#musician

All the people I hung out with were musicians. ↗

— Hunter Hayes

#i #musicians #out #people #were

If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not? ↗

— Robert Fripp

#does #genius #many #music #musician

Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance. ↗

— Robert Fripp

#because #becomes #certainly #concept #everyday

You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the things they are discovering every time, as if it was the first time. ↗

— Fred Frith

#dialogue #discovering #every #every time #everything

Many musicians will say they don't care about the money yet they must commit themselves to appear at given times and places, and to produce what sells, whether they believe in it or not. It depends on contracts. ↗

— Lynette Fromme

#appear #believe #care #commit #contracts

What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present is elite, it is the best and all of us as artists should be committed to that. ↗

— Lesley Garrett

#artists #best #classically #committed #confident

An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#downloading #feels #guilty #ideology #intelligent

It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up. ↗

— Alvin Lee

#began #big #big band #charlie #christian

Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it. ↗

— Alvin Lee

#decided #enough #get #going #i

I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out. ↗

— Geddy Lee

#every time #i #learning #musician #myself