“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
“Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo.” DifferentPlayGroupsMusicianSeriesSingersNow And ThenTempoComposingInstrumentalists Author:Karlheinz Stockhausen
“The Unity Band project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.” Has BeensGroupsBandProjectsMusicianUnityLife ChangingTalented Musicians Author:Pat Metheny
“Increasingly I think of myself as some strange and solitary conductor, introduced to a group of very dynamic musicians who happen to be my characters, and I have no idea how they are going to play together, and I have certainly no idea how I am going to put manners on them.” ThinkingIdeasPlayCharacterHappensTogetherGroupsStrangeMusicianMannersNo IdeaSolitaryConductor Author:Colum McCann
“I think the other thing that's important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time. In fact I often say that the biggest difference between classical music and everything else is that classical musicians sometimes shut up because they're told to, because the score tells them to. Whereas any music that's sort of based on folk or jazz, everybody plays all the time.” ThinkingImportantSometimesPlayFactsHappensTogetherDifferencesWatchesGroupsMusicianJazzFolksScoreShut UpClassical MusicImprovisingClassical Musicians Author:Brian Eno
“I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them "Our exercise today is not to use 'undo' at all. So, there's no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take. There's no sort of drop in, change that little bit". The session broke down in, I'd say, 40 minutes. It was impossible for people to work in that restriction any longer.” PeopleIfsLittlesSaidWholeUseTodayBitsInterestingImpossibleGroupsMinutesExerciseLittle BitMusicianStudiosBrokeSessionRestrictionNameless Author:Brian Eno
“I'm not a real musician. If you give me a bass guitar and you ask me to improvise something, or even be with some musicians and follow them, I wouldn't be able to do it. And I want to change that. I want to be able to be in a group and take my guitar and play with them, without someone showing me, "Okay, you're going to do this and that," because music has always been a big part of my life.” IfsWantGivingRealPlayBigsAbleAsksGroupsMusicianOkayGive MeGuitarAsk MeBassBass Guitar Author:Marion Cotillard
“I don't do album covers or CD covers for groups or musicians I don't like or have no interest in.” InterestGroupsMusicianAlbumsCdsAlbum Covers Author:Robert Crumb
“Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev can no longer attend concerts by his favorite group Deep Purple without having to fear that the musicians will wear T-shirts with Pussy Riot written on them.” WrittenGroupsMusicianMinistersShirtsPrimeConcertsPrime MinisterT ShirtPurpleRiotPussyDeep Purple Author:Alexei Navalny
“I was starting a group of musicians and we had a group of young composers in Finland back in the '70s, and the real conductors, the professional conductors at the time were not interested in our stuff.” RealYoungStuffGroupsMusicianStartingComposerNot InterestedConductorFinland Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen
“Once again, in the fine tradition of North Texas Lab Bands, this is truly a superb band. Under the artful leadership of Neil Slater, these great musicians have managed to combine small group "openness" with the swinging precision of a classic big band. Very enjoyable!” BigsGroupsFineBandMusicianTraditionClassicOpennessTexasEnjoyablePrecisionGreat MusicLabsSmall GroupsSuperbGreat Musician Author:Michael Brecker
“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
“That was a very natural process because as I was creating the animatic I added music clips as reference of the kind of music I wanted in the film. These were from musicians like Naná Vasconcelos and Barbatuques, the body percussion group.” KindBodyWantedFilmProcessNaturalGroupsCreatingMusicianClipPercussionNans Author:Alex Abreu
“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
“I don't really think of these as projects. I think of them as bands. I have tried to not just convene a group of musicians and make one record or make one gig and just drop it. Each of them develop over time. I have been really fortunate to keep a band like the Sextet together over three very different albums. Each time, the goal got more deep for me in terms of how I wanted to write for those people. So it is really about trying to develop ideas and trying to have a consistent focus on a way to come up with new ideas in music that I want to do.” PeopleThinkingWayWantWritingTryingHas BeensIdeasDifferentWantedTogetherThreeGoalTermRecordsFocusGroupsBandProjectsMusicianCome UpAlbumsFortunateConsistentNew IdeasGigs Author:Dave Douglas
“Well you can see that I'm still in motion. It happens that you share the music with the audience. That is the best happiness an artist can have. I'm not alone on stage but with a group of musicians. So the more the music is successful, the more the audience feel happy about the music. It's the responsiblity of an artist to make his fans happy. That is proposition. I'm always talking about proposition.” FeelsWellsStillsHappensArtistTalkingAudienceSuccessfulGroupsShareFansStageMusicianMusic IsPropositionsNot Alone Author:Manu Dibango
“It is a great pleasure to be performing with a big band. Those people took part in a group that played the music from the Kino Kultura album i.e. the soundtrack music I've been doing. It is difficult to organise them all and to have those people for a certain date since they all have their own obligations and arrangements. It is a great privilege to gather all those musicians at one place, especially these that I work with, since they perform regularly abroad, at weddings or are working somewhere else.” PeopleBigsCertainDifficultPleasureGroupsBandMusicianPrivilegeAlbumsObligationPerformingArrangementsSomewhere ElseSoundtracks Author:Vlatko Stefanovski
“I'm more encouraged by the saplings: new music groups, tiny new venues, entrepreneurial musician-composers who aren't waiting to be discovered but are instead building their own Establishment.” WaitingGroupsBuildingMusicianTinyEstablishmentComposerEntrepreneurialVenuesNew MusicSaplings Author:David Edelstein
“Musicians have the power to influence people and along with movie makers, they can reach and influence more people than any group of people, more than scientists and certainly more than politicians.” PeopleGroupsInfluencePoliticianMusicianScientistMakersInfluencing People Author:Paul Watson
“I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hard-core bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my performance style and a story to tell.” HardStoriesFourGroupsStyleYouthBandMusicianPerformancesCleanDecadesCoreBarsAcesHard CoreHomegrown Author:Bruce Springsteen
“I always thought that pop groups were going to be made up in the 21st century. It wouldn't be four musicians, as such. Especially in the online world, with the worlds that are opening up.” WorldMadeFourGroupsCenturyMusicianPopsOpeningOnline21st CenturyOpening Up Author:Paul Morley
“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
“To me, groups of musicians playing together, not fighting each other, but playing a groove together is one of the most exciting things to listen to.” TogetherFightingGroupsMusicianExcitingGrooveExciting ThingsPlaying TogetherFighting Each Other Author:Phil Collins
“I was a guitar player on the streets of Asbury Park and already a member in good standing amongst those who lie in service of the truth - artists with a small A. But I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hardcore bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my performance style, and a story to tell.” StoriesLyingArtistFourPlayerGroupsStreetsStyleYouthBandMembersMusicianStandingPerformancesCleanGuitarDecadesBarsParksGuitar PlayerHardcoreAcesHomegrownThose Who Lie Author:Bruce Springsteen