#musician

It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of the instrument with an internal sense of rightness. ↗

— Arnold Palmer

#aware #doing #great #his #instrument

I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#car #even #gonna #had #i

We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour. ↗

— Oscar Peterson

#every night #like #musicians #night #perform

A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don't feel great about, and it'll make you feel so bad it'll destroy you and kill you. ↗

— Iggy Pop

#bad #destroy #feel #get #great

I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie. ↗

— Molly Ringwald

#band #coast #father #first #friend

Musicians playing together, it's a conversation, and ideally I want our conversation to be really intriguing and interesting and beautiful. ↗

— Chris Robinson

#conversation #i #ideally #interesting #intriguing

Now as a musician, if you have it within you, you can create your own reality. Believe me, it's a novelty. ↗

— Chris Robinson

#create #me #musician #novelty #now

The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#magazines #music #musicianship #nothing #played

There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#henry #like #musician #rule #you

I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not. ↗

— Luther Allison

#come #how #i #look #many