“There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians.” IfsHelpingYoungFeltTeachMusicianJazzObligationApprenticeshipYoung Ones Author:Dave Van Ronk
“Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.” FirstsFeltMusicianEncountersEtcRejectedSpecialists Author:Karlheinz Stockhausen
“I remember when A love Supreme was released - I heard it at a friends house. ... Man it was incredible. That record sounded different than the rest. I was trying to gather my spirituality together, trying to get an understanding of life ..... I felt Coltrane was the first musician who made a transition from one side to the other.” MenTryingFirstsMadeDifferentTogetherRememberSpiritualityHouseFeltUnderstandingSidesRecordsHeardMusicianIncrediblesSupremeTransitionRemember WhenColtrane Author:Maurice White
“I felt that with In A Perfect World I was still kind of finding myself - not just as a musician, but also in love and in life.” WorldKindStillsFeltPerfectFindingsMusicianA Perfect WorldFinding Myself Author:Keri Hilson
“I wanted to be a musician. I just wanted to be famous because I wanted to escape from what I felt was my limitation in life... And I wanted to write music, and I didn’t know what I was doing and I never had the technique or understanding of it... But I’ve always played the piano and I can improvise on the piano, but the problem is that I can’t write down what I write. I can read music but I can’t write numbers.” KnowsWritingI CanPlayProblemWantedFeltUnderstandingMusicianTechniqueLimitationPianoI Can Read Author:Anthony Hopkins
“I asked the head musician if I could go onstage during the next break and he said sure. I got two laughs in twenty minutes, and walked out feeling more elated than I had ever felt in my entire life. The glory of that triumph contented me for two full years.” IfsYearsSaidTwoFeelingsNextFeltBreakLaughingMinutesMusicianGloryTwentiesTriumphIf I Could Author:Emo Philips
“Playing drums or music, being a musician, is inside of you. So you would always see me tapping on something, playing on tables... I never felt the need to pull out drums.” NeedsFeltMusicianMusic IsTablesTappingPlaying Drums Author:Eric Hernandez
“I always wanted to be a musician, 100 percent, my whole life. I went to school, I did music theory, I did voice training and piano lessons, and while I was a decent musician, it didn't seem like enough for me. I felt like I wanted to make more than just music.” EnoughWholeSeemsWantedSchoolFeltVoiceTheoryLessonsMusicianTrainingPercentWhole LifePianoDecentPiano LessonMusic Theory Author:Adria Petty
“I grew up listening to my grandfather's stories of our musical past. He would often talk about the orchestras that played at concerts and the musicians who played on Sunday evenings on street corners. By the time I grew up in the '80s, all of this was a thing of the past. I lived vicariously through his stories and often wondered what it would have felt like to have been part of his generation.” Has BeensStoriesPastFeltGenerationsStreetsListeningGrewGrew UpMusicianMusicalCornersEveningSundayConcertsGrandfather80sOrchestraMy GrandfatherStreet CornersSunday Evening Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
“I always felt that the musician's job was to provide an alternative source of information.” JobsFeltInformationSourceMusicianAlternatives Author:Bruce Springsteen
“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
“The second album was like being on a completely different planet compared to when we were making the first album. ... Even though it was the same musicians, the same artist, the same studio, the same producer, - it felt like a completely different piece of a puzzle.” FirstsDifferentArtistFeltPiecesPlanetsMusicianAlbumsStudiosProducersPuzzles Author:Katie Melua
“We'd be recording and I'd go down to Greenpoint where Rostam was living and track stuff... It was a busy time. I felt like in general, I was just super psyched with the prospect of getting to be a musician, that it became a thing that I would think about more than I would think about my studies and stuff like that. I still did fine, but it was an interesting time in my life.” ThinkingStillsFeltStuffInterestingStudyFineMusicianBusyTrackInteresting Times Author:Chris Baio
“In a personal way, to do with family and the father-son relationship, in a kind of artistic way with regard to him being an art student. I also studied the visual arts at Lancaster University. I then decided to become an actor as he was becoming a musician. And then as an actor/performer, we have similar sort of interests - music hall and that whole world. So, there's a lot that I felt connected with.” WorldWayKindArtWholeActorsFatherFeltInterestStudentsSonBecomingMusicianDecidedRegardUniversityConnectedWhole WorldArtisticVisualsHallsPerformersFather SonVisual ArtArt StudentsLancasterFather Son RelationshipMusic Hall Author:Andy Serkis
“My father was a musician, and I've always loved writing. I grew up in New York City during a time when hip hop music was surrounding you with the hip hop culture, and it felt natural. I was a really huge fan of the music.” WritingCultureFatherFeltNaturalCitiesFansNew YorkHugeGrewGrew UpMusicianHip HopHipsHopsNew York CityHip Hop Music Author:El-P
“I think I've always felt as a band and as a musician and a music business person, I've always felt like an outsider, period.” ThinkingPersonsFeltPeriodsBandMusicianOutsidersMusic BusinessBusiness Person Author:Amanda Palmer
“I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.” HardFeltRocksMusicianHard RockRock Musicians Author:Geddy Lee
“One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself.” FeltMusicianExpectationsUniversityCome UpBrownStood UpBrown University Author:Lisa Loeb
“There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there'd be something I'd miss that was funny in the future. If there's a chance I'm going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that.” IfsWantHas BeensFunnyHopeFeltChanceLaughingMissingTomorrowFutureDepressionMusicianExperienceSuicideNegativitySuicidalRock MusicSuicidal ThoughtsDesperate Times Author:Dave Navarro
“I knew that I was going to have a life as a musician, because I always felt the pull. I don't remember ever having to make a choice.” RememberChoicesFeltMusician Author:Steve Vai
“I'm an example of someone who never made it to university. I did have this dream to be a musician. I felt that this dream had an expiration date.” MadeDreamFeltExampleMusicianUniversityMade It Author:Eddie Vedder