin Hoffman
“You're always in a tunnel that you can't see the end of. But there's something that took place on this movie that I don't think we expected and that was that once we decided that the entire cast would be real retired opera singers and retired musicians... and these people the phone hadn't rung for them for 20 or 40 years even though they can deliver.” PeopleThinkingYearsRealEndsWould BeMusicianDecidedCastsPhonesExpectedSingersOperaBeing RealRetiredTunnelsOpera Singers Author:Dustin Hoffman
“If the records that I make have one thing in common, it's that there is little recapitulation, and the idea is that it should end in a place very different from where it began, and that you've heard musicians undergo a change or be irreversibly transformed.” IfsShouldLittlesIdeasDifferentEndsCommonRecordsOne ThingHeardMusicianTransformedRecapitulation Author:David Grubbs
“One of the most obvious aspects of the music to people who know jazz is: How does it feel in the swing? These are things that are very subtle and that jazz musician appreciate in a particular way. I appreciate the way Tommy Flanagan swings, the way that Barry Harris swings, the great pulse that Hank Jones and Bill Evans have - end every one of them is different.” PeopleKnowsWayFeelsDoeDifferentEndsParticularMusicianAspectAppreciateBillsJazzObviousSubtleSwingsPulseJazz MusicJazz Musician Author:Chuck Israels
“For me, I work very self-contained. It's literally just me sitting in a room doing it until the very end of the process when other musicians come in and instruments are recorded.” EndsSelfProcessRoomsMusicianSittingInstrumentsSelf Contained Author:Steven Price
“My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a deal for the sake of other members of my group when I shouldn't have, because I was right in the end.” EndsArtistCertainDecisionDealsGroupsWorstMembersMusicianAspectIndependentSakeCompromiseBest BusinessBusiness Decisions Author:Ziggy Marley
“Bourbon Street is like playing, a tourist, you know? It's just a tourist attraction ... those musicians on Bourbon Street, they play all day. They might start at 12 noon and end at 3 in the morning, like, it's like sets, like a job. You go play, take a break, play again, take a break, then later on that night, the club gets busier, then you play some more. There's pride. They're a group of great musicians- and they're holding it down.” KnowsEndsPlayMightJobsNightBreakMorningGroupsStreetsPrideMusicianClubsAttractionNew OrleansTouristsNoonGreat MusicGreat MusicianBourbonBusierBourbon Street Author:Troy Andrews
“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.” EndsArtistParentDifficultMusicianMy FriendsSingle Parent Author:Shirley Manson
“First of all I think that is true, if you are a musician, particularly on the comeback that you do have to end up in one of these musical centers somewhere to be viable, salable and so on.” IfsThinkingWayFirstsEndsMusicianMusical Author:John Sebastian
“The human genome will not help us to understand the spiritual side of humankind, or to know who God is or what love is. The well-heeled couple who decide they want to use genetics to have a child that is a gifted musician may end up with a sullen adolescent who smokes marijuana and doesn't talk to them.” KnowsWantHumansWellsMayChildrenEndsHelpingUseSpiritualSidesLove IsCoupleMusicianSmokeMarijuanaHumankindGiftedGeneticsSullenGenomeWho God Is Author:Francis Collins
“A lot of people live with no apparent means of support. I kind of envy the musicians up there. You're down here, busting your ass in Hollywood, and it's like Lily Tomlin's joke about the rat race - all you prove in the end is that you're a rat.” PeopleKindMeanEndsRaceSupportProveMusicianJokesHollywoodEnvyAssRatsLiliesRat RaceBusting Author:Kurt Voss
“I always end up working with people that do a really good job, so I'm the only one that I'm worried about disappointing me, not the musicians ever.” PeopleEndsJobsMusicianWorriedGood JobDisappointing Author:Neko Case
“Like the ability of all the musicians to end the song at the right time. Or when it's time for a chord change, but nobody knows what the chord should be, and you all, you know, it all just changes, magically, at the same time. It's when you pick up your phone to call someone and that person is calling you.” KnowsShouldPersonsEndsSongAbilityCallingMusicianPicksPhonesRight TimeChordsNobody KnowsKnow It All Author:Larkin Grimm
“I don't like to criticize music and I had a really hard time picking out the song I hate for this because I end up seeing and working with musicians all the time.” EndsHardHateSongSeeingMusicianI HateHard TimesCriticize Author:Margaret Cho
“Now, by and large, people are recording material to put on YouTube. I have a theory that YouTube is, in the end, the #1 media for musicians. Which is strange, because there's a visual associated with it.” PeopleEndsMediaStrangeMaterialsTheoryMusicianVisualsYoutube Author:Travis Morrison
“In the end it is the musician who actually plays the notes. The impresario - or the project leader - is only there to make sure that happens. That is a very different type of management mind-set.” MindDifferentEndsPlayHappensLeaderTypeProjectsMusicianManagementNotesMind Set Author:John Kao
“If we want to be musicians, dancers or sportspeople, we can download a certain amount and watch DVDs and read books, but in the end we need someone to assess us and give us personal instruction. The two go together.” IfsWantNeedsGivingTwoBookEndsTogetherCertainWatchesAmountMusicianDancerInstructionDvdsDownloads Author:Tenzin Palmo
“I have a food show.It's not just baseball people. It's a mixture of baseball people, actors, musicians, chefs and whatnot. They bring out different dishes, and at the end of the show, I give the one I like the most the "Fielder's choice." It's good TV.” PeopleGivingDifferentEndsShowsChoicesActorsTvsMusicianBaseballDishesChefMixtures Author:Prince Fielder
“Many of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives to try to become pertinent. And, at the end of the day, they never became pop stars. I counter stated that very strongly, and I continue to do that.” TryingEndsStarsMusicianPopsObjectivesThe End Of The DayAbandonedAestheticPop StarsPertinentAnd At The End Of The DayGreatest Musician Author:Wynton Marsalis