“My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.” ReasonOpportunityStuffDesignMusicianTrainingEngineersSynthesizers Author:Robert Moog
“When you have the opportunity to make music with great musicians, take it. That's it. That's the only reason I need, really.” NeedsReasonOpportunityMusicianGreat MusicGreat Musician Author:Joss Stone
“I get so much from having the opportunity to interface with the younger people and to bring information to them and to represent our culture and our way of life. The feeling and the warmth and the love, it's unbelievable. The type of exchange that goes on between students and teachers or visiting people who are doing master classes, and not just when they're musicians. Even general classes, when the students are not necessarily musicians.” PeopleWayFeelingsCultureOpportunityClassTeacherInformationStudentsMastersTypeGoes OnMusicianWarmthUnbelievableVisitingInterfacesTeacher And Student Author:Wynton Marsalis
“As comedians, we have the opportunity to convey a message that will have an effect. The best can make you laugh and cry, the way musicians and actors can.” WayActorsOpportunityLaughingEffectsCryMessagesMusicianComedianMake You Laugh Author:Jay Pharoah
“Amazon has included me in an opportunity to provide top-shelf television-style programming live on the world's computer screens. To hold forth with the industry's very best actors, directors, musicians, authors - I'm thrilled to be on the cutting edge of this.” WorldActorsOpportunityCuttingStyleTelevisionIndustryDirectorsComputerMusicianEdgesScreensProgrammingShelvesAmazonCutting EdgeComputer Screen Author:Bill Maher
“Playing the Opry, when I get the opportunity - it's one of the coolest honors for any musician in any genre, but especially for a country musician.” CountryOpportunityHonorMusicianGenre Author:Charlie Worsham
“One thing I always found hard to stomach over the past few years is that being a DJ or musician is a career opportunity.” YearsHardPastFoundOpportunityCareersOne ThingMusicianStomachOver The PastDjsCareer Opportunities Author:Erol Alkan
“I'm in a position I never imagined I'd be in as a musician. Bob Dylan built an audience through recording and live shows. The opportunities for an artist today are totally different.” DifferentShowsTodayArtistOpportunityAudiencePositionMusicianBuiltBobDylan Author:Ben Sollee
“I had the opportunity, as a child, to grow up in a community center where I was exposed to theater, music, art, and computer science; things that I would have never had the opportunity to even meet had it not been for those people taking time out of their schedules, helping us as children to travel all over the world while sitting in a gymnasium. That's what I did before I was a musician, before I was a recording artist, I was a teacher and a community leader.” PeopleWorldChildrenArtHelpingArtistOpportunityGrowsCommunityLeaderGrowing UpTeacherComputerMusicianSittingTheaterExposedTake TimeSchedulesComputer ScienceGymnasiumsCommunity Centers Author:Erykah Badu
“People equate job titles to levels of creativity. We think that musicians are creative while accountants are not. Job title has nothing to do with human creativity. In fact, we all have enormous creative potential. Even those that often state with authority that "I'm not creative." With a systematic approach to building creative capacity, we all have the opportunity to create and leave a mark on the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldOpportunityCreativityCreativeBuildingAuthorityMusician Author:Josh Linkner
“It doesn't matter if it's jazz or not. It's about how we listen, how we interact, how we guide our attention when we're listening, and how we can refine what we're doing musically. Also how we can create our own music, and what opportunities that can bring us, as creative musicians. And then insisting that musicians put themselves through an intellectually rigorous process, which involves a lot of reading and writing, while insisting that music scholars think about ethics.” ThinkingWritingReadingOpportunityAttentionCreativeListeningMusicianEthicsJazzScholarReading And Writing Author:Vijay Iyer
“You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more” InspirationalNeedsShowsOpportunityDoorsMusicianHundredOpeningPainterSinger SongwritersOverlookedOpportunity KnocksEye OpeningWindow Of Opportunity Author:Bob Dylan