“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
“The life of any musician really doesn't fall into a normal schedule at all. Every week there are different rehearsals, different days and nights of performances, so we don't have a particular pattern that we can follow. For a conductor, it is a little bit worse because we have to allow for traveling.” LittlesDifferentNightFallBitsWeekParticularNormalLittle BitMusicianPerformancesPatternsSchedulesRehearsalDay And NightConductorDifferent Day Author:Leonard Slatkin
“Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.” MusicianConceptsPerformancesEverydayTiming Author:Robert Fripp
“It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of his instrument with an internal sense of rightness - it is not merely mechanical, it is not only spiritual; it is something of both, on a different plane and a more remote one.” MindDifferentStatesSpiritualSportsAchieveMusicianPerformancesInstrumentsPlanesInternalsMotivational SportsGreat MusicGreat MusicianGreat Performance Author:Arnold Palmer
“Music and visual performance have to influence each other. Designers and musicians have to be the nexus of all things pop culture, so I think about designers when I'm making music.” ThinkingCultureInfluenceMusicianAll ThingsPerformancesPopsDesignerVisualsPop CultureNexus Author:Lady Gaga
“I can play the guitar, the dulcimer, the piano, and the drums. However, I am not a "performance quality" musician. Rather, I am a composer and a producer.” I CanPlayQualityMusicianPerformancesGuitarProducersPianoComposerRama Author:Frederick Lenz
“My preference is live performance. Because you get the feedback. There's an energy. It's live theater. That's why I think actors like that. You know, musicians need it, comedians definitely need it. It doesn't matter what size and what club, whether it's 30 people in the club or 2,000 in a hall or a theater. It's live, it's symbiotic, you need it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsMatterActorsEnergyMusicianPerformancesTheaterSizeClubsComedianHallsPreferenceFeedbackLive PerformanceLive Theater Author:Robin Williams
“My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances; weve become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.” PeopleWorldGivingHas BeensPlayWifeTerribleMusicianPerformancesMy WifeHopelessOrchestraGreat Success Author:Alexander McCall Smith
“We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm.” NeedsPlayStyleMusicianAdvantagePerformancesImprovementRhythm Author:Franz Liszt
“A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.” ArtArtistSoundMusicLaughingProduceTearsMusicianPerformancesMovedListenersTorn Author:Franz Grillparzer
“One of the reasons I moved away from painting was because I eventually discovered that I wanted to deal more with motion, time, and performance - and that became a much bigger part of my life both as an actor and as a musician and someone who goes on stage and travels around the world and works on productions.” WorldReasonWantedActorsDealsStagePaintingGoes OnMusicianPerformancesBiggerMovedProductionsAround The World Author:Jared Leto
“My father, my uncles, my aunts, from my father's side and my mother's side... they were all professional musicians. My father was a concert master, he took me to a lot of rehearsals, concerts, performances, opera, ballet. For me, that was life.” MotherFatherSidesMastersMusicianPerformancesConcertsBalletOperaUnclesAuntRehearsal Author:Lalo Schifrin
“Yes, for me audio-visual performance has its roots in my experience working as an improvising musician and composer.” MusicianRootsPerformancesVisualsComposerImprovisingAudioAudio Visual Author:Kurt Ralske
“Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.” GivingCausesCreationMusicianPerformancesHumanitarianOur TimeCharitable Author:Billy Joel
“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
“The Musicians Union declared you couldn't mime on Top Of The Pops, which is obviously impossible, if you've got a studio-based record that you'd worked on for a year or something. And there were a lot of terrible performances. Because on Top Of The Pops, you were just thrown onstage.” IfsYearsRecordsImpossibleTerribleMusicianPerformancesUnionsStudiosPopsThrownMime Author:David Toop
“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
“Companies have to take risks to get new knowledge, in a manner similar to how jazz musicians take risks when they go after a new approach to a tune or a performance.” CompanyRiskApproachMusicianPerformancesJazzTunesJazz MusicJazz MusicianNew KnowledgeNew Approach Author:John Kao
“In reality everybody has got musical thoughts. If you are able to overcome the part of it which is muscle training, which is what most musical playing actually is, performance actually is, is muscle training, and you are able to convert your ideas directly into music, you're a musician, too.” IfsIdeasRealityAbleMusicianTrainingPerformancesOvercomingMusicalMuscles Author:Jerry Garcia
“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
“There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they've ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the merely collaborative or technically proficient, when their expression becomes as easy and graceful as friendship or love. This is when they give us a glimpse of what we might be, of our best selves, and of an impossible world in which you give everything to others, but lose nothing of yourself.” WorldGivingSelfMomentsMightTogetherFoundEasyLosesImpossibleExpressionMusicianPerformancesGlimpseRehearsalBest SelfRare Moments Author:Ian Mcewan