#musician

My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else?" they asked me the other day. I told them this story: In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, "Look at me...I'm tall, and I'm straight, and I'm handsome. Look at you...you're all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you." And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, "Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest." So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day. ↗

— Tom Waits

#individuality #music #musician #non-conformity #humor

And that's the soulful thing about playing: you offer something to somebody. You don't know if they'll like it, but you offer it. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#wynton-marsalis #musician

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

— Travis Barker

#know #lot #musicians #people #punk

I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each. ↗

— Les Baxter

#i #like #make #musicians #sound

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

— Les Baxter

#i #musicians #orchestra #want

The project which we developed, however, was for a sound piece and I was initially curious that a sculptor should be interested in working with a musician, especially on a project for radio. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#developed #especially #however #i #initially

I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff. ↗

— David Byrne

#devote #friends #fun #hanging #home

Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now. ↗

— John Zorn

#city #concentrate #got #group #hardcore

I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a musician, as an artist, record producer, you name it. ↗

— Kenny Chesney

#better #every #friend #get #i

Both of my parents were musicians. ↗

— Bryan White

#musicians #parents #were