“The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field.” MeanArtIndividualBornFieldsGrewGeniusMusicianWestWesternGrassSoilArt Music Author:Toru Takemitsu
“A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?” KnowsFeelsShouldTwoIndividualSoundMusician Author:Dave Grohl
“I went down to London with the idea that I was going to do vocals over this crazy, crazy trip-hop digital beat. Within two or three months, I heard Hunky Dory by David Bowie and that changed me in one way, and I realized what I actually wanted was to have an E Street Band - individuals, not session musicians.” WayTwoIdeasWantedThreeIndividualHeardCrazyStreetsChangedMonthsBandMusicianBeatsLondonI RealizedOne WayHopsDigitalSessionVocalThree MonthsBowie Author:KT Tunstall
“Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride.” WantNeedsIndividualGoalRecordsOne ThingPrideTasteMusicianWho You ArePerformers Author:Scott Weiland
“Charlie Parker was the greatest individual musician that ever lived. Every instrument in the band tried to copy Charlie Parker, and in the history of jazz there had never been one man who influenced all the instruments.” MenIndividualMusicianJazz Book:Celebrating Bird: the triumph of Charlie Parker Source: Celebrating Bird: the triumph of Charlie Parker
“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
“I haven't had that many people onstage for a while, and I'm looking forward to that. They're all such creative musicians in their own right. They're all complete individuals. They're not just a pick-up band. They all have their own thing going on.” PeopleIndividualCreativeHavensBandMusicianPicksLooking Forward Author:Andrew Bird
“I write each song individually and each one calls for individual musicians, You sit around and wonder who can we get to play a Neil Young solo, and then you realize there`s a good chance you can get Neil himself.” WritingPlayYoungSongIndividualRealizingChanceWonderMusicianSoloGood Chance Author:Warren Zevon
“It is the individual voice, present to itself, that needs to be heard. We need to hear the process of the musician working on himself. We don't need to hear who is more clever with synthesizers. Our cleverness has created the world we live in, which in many ways, we're sorry about.” WorldWayNeedsIndividualProcessVoiceHeardMusicianSorryCleverClevernessSynthesizers Author:Keith Jarrett
“Back then and later on when I was in NEU! and Harmonia I was too much preoccupied with my own music to be aware of the German music scene, let alone following it actively. But changes which were happening with S.o.S. (namely the development of individual ideas and the effort to distinguish from the Anglo- American rock patterns) also helped me recognize other musicians within my immediate vicinity.” IdeasIndividualMy OwnEffortToo MuchRocksDevelopmentSceneMusicianHappeningsPatternsFollowingVicinity Author:Michael Rother
“The cliché of that sort of wasted, renegade, drugged-out musician of the '70s is kind of dead and gone now. And I suppose that a lot of people still keep relying on that, or some kind of image to perpetuate something that they think they're supposed to sound like. But that kind of takes you away from real inspiration and, you know, real artistic discovery of the individual.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindStillsRealInspirationIndividualSoundGoneMusicianDiscoveryArtisticRenegades Author:Chrissie Hynde
“Business today is all about improvisation, which is the essence of jazz. Perhaps in the past we could just follow the operating manual and do what we were told, but today the world is too complex and fast. Today it's all about real-time innovation and creativity. Individuals may get hired based on their resumes, but they'll get promoted and reach their dreams based on their ability to create. In that context, being a jazz musician was the best MBA I could have ever received.” WorldDreamTodayPastIndividualAbilityCreativityMusicianInnovationJazzJazz MusicImprovisationJazz Musician Author:Josh Linkner
“Poetry can explain individuals to ourselves, and change our attitudes, and help us see the complexity of the world, but the kind of poetry I follow isn't going to change public opinion directly. Other art forms can - if you're a TV writer, you have some interesting challenges, or if you're a country musician, somebody like Brad Paisley. But poetry not so much.” WorldKindArtCountryHelpingIndividualChallengesInterestingAttitudeOpinionMusicianComplexitySome Interesting Author:Stephen Burt