“Tim Price has captured my imagination on many occasions with his forward thinking arrangements and wonderfully captivating playing. He is a unique musician made more unique because he has searched and found his own voice. Truly a rare find in music.” ThinkingMadeFoundVoiceImaginationMusicianUniqueOccasionsArrangementsMy ImaginationCapturedCaptivatingForward Thinking Author:Jeff Coffin
“I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined.” RealityParentVoiceMusicianTradeSingersCommandDefinedInner VoiceProdigiesBeyond Reality Author:Black Francis
“I just believe that young people need to be able to learn how to write in their own voice. Just like a musician, you pride yourself on having your own distinct sound.” PeopleNeedsWritingBelieveAbleYoungSoundVoicePrideMusicianJust Believe Author:Terry McMillan
“How do I do that preparation [for film]? Just an immersion. I have a musician's, I guess, ear for the sound of the voice but it's also important to me, in the case of [playing] someone who is controversial, to get the outlines of the character right because how they present themselves to the world has a great deal to do with how people feel about them.” PeopleWorldFeelsImportantCharacterFilmSoundVoiceDealsCasesMusicianEarsPreparationControversialOutlinesImmersionPlaying Someone Author:Meryl Streep
“As a musician, we should always want to strive to be better, we can always make improvements. It's easy to get comfortable and it's easy to find your voice and your sound, but I always wanted to be better.” WantShouldWantedEasySoundVoiceComfortableMusicianStriveImprovementEasy To Get Author:Eric Hernandez
“There're lots of musicians in my family, too. My mother sings incredibly well. I've got to make a record with my mother's voice on it. She sings a lyric soprano. We do the opposite. I'm a baritone. She's a star singer in her church. She always does her solo.” WellsDoeMotherStarsVoiceChurchRecordsMusicianMy FamilyOppositesSingersSoloSopranosBaritones Author:Grace Jones
“I always wanted to be a musician, 100 percent, my whole life. I went to school, I did music theory, I did voice training and piano lessons, and while I was a decent musician, it didn't seem like enough for me. I felt like I wanted to make more than just music.” EnoughWholeSeemsWantedSchoolFeltVoiceTheoryLessonsMusicianTrainingPercentWhole LifePianoDecentPiano LessonMusic Theory Author:Adria Petty
“I'm a musician, and I'm fascinated with the effects of sound, and tone, and pitch and melody and all that sort of stuff. It's the first thing I have to solidify whenever...I get into a character. The first thing I need to get sorted out before I can then move forward, before I can feel any confidence whatsoever, is the voice.” NeedsFeelsFirstsI CanCharacterMovingStuffSoundVoiceEffectsMusicianMoving ForwardToneMelodyFascinated Author:Guy Pearce
“It is the individual voice, present to itself, that needs to be heard. We need to hear the process of the musician working on himself. We don't need to hear who is more clever with synthesizers. Our cleverness has created the world we live in, which in many ways, we're sorry about.” WorldWayNeedsIndividualProcessVoiceHeardMusicianSorryCleverClevernessSynthesizers Author:Keith Jarrett
“Well the artists that inspire me were, first of all I would say Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, John Holt, Alton Ellis, Errol Dunkley, Delroy Wilson and Dennis Brown you know. They have unique voice and sweet melody and you know, good lyrics those time yeh. The music was very nice in that time still seen, because you find that even the musical part, the musicians concentrate more on the melody than everything, more than how they concentrate on the money that time you Know” KnowsFirstsWellsStillsArtistVoiceNiceInspireSweetMusicianUniqueMusicalBrownMelodyVery NiceWilsonUnique VoicesSam CookeGood Lyric Author:Gregory Isaacs
“I think right now is when we need to hear different voices coming out of all parts of the world. You can't just hear the politicians and the military leaders. You have to hear from the taxi drivers. You have to hear from the painters. You have to hear from the poets. You have to hear from the school teachers and the filmmakers and musicians.” ThinkingWorldNeedsDifferentSchoolVoiceLeaderTeacherMilitaryPoetPoliticianRight NowMusicianPainterFilmmakerDriversComing OutTaxiSchool TeachersMilitary LeaderDifferent Voices Author:Michael Franti
“There's times I've been quite nervous doing session work, such as when I'm asked to play the violin in a 'country and western' style or a 'gypsy' style. I'm not very good at that sort of playing at all. I think it's important as a session musician to have your own voice.” ThinkingImportantCountryPlayVoiceStyleMusicianWesternVery GoodNervousSessionViolinGypsy Author:Ric Sanders
“Books are frozen voices, in the same way that musical scores are frozen music. The score is a way of transmitting the music to someone who can play it, releasing it into the air where it can once more be heard. And the black alphabet marks on the page represent words that were once spoken, if only in the writer's head. They lie there inert until a reader comes along and transforms the letters into living sounds. The reader is the musician of the book: each reader may read the same text, just as each violinist plays the same piece, but each interpretation is different.” IfsWayMayBookDifferentPlayLyingSoundBlackVoicePiecesHeardAirReaderMusicianPagesLettersMarkMusicalScoreInterpretationFrozenAlphabetViolinist Author:Margaret Atwood
“Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.” WantHeartVoiceQuietMusicianLoudIntrovertSinger SongwritersPianistLoud VoicesQuiet Heart Author:Billy Joel
“As a producer, I like to bring in unexpected voices, unexpected musicians, like Watt and Joey Spampinato of NRBQ.” VoiceMusicianProducersUnexpectedJoey Author:M. Ward
“Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.” VoiceChanceMusicianJazzSupposed To BeTake A ChancePerfectionistClassical Musicians Author:Dave Brubeck
“My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.” ParentVoiceGrowing UpTeacherGrowingMusicianSingersDancerOperaRock N RollOpera Singers Author:Sandra Bullock