“Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.” StatesDoneRunningFunnyWorkMorningHonestPoliticianLateMusicianBeing HonestGoverningSinger SongwritersHumorists Author:Kinky Friedman
“And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians.” ThinkingStatesRunningHellPoliticianMusicianBeauticians Author:Kinky Friedman
“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
“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
“I visited New York in '63, intending to move there, but I noticed that what I valued about jazz was being discarded. I ran into `out-to-lunch' free jazz, and the notion that groove was old-fashioned. All around the United States, I could see jazz becoming linear, a horn-player's world. It made me realize that we were not jazz musicians; we were territory musicians in love with all forms of African-American music. All of the musicians I loved were territory musicians, deeply into blues and gospel as well as jazz.” WorldWellsMadeStatesMovingFormRealizingUnitedUnited StatesPlayerNew YorkBecomingMusicianJazzNotionAfrican AmericanRanTerritoryLunchOld FashionedHornsJazz MusicLinearDiscardedGrooveJazz MusicianAmerican MusicAfrican American MusicFree Jazz Author:Joe Sample
“If there is a gratification which I envy any people in this world it is to your country [Italy] its music. This is the favorite passion of my soul, and fortune has cast my lot in a country where it is in a state of deplorable barbarism.” PeopleIfsWorldSoulCountryStatesPassionMusicThis WorldMusicianFortuneCastsEnvyMy SoulGratificationBarbarism Book:The portable Thomas Jefferson Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson
“When we talk of architecture, people usually think of something static; this is wrong. What we are thinking of is an architecture similar to the dynamic and musical architecture achieved by the Futurist musician Pratella. Architecture is found in the movement of colours, of smoke from a chimney and in metallic structures, when they are expressed in states of mind which are violent and chaotic.” PeopleThinkingMindStatesFoundMovementMusicianStructureMusicalArchitectureViolentSmokeColourState Of MindChaoticStaticChimneysFuturistMetallic Author:Carlo Carra
“Musicians used to be way more instrumental just in providing a soundtrack to what's going on in the world. And it's also important to state what we think. There's like this fear for their career, if they have anything intelligent to say about politics. And that's really messed up.” IfsThinkingWorldWayImportantStatesUsedCareersMusicianIntelligentUsed To BeProvidingMessed UpSoundtracks Author:Alicia Keys
“There are any number of models artists can use to profit off of their talent and artistry. It is not up to the state to protect them from competition. Musicians can obviously get paid for performing and having their music copied and "pirated" helps them in this respect by making them more well known, more popular.” WellsStatesHelpingUseArtistNumbersKnownTalentProtectMusicianModelsPaidCompetitionProfitPerformingWell KnownArtistry Author:Stephan Kinsella
“You are in a state of mixing, and you just live with it. There is not one musician who is completely happy with a mix.” StatesMusicianMixingJust Live Author:Gary Cherone
“Well, I've heard a lot of people, but I think I would say a Brazilian musician named Hermeto Pascoal was one of my biggest influences. Through the years he mastered the keyboards. He use to play the organ Hammond B3, flute, saxophone, percussion and guitar. He is one of the most complete musicians that I ever met. Not too long after we came to the United States, Airto Moreira introduced him to Miles Davis, who recorded three of Hermeto's compositions on his album "Live Evil.” PeopleThinkingYearsWellsLongStatesPlayUseThreeEvilUnitedUnited StatesHeardInfluenceMetsMusicianGuitarAlbumsMilesOrgansCompositionKeyboardsThrough The YearsSaxophoneFlutesPercussion Author:Flora Purim
“There's something I have about being Canadian - there's a distance it gives you when you live in the States and operate in American culture. You approach familiar things a different way; you come at it from a different angle. It's a trait that runs through a lot Canadian artists' work and actors' work and musicians' - that kind of special remove.” WayGivingKindDifferentStatesRunningArtistCultureActorsSpecialApproachMusicianDistanceFamiliarDifferent WaysRemoveTraitsAngleAmerican CultureDifferent AnglesFamiliar Things Author:Michael J. Fox
“I think the music reflects the state that the society is in. It doesn't suggest the state. I think the poets and musicians and artists are of the age - not only do they lead the age on, but they also reflect that age. [...] Like The Beatles. We came out of Liverpool and we reflected our background and we reflected our thoughts in what we sang, and that's all people are doing.” PeopleThinkingStatesAgeArtistPoetMusicianBackgroundsOur ThoughtsLiverpool Author:John Lennon