#cian

I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that. ↗

— Bobby Vinton

#band #blue #everyone #guitar #i

Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer. ↗

— Bobby Vinton

#going #i #make #musician #nobody

No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#enormous #faith #family #leap #leap of faith

Originally a record producer more or less hired a bunch of professionals to participate in a recording session, the performers and the technicians, and a music director was put in charge. That directly related to a film producer's job. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#charge #directly #director #film #hired

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#instruments #involved #more #musician #often

There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high level with extremely valuable material, motifs, and melodies. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

#answering #any #between #communication #constant

There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

#best #country #czech #dedicated #highly

They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

#cannot #difference #educate #failed #had

I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess. ↗

— Tom Waits

#anatomy #books #guess #i #i do

The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#believed #change #cold #cold war #could