“Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them.” PeopleShouldYoungGuyFrontsMusicianMy FamilyLaughedYoung GuysStuttering Author:Kurt Masur
“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 get the most starstruck around musicians. I get tongue-tied and don't know what to say. I'm so jealous of them. When you make a movie, you're constructing something - it's a little bit like making an album. But after musicians make an album, they get to perform it live and experience it in front of a crowd.” KnowsLittlesBitsFrontsLittle BitMusicianAlbumsCrowdsTongueJealousTiedTongue Tied Author:Judd Apatow
“I grew up in church. That's how most young African American musicians learn how to perform. You could be six years old and playing organ or drums in front of thousands or hundreds of people.” PeopleYearsYoungChurchFrontsGrewSixGrew UpMusicianAfrican AmericanOrgansSix Year Olds Author:Robert Glasper
“Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is limitation at its worst. Music is huge; its a gigantic history lesson, and if you are true music fan or a musician, you should explore it. Its all right there in front of us.” IfsShouldTwoThreeFansWorstFrontsHugeLessonsLimitsMusicianMusic IsLimitationGenreGenre IsMusic Fans Author:Phil Anselmo
“We [musicians] are comfortable in front of the camera doing music videos, and it's almost a form of acting when we're doing music videos. We're acting out our own thoughts and what we've written down on paper.” FormActingWrittenFrontsPaperComfortableMusicianCamerasVideoActing Out Author:Ludacris
“Essentially, the popular musician in America must learn that his basic job is to entertain people, to make them forget their sorrows for a moment or two; in the same sense that any popular art form must aim at the same distraction value. Any such job as that is basically a young man's business. It takes a young man's energy to go traveling around the country, night after night in a different place, prancing and cavorting around in front of mobs of people all out to try to forget their problems for an evening. And for a young man it can be a good enough way of life, if he happens to like it.” PeopleIfsMenWayTryingArtTwoDifferentCountryEnoughMomentsProblemHappensJobsAmericaFormYoungNightValuesEnergyForgetFrontsSorrowMusicianAimEveningYoung ManGood EnoughDistractionDifferent PlacePopular MusicPrancing Author:Artie Shaw
“I started out as a folk singer, and kinda got sidetracked playin' honky tonks and such, but I was always a working musician. I didn't want to be Townes Van Zandt or Guy Clark, but I wanted to play in front of their audiences, you know what I mean?” KnowsWantMeanPlayWantedGuyAudienceFrontsMusicianFolksSingersVansTonks Author:Ray Wylie Hubbard
“I think one of the reasons I'm successful as a musician is that the first like 30 shows I played, I played with no monitors standing in front of guitar amps in a shitty, smoky warehouse where people were screaming and wasted, knocking over my gear. So shows after that seem pretty easy!” PeopleThinkingFirstsReasonShowsSeemsEasySuccessfulFrontsMusicianStandingGuitarGearsKnockingWarehouse Author:Grimes
“Even as a fan, as someone who's into his performances, the Stooges and his own stuff, Iggy [Pop] is one of the people who kept underlining something that a lot of my older musician friends with punk roots say: you get into this space in your life where you feel like a weirdo, you're marginalised, you don't fit in... and then you can get up on stage in front of people who probably hate you.” PeopleFeelsHateStuffSpaceFansStageFrontsFitMusicianRootsPerformancesPopsGet UpPunkHate YouWeirdoStooges Author:Babatunde Adebimpe
“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
“The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.” FrontsMusicianIncrediblesHallsOverwhelmingIntensityConductor Author:Idina Menzel
“I knew nothing of the life of a real musician, of course, but somehow I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion.” PeopleRealFrontsMusicianStandingCrowdsReal LifeBeing RealStanding AloneAccordions Author:Lawrence Welk