“Most things in my life I had before leaving home. Values, support, great family. I was shaped at an early age. A musician playing guitar, I wanted to be a folk singer.” HomeAgeWantedValuesSupportMusicianGuitarLeavingFolksSingersPlaying GuitarGreat FamilyLeaving Home Author:Sissy Spacek
“In 1992 I was doing one of my first ever tours and I was in Heathrow airport and I saw these middle-aged musicians who had clearly been on tour for decades, and they all looked haggard and unhappy and unhealthy. I vowed to myself that I would never be that person. Flash forward 20 years and I found myself in Heathrow looking haggard and unhappy and unhealthy. I decided I would rather spend my time staying home working on music and making dinner with friends, instead of spending six months in a hotel in a state of depressing suspended adolescence.” YearsFirstsPersonsStatesHomeFoundSawsMiddleMonthsSixMusicianDecidedDinnerSpendingDecadesUnhappyMy TimeHotelStayingFlashDepressingAdolescenceSix MonthsAirportsUnhealthySuspendedMiddle AgedHaggardDinner With Friends Author:Moby
“Indie record stores are as important to a touring musician as an incredible thrift store. I can't overstate how good it feels to place an original pressing of 'veedon fleece' in your most underused of shirts and pack it into your suitcase, anxiously awaiting the day you get home so that you can play it as though it was your reward or trophy from the long journey you had just finished embarking on.” FeelsLongI CanImportantPlayHomeRecordsJourneyMusicianOriginalsRewardsIncrediblesFinishedStoresShirtsPacksTouringTrophiesThriftSuitcasesLong JourneyRecord StoresFleeceEmbarking Author:Nate Ruess
“Okay, you can stay at home and Spotify, or YouTube, or you can get off your ass and come listen to what real musicians making real music sound like. And, hey, it doesn't have to be me, but if I'm in town, then yeah, you should definitely check me out.” IfsShouldRealHomeSoundMusicianOkayTownsYeahChecksAssHeyYoutubeStay At HomeReal MusicSpotify Author:Nicholas Payton
“I had to run away from home in order to be a musician. Because I came from a family of... my father was a health inspector; my mother was a social worker. And I was pretty smart in school. So they expected me to be some kind of academic - schoolteacher, or doctor, lawyer - and they were very disappointed when I told them I wanted to be a musician.” KindHomeRunningWantedSchoolMotherOrderFatherSocialMusicianSmartDoctorsWorkersExpectedLawyerDisappointedRunning AwayAcademicSocial WorkerAway From HomeInspectors Author:Hugh Masekela
“When I came to New York, to Brooklyn, I met Alvin Ailey and Stanley Crouch and August Wilson. They were always putting things in a philosophical context. All the great jazz musicians did, too. There was always a sub-context to what they were saying about music even though they would be very down home and earthy. So I started to develop, in addition to my power and ability to simply hear, a way to place myself in a time.” WayHomeWould BeAbilityNew YorkMetsMusicianPhilosophicalJazzJazz MusicBrooklynAugustWilsonStanleyJazz Musician Author:Wynton Marsalis
“The jazz guitarist Peter Sprague calls his home recording studio SpragueLand, but sometimes it seems that the moniker better captures the way he has turned the entire southland into his own musical playground. Sprague is a highly versatile musician who draws on the wellsprings of jazz and Brazilian music as primary influences.” WaySometimesHomeSeemsInfluenceMusicianDrawsJazzMusicalStudiosPrimariesCapturePeterGuitaristPlaygroundsVersatileRecording StudioWellspringBrazilian Music Author:Andrew S. Gilbert
“I didn't want to be a sideman. My own style was coming out and I was into my own writing. I wrote a whole album, I arranged it all with pencil and paper. I did eventually do a lot of work with my father, but that was different. I was living at home; I wasn't a starving musician. I wasn't spoiled, but I wasn't going to have some producer come in and tell me what to play.” WantWritingDifferentPlayWholeHomeFatherMy OwnStylePaperMusicianAlbumsProducersComing OutPencilsStarvingSpoiledMy Own Style Author:Shuggie Otis
