#musician

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. ↗

— Louis Armstrong

#music #musicians #retire #stop #them

I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think. ↗

— Gavin Rossdale

#bloody #got #hard #hard work #harder

I remember once, we got an interview, and he said, 'Dad, these people are writing about me like I'm an adult. Don't they know I'm a kid?' I have never tried to encourage him to get a music image like other musicians have. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#adult #dad #encourage #get #got

I just play the music that I love with musicians that I respect, and fortunately, I'm in a position where people are willing to play with me, and perhaps I can do something to help them. ↗

— Bonnie Raitt

#help #i #i can #i love #just

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#creates #ear #him #his #i

I'm just a musician and a record producer. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#just #musician #producer #record #record producer

One thing, when you're an actor, you finish something and then you have to worry about what the next gig is. When you're a musician, you can always write your own stuff, and I'm working on new stuff for a new album right now. ↗

— Chris Isaak

#actor #album #always #finish #gig

Well, remember that we were all members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. ↗

— Joseph Jarman

#association #creative #members #musicians #remember

I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#came #cinema #found #get #i

We have such a high drop-out rate from musicians, said the head of the college. He was right - I dropped out before I even dropped in. Months later they were still asking what had happened to me, not realising that I was on a UK tour. ↗

— Holly Johnson

#before #college #drop-out #dropped #even