#musician

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent. ↗

— James Taylor

#easily #extent #i #i think #low

I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it. ↗

— James Taylor

#away #business #crop #else #glad

I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from. ↗

— James Taylor

#coming #hand #i #know #life

The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed. ↗

— Mick Taylor

#black #blues #changed #clubs #especially

All of these people kept on being professional musicians and composers in the strictest sense. ↗

— James Tenney

#composers #kept #musicians #people #professional

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. ↗

— Louis Armstrong

#important #jazz #jazz musician #memory #musician

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs. ↗

— Charlie Byrd

#carefully #financial #frugal #learn #manage

You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when you're not making money, people think that you're a good jazz musician. ↗

— Pete Fountain

#good #jazz #jazz musician #know #making

When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad. ↗

— Trevor Horn

#been #dad #electronic #electronic music #got

I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did. ↗

— Glenn Miller

#else #had #hell #i #ideas