“Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums.” ImportantPlayRolesMusicianFrustrated Author:Ronald Perelman
“I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, you know, basically playing a musician, and all the songs she plays are off my record.” KnowsPlayShowsSongRolesRecordsTreeMusicianIncrediblesHillsVehicleTree Hill Author:Kate Voegele
“Some musicians play blues, others classical jazz or bluegrass. I like to play political roles because I can merge my political interests with my creative interests.” I CanPlayPoliticalInterestRolesCreativeMusicianJazzBecause I CanBluegrass Author:Jeffrey Wright
“I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that is not to say that jazz does not play a vital and important role in my life.” DoeImportantPlayRolesFansMusicianJazzJazz MusicJazz MusicianAvidDescribe Myself Author:Nat Wolff
“When you're a musician and you go out onstage, and you're someone who loves attention, you are going to become a role model to some extent.” AttentionRolesMusicianModelsRole Models Author:Kathleen Hanna
“I think my role as a musician is much more reactionary than that of the creative personality type who locks himself in a tower and then comes out with Pet Sounds or something. I just respond to stimuli more than anything.” ThinkingSoundRolesCreativeTypePersonalityMusicianPetLocksTowersStimulusReactionariesPersonality Types Author:Blake Mills
“The older I get, the more I realize I'm becoming people's role models and that's freaky to me. That's not what you intend to do when you set out to be a musician, to be a little 14-year-old's role model.” PeopleYearsLittlesRealizingRolesBecomingMusicianModelsRole ModelsFreaky Author:Ingrid Michaelson
“My interactions with musicians have been simply that: interactions with musicians. Issues of gender, or anything else beyond the music-making, have in my experience played no role in whether or not a musician has been able to articulate my intentions as a composer.” Has BeensAbleRolesIssuesMusicianIntentionGenderComposerInteractionMusic Making Author:Michael Hersch
“The only thing I wouldn't like to do is to play roles as a musician. I'm not sure that I would be comfortable doing that, and I'm not sure I'd be very good at it. I think I would be better served, and would be a better partner, if I was in something outside of myself.” IfsThinkingPlayWould BeRolesComfortableMusicianVery GoodPartnersNot Sure Author:Larry Mullen, Jr.
“I was a musician who began playing with computers, to see if they could make some tasks simpler. I developed some "tricks" or strategies for working with audio files, and then discovered that the same tricks could be applied to video files, or really, any type of data. Previously I made many different kinds of music. I did some work as a composer of film scores. In that role, my task was to create audio to match and deepen the visual. In my work now, the role is often reversed: I have to create images to match and deepen the audio.” IfsKindMadeDifferentFilmRolesTypeComputerMusicianTasksStrategyTricksVideoDataVisualsScoreComposerDifferent KindsFilesAudioDifferent Kinds Of MusicFilm Scores Author:Kurt Ralske
“I don't think being a musician makes me a role model at all. But I do believe that I have responsibility to offer people a helping hand when and if I can, just the same way that others have helped me. I think that it's important to keep that cycle going, and to give back to whatever your personal definition of community is.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayGivingBelieveI CanImportantHelpingHandsCommunityResponsibilityRolesOffersMusicianModelsDefinitionsCyclesRole ModelsGiving BackHelping Hand Author:Thalia Zedek
“I'm definitely musician and storyteller. But I always like to take an active role in things I care about socially and environmentally.” CareRolesMusicianActiveI CareStoryteller Author:Ben Sollee
“The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.” WayWellsUnderstandingRolesMusicianConceptsCommunicateRock N RollExecutionAnother Way Author:Yo-Yo Ma