#musician

I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing. ↗

— Muddy Waters

#ball player #baseball #baseball player #definitely #finger

I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted. ↗

— Eberhard Weber

#background #bass #developed #handful #i

In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them. ↗

— Eberhard Weber

#bass #bear #because #electric #first

Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and recording time, so it's much easier to do on a synth or sampler. So, we came up with that idea. ↗

— Eberhard Weber

#easier #idea #jazz #jazz musicians #kind

Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#artist #blood #flowing #may #musician

It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#difficult #finally #finding #getting #great

I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#character #choose #emerge #going #i

In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#group #i #like #long #musicians

You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music. ↗

— Zakk Wylde

#famous #got #guys #just #love

If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom. ↗

— Bill Wyman

#arrangements #band #competent #creative #freedom