“As I've learned in the past few years, Mali is home to some of the most incredible musicians in the world.” WorldYearsHomePastMusicianIncrediblesI've LearnedMali Author:Nick Zinner
“If I wrote something just for a musician and not for a soundtrack I would have no inspiration from scenes or from the story. It's like if a painter sees a beautiful scene and he paints it. If he's in his home it's not the same.” IfsStoriesHomeInspirationBeautifulSceneMusicianPaintPainterSoundtracks Author:Claudio Simonetti
“I rented a summer home in the winter on Long Island, I took long walks, and then I ended up moving to Woodstock. It was a fertile musical area and time, and I played with a lot of different musicians there, including getting into women's music, and I ended up playing with Cris Williamson.” LongDifferentHomeMovingWalksSummerMusicianAreasWinterMusicalIncludingIslandsFertileLong IslandLong WalksWoodstock Author:June Millington
“When I was a kid, all I wanted to do was to be a musician. I lost everything I had, but I just knew that someday I'd be able to tell the world to 'go big or go home.' The world needs to know.” KnowsWorldNeedsHomeBigsKidsAbleWantedLostMusicianSomedayLost Everything Author:Derek Waters
“I was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and am a product of a family that were jazz aficionados and also very interested in progressive politics. And so I had a lot of artists and musicians in my home. Lots of Latin music, folk, and jazz and blues, bluegrass-type of stuff. Painters and stuff like that.” HomeArtistStuffBornProductsTypeMusicianJazzFolksPainterLatinProgressivePhiladelphiaPennsylvaniaBluegrassJazz And BluesLatin Music Author:Jack Waters
“England never felt claustrophobic for me at all. I think it would feel more difficult for me if I lived in mainland Europe. America I think is really easy because Los Angeles has film stars everywhere and musicians and Santa Barbara a lot of people have homes there even if they don't live there. You are kind of inconsequential, no one cares.” PeopleThinkingKindHomeCareFilmEasyDifficultMusicianLos AngelesInconsequentialNo One Cares Author:Martin Gore
“I'm still on my demos. I'm still making my mind up and deciding what kind of artistic production to come in. I do things at home with my musicians but I would like an artistic producer to come in and work on them.” MindKindHomeMusicianProducersArtistic Author:Violante Placido
“Punk, and rock in general, is often very myopic. When people sing about "the world," they're generally focused almost entirely on the west and Europe. Sometimes South America. Sometimes Asia. But rarely Africa. The Ex, famously, is one of the few rock acts to travel and perform in Africa which, may be home to more musicians than just about anywhere else in the world.” PeopleWorldSometimesHomeMusicianFocusedPunk Author:G.W. Sok
“I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.” KnowsInspirationalFeelsWarHomeGrewDadBandGrew UpMusicianDanceMy DadLike MePostsVenuesPost War Author:Pete Townshend
“Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.” HomeSchoolParentWeekStreetsShapesMusicianBusPhiladelphiaMaryland Author:Olivia Wilde
“If I had lady-spider legs, I would weave a sky where the stars lined up. Matresses would be tied down tight to their trucks, bodies would never crash through windshields. The moon would rise above the wine-dark sea and give babies only to maidens and musicians who had prayed long and hard. Lost girls wouldn't need compasses or maps. They would find gingerbread paths to lead them out of the forest and home again. They would never sleep in silver boxes with white velvet sheets, not until they were wrinkled-paper grandmas and ready for the trip.” IfsNeedsGivingLongHardHomeBodyWould BeGirlLostStarsDarkSleepWhitePathSeaSkyReadyBabyMoonPaperMusicianWineBoxesLegsForestsSilverMapsTiedCrashSheetsSpidersCompassTruckRise AboveGrandmaVelvetMaidensNever SleepGingerbreadLost Girl Author:Laurie Halse Anderson
“This is Graceland. Home of the most famous musician in the world.” “Michael Jackson lived here?” “No, dummy,” Carter said. “Elvis Presley.” WorldSaidHomeMusicianCarterDummyFamous Musician Author:Rick Riordan
“I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.” TryingHomeFunStuffInfluenceBandMusicianStudiosHanging OutAfternoon Author:David Byrne