“I started singing Folksongs with my mother when I was 6 years old. We sang at Folk festivals and concerts and schools. There was always music being played either on record, Jazz and Folk, by musician friends of my mother. I took to singing very early, I believe it has been a Gift I was born with.” YearsBelieveHas BeensSchoolMotherI BelieveBornRecordsMusicianMusic IsSingingJazzFolksConcertsFestivalsBeing Played Author:Vicki Sue Robinson
“One thing I always found hard to stomach over the past few years is that being a DJ or musician is a career opportunity.” YearsHardPastFoundOpportunityCareersOne ThingMusicianStomachOver The PastDjsCareer Opportunities Author:Erol Alkan
“It feels like we've grown enough as musicians over the last few years to go new places, and our conceptual and compositional abilities have developed along with it, so we're pushing all the envelopes we can at the same time and it still feels like cutting edge work to us. It seems to resonate with people.” PeopleFeelsYearsStillsEnoughSeemsLastsAbilityCuttingMusicianEdgesPushingEnvelopesNew PlacesCutting Edge Author:Bent Saether
“Most of the EDM tracks right now are not very musical, they have one note that keeps playing. You really don't need to be a musician to do records like this, so I think me playing guitar for so many years and listening to rock 'n' roll and real music helps me when I work with vocalists like Lana Del Ray and Miley Cyrus.” ThinkingNeedsYearsRealHelpingRecordsRocksListeningRight NowMusicianNotesGuitarMusicalTrackHelp MeRaysRock N RollPlaying GuitarVocalistReal MusicMileyEdm Author:Cedric Gervais
“My life has had a lot of fits and starts: before I studied literature at all I was a musician, and began undergrad as a conservatory student. I started studying literature in my third year of college, when I took a poetry course with James Longenbach that was pretty extraordinary. It changed my life.” YearsCoursesLiteratureStudyChangedStudentsCollegeFitMusicianThirdsExtraordinaryChanged My LifeConservatoryStudying Literature Author:Garth Greenwell
“It was more about getting together with other musicians and playing live. I needed to suss out a full set [for the Last Summer tour], and I didn't want to play Fiery Furnaces material. So half of our set was new songs that we ended up recording for this album. And that made such a huge difference - going into the studio after playing a song for two years, knowing it inside-out and having sung it millions of times, and then recording it is a totally satisfying experience. You're suddenly in this controlled environment and you can make it sound exactly as you've been imagining it.” WantYearsMadeTwoPlayTogetherLastsSongSoundDifferencesHalfMillionsKnowingEnvironmentMaterialsHugeNeededSummerMusicianAlbumsStudiosTwo YearsControlledSatisfyingFieryFurnacesNew SongsLast Summer Author:Eleanor Friedberger
“Learning how to record has been super empowering for me, because I spent so many years going into the studio and watching other people do it. I guess a lot of musicians have gone through this because now recording is really available for everybody.” PeopleYearsHas BeensGoneRecordsMusicianStudiosAvailableEmpowering Author:Julia Kent
“We're genuinely happy if some musicians of this younger generation are influenced by our music, as we were ourselves influenced 10 years ago by older musicians.” IfsYearsGenerationsMusicianYears AgoYounger Generation Author:Thomas Bangalter
“My brother is the lifelong musician, he made the choice to do that when we were very, very young kids. I remember him playing in bands and listening to the music he was writing in the house - he's nine years older than me.” WritingYearsMadeKidsRememberYoungChoicesHouseBrotherListeningBandMusicianNineMy BrotherLifelongNine Years Author:Kevin Bacon
“I think that it's fear. The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions. If you're 22 years old and you can't believe you're even in the position to have a career making music, the first thing you're going to think is: Maintain. Don't lose it. And that's precisely what causes you to lose everything.” IfsThinkingKnowsYearsFirstsBelieveEnoughSeemsCausesLosesCareersPositionMusician Author:Steven Soderbergh
“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 didn't finish high school, but I went to a special school for producers and musicians, a three year course for engineering, producing and learning all the tricks. So now I have my producing degree and certification.” YearsSchoolThreeCoursesSpecialDegreesMusicianHigh SchoolTricksProducersThree YearsEngineering Author:Martin Garrix
