“You need to know what makes artists tick. Having been through the process myself as a musician, since I was an early teen, gave me an advantage - understanding them from their point of view, because it's about them, it's not about you - it's their vision and what they're capable of achieving, and you're the conduit.” KnowsNeedsArtistProcessUnderstandingViewsVisionAchieveMusicianCapableAdvantagePoint Of ViewTick Author:Tommy Mottola
“I remember when A love Supreme was released - I heard it at a friends house. ... Man it was incredible. That record sounded different than the rest. I was trying to gather my spirituality together, trying to get an understanding of life ..... I felt Coltrane was the first musician who made a transition from one side to the other.” MenTryingFirstsMadeDifferentTogetherRememberSpiritualityHouseFeltUnderstandingSidesRecordsHeardMusicianIncrediblesSupremeTransitionRemember WhenColtrane Author:Maurice White
“I think the most important thing that I can offer young musicians is once you get up on the bandstand, understanding that you're now asking this prayer to come through you. When you think about music it's got to be that way. Just the thrill of being able to play another note, not to win anything or get a trophy.” ThinkingWayI CanImportantPlayAbleYoungWinningUnderstandingPrayerOffersMusicianAskingImportant ThingsNotesGet UpThrillTrophies Author:Bobby Hutcherson
“I wanted to be a musician. I just wanted to be famous because I wanted to escape from what I felt was my limitation in life... And I wanted to write music, and I didn’t know what I was doing and I never had the technique or understanding of it... But I’ve always played the piano and I can improvise on the piano, but the problem is that I can’t write down what I write. I can read music but I can’t write numbers.” KnowsWritingI CanPlayProblemWantedFeltUnderstandingMusicianTechniqueLimitationPianoI Can Read Author:Anthony Hopkins
“Reading and writing music is a wonderful way of getting ideas in your head down to someone else who reads and writes, but if you don't read and write, and the other musician you're playing with are trying to express something who doesn't read and write, than it's a question of "I wrote" so that you must learn from listening and from understanding where that's coming from.” IfsWayWritingTryingIdeasReadingUnderstandingWonderfulListeningMusicianMusic IsReading And WritingWriting Music Author:Ronnie Montrose
“I've approached music with the understanding that knowledge is available regarding tones and their effect upon the body. I think the father of that knowledge was the mathematician Pythagoras who lived several thousand years ago. Pythagoras was also a fine musician and he knew specifically what tones would affect which parts of the body.” ThinkingYearsBodyFatherUnderstandingEffectsFineThousandMusicianYears AgoAvailableToneMathematicianThousand YearsParts Of The Body Author:Paul Horn
“It's been nice to have a band and people I'm close to that I can get that understanding from and help me realize what I want to do in my life as a musician.” PeopleWantI CanHelpingUnderstandingRealizingNiceBandMusicianHelp Me Author:Blake Judd
“It's like soul music, isn't it all soul music? Otherwise what is it, non-soul music? I-have-no-soul music? Soulless music? People need to put a name on something to identify it, and I understand it.” PeopleInspirationalNeedsSoulNamesUnderstandingMusicMusicianMusic IsSinger SongwritersIdentifyingMusic SoulSoulless Author:Mark Lanegan
“I heard these stories [about musicians from my mother] and somehow music, it was my understanding what my father had done. I didn't know it was misinformation. It sort of inwardly in my psyche laid the template for music being affiliated with my father and my family.” KnowsDoneStoriesMotherFatherUnderstandingHeardMusicianMusic IsMy FamilyMisinformation Author:Jon Gordon
“I find myself, the more I grow up the more I hang around creatives, musicians. I find them more inspiring to be around. I'd probably say that. The more creative you are - I get along with them better. There is more of an understanding.” UnderstandingCreativeGrowing UpMusician Author:Tom Odell
“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
“They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.” LifeMeanUnderstandingEventsLife PhilosophyMusicianUnfortunateAspects Of LifeEvents In LifeUnfortunate Events Author:Daniel Handler