In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms.

A lot of what inspired many musicians is celebrating differences, and people relate to that - more people feel like the unpopular, freaky one than the one in the in-crowd.

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.

All artists deserve compensation for their work, including musicians.

I've got a band that I tour with, and they're not session musicians; they're my friends.

The studio is really fun because I don't make it into the studio unless I've got something I really like. I love working with different musicians in the studio; that's a real joy, working with someone...

I love playing bass. It's mostly what I play in Divine Fits.

I like the way punk people perform better than rappers, because rappers suck at performing - no offense.

Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.

Writers and musicians are very similar in that the chances of making a life in either field are so infinitesimal. And once you're in, the chances of staying viable are difficult. But there is...

We do try to be entertainers, but we're musicians first, and we try to showcase the music.

I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been treated and are treated, and the fact that the music has not been given the kind of due...

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

This weird thing that musicians have... it's got something to do with approval, and not feeling good enough, and therefore going out and being great somehow makes your life valid.

I think every physiotherapist will tell you that it's not a very good idea, and there are many musicians in the metal scene who have suffered severe damage - like, the guitar player from Iced Earth,...

The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the...

I know colors like some people know a melody. And the tunes of my favorite musicians energize me when I work.

A lot of my heroes, like Iron Maiden, cut their teeth playing in venues all around the East End, so when I was a kid learning guitar and learning everything I could about Iron Maiden I thought,...

When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.

It's an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified...

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

The town I grew up in, there were no musicians to play with; it was just me. The town I grew up in, there were two shops: like, a paper shop that sells confectionery, sweets and stuff, and, like, a...

I find a lot of up-and-coming musicians I enjoy, present them to my viewers - and hopefully inflate the growth of these artists by putting them in front of an audience that wouldn't have been aware of...

My first year in L.A., I was in a band called Plain Jane, which is where the whole name Jani came from.

On Eye of the Zombie, I had so-called studio musicians.

What I found about 'Nashville' coming in is it's about these small performances. It can be on a big stage but detailed, small, heartfelt, real performances from musicians and singers. So if you try to...

There were segregated unions, which was a real problem for me because - especially as I was working in the recording scene, I had flack from the white union for hiring black musicians. I had flack...

For me, actresses are constantly chameleons, and so they are taking a backseat to their own personality. I don't feel like we're trying to show off their personality as much as let them be a blank...

I began as a violinist, not a composer. Thus my contact with orchestral musicians, with the source of music, is very important.

Sam Cooke had a huge influence on me. He left the gospel field at one point and went into the secular, and he had this huge hit, 'You Send Me.' Irma, my older sister, and I heard 'You Send Me' on the...