“Don't cheat yourself out of music. Music is one thing. The music business is another thing. Save enough of yourself to keep living anyway. Save enough joy in your heart to enjoy it. Let your reward be in the doing of it.” HeartEnoughJoyEnjoyBusinessMusicOne ThingMusicianMusic IsRewardsCheatingCheatMusic BusinessMusic IndustrySave YourselfCheating Yourself Author:Bill Withers
“Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.” WellsOne ThingMusician Author:Mick Jagger
“Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride.” WantNeedsIndividualGoalRecordsOne ThingPrideTasteMusicianWho You ArePerformers Author:Scott Weiland
“I think people who basically do one thing like Eric Clapton is great. But I've always enjoyed playing different kinds of music and playing with different kinds of musicians because I find that really interesting, like learning and working with Kip Hanrahan. There's a great conga player called Milton Cardona and he taught me a lot of the nuances, he's a Santeria Priest and so he knows his onions as it were.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindDifferentInterestingPlayerOne ThingTaughtMusicianEnjoyedPriestsDifferent KindsReally InterestingNuanceEricOnionsMiltonDifferent Kinds Of MusicCongas Author:Jack Bruce
“As a musician, I don't have one thing that's "my thing." I like to create, and have a lot of outlets for it. Dustin Hoffman is one of the guys that sets a model for me, because of how good he is at being such different characters. Every time you see DeNiro, he's pretty much DeNiro - great, but DeNiro. Hoffman is different every time, depending on his character. That's how I see myself as a performer.” DifferentCharacterGuyOne ThingMusicianModelsJazzPerformersOutletsDifferent Characters Author:Chick Corea
“I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.” TryingOne ThingMusicianEntertainers Author:Miles Davis
“If the records that I make have one thing in common, it's that there is little recapitulation, and the idea is that it should end in a place very different from where it began, and that you've heard musicians undergo a change or be irreversibly transformed.” IfsShouldLittlesIdeasDifferentEndsCommonRecordsOne ThingHeardMusicianTransformedRecapitulation Author:David Grubbs
“I don't understand why we have to experiment with film. I think everything should be done on paper. A musician has to do it, a composer. He puts a lot of dots down and beautiful music comes out. And I think that students should be taught to visualize. That's the one thing missing in all this. The one thing that the student has got to do is to learn that there is a rectangle up there - a white rectangle in a theater - and it has to be filled.” ThinkingShouldDoneBeautifulFilmWhiteOne ThingMissingStudentsTaughtPaperMusicianTheaterDown AndFilledExperimentsComposerDotsBeautiful MusicRectangles Author:Alfred Hitchcock
“I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that whether it's Indian or it's Western. But in India, I think it's limited to filler music unfortunately. That's one thing I want to push in India where we have the infrastructure of an orchestra where you play Indian melodies with an orchestra and something different for a universal audience. It requires a lot of work from me.” ThinkingWantDifferentPlayWholeTogetherCultureAudienceOne ThingMusicianUniversalIndiaWesternIndianMelodyOrchestraInfrastructureClassical MusicFillersPlaying Together Author:A. R. Rahman
“One thing about Kurt [Cobain] is before he was a musician, and before he was a rock star, he was an artist, and an artist with a capital A. What that means is that he had to create. It wasn't something that he chose to do - it chose him.” MeanArtistStarsOne ThingRocksMusicianRock StarCobain Author:Brett Morgen
“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