“In London, the most, the biggest thing we have is culture, you know what I mean? That's what we've done for the past 50, 60 100 years, this is what we've done. My worry is that that will change but actually, that will never change because musicians will just go somewhere else.” KnowsYearsMeanDonePastCultureWorryMusicianLondonSomewhere ElseNever Change Author:Kate Tempest
“Music reflects the time that it's being made in, and so certainly, the music that's being made in 1986 by a 14-year-old kid will reflect some magic of 1986 for him if he's an inspired and creative musician.” IfsYearsMadeKidsCreativeMagicMusicianInspired Author:Chrissie Hynde
“I was co-editor of the magazine called The Jazz Review, which was a pioneering magazine because it was the only magazine, then or now, in which all the articles were written by musicians, by jazz men. They had been laboring for years under the stereotype that they weren't very articulate except when they picked up their horn.” MenYearsWrittenMusicianJazzMagazinesEditorsReviewsArticlesStereotypeHornsPioneering Author:Nat Hentoff
“I've been a musician for 52 years professionally. I do it because, for me, I love it.” YearsMusician Author:Frank Stallone
“I did, I was in Europe a lot. I would say, mid 20s to late 30s. Less so in the last ten or twelve years. Based on some political stuff and other things, I think I'm not the only musician, the only American jazz musician that's not going to Europe quite as much. I think we're seen a little differently in the world, unfortunately, than we were pre-Iraq invasion and things like that.” ThinkingWorldYearsLittlesLastsPoliticalStuffTenLateMusicianEuropeJazzIraqTwelveInvasionJazz MusicJazz Musician Author:Jon Gordon
“My attitude towards my time as a musician, is that I really wanted to completely reinvent myself and not be one of these people who, twenty, thirty years later, is trying to recreate something that happened. I'm glad that Neil Young still makes records, but I don't know that everybody needs to be frozen in time forever. I think it's good that pop music is ephemeral.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsTryingYearsStillsWantedYoungAttitudeForeverRecordsHappenedMusicianMusic IsTwentiesPopsGladThirtyMy TimeFrozenPop MusicThirty YearsMy AttitudeEphemeralFrozen In Time Author:Kurt Ralske
“If it takes me 10 years to be the musician I want to be, great.” IfsWantYearsMusicianTake Me Author:Demi Lovato
“Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago.” YearsFormSongThreeLeftGoneMinutesPeriodsMusicianYears AgoMovedStudiosConnectedBubblesRock N RollTime Travel Author:Tom Waits
“But the three siblings were not born yesterday. Violet was born more than fifteen years before this particular Wednesday, and Klaus was born approximately two years after that, and even Sunny, who had just passed out of babyhood, was not born yesterday. Neither were you, unless of course I am wrong, in which case welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning to read so early in life.” WorldYearsLittlesTwoThreeCoursesReadingBornCasesParticularBabyMusicianYesterdayWelcomeTwo YearsSarcasticIronicFifteenCongratulationsVioletSiblingSunnyWednesdayFifteen YearsLearning To ReadBabyhoodThree Siblings Author:Daniel Handler
“It is true, of course, that there is no way of knowing for sure whether or not you can trust someone, for the simple reason that circumstances change all of the time. You might know someone for several years, for instance, and trust him completely as your friend, but circumstances could change and he could become very hungry, and before you knew it you could be boiling in a soup pot, because there is no way of knowing for sure.” KnowsWayYearsReasonMightCoursesChangeSimpleKnowingTrustCircumstancesMusicianHungryInstanceNovelistsPotSoupBoiling Author:Daniel Handler
“For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians and strange animals from conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children robed in white stood with him in the chariot or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.” YearsChildrenWarSometimesTogetherWhiteAnimalBehindsStrangeHonorWalkingThousandMusicianGloryEarsHorseSlaveTreasureGoldenChainsEnjoyedTriumphPrisonerTerritoryWarningCrownsThousand YearsFleetingCapturedWhisperingParadesConquerorCartsArmamentProcessionChariotsDazed Author:George S. Patton