#musician

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

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art. ↗

— Izaak Walton

#air #art #curious #ditties #forth

I'm a musician because I love it and it's supposed to be fun. ↗

— Norah Jones

#fun #i #i love #love #musician

I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#could #day #different #different world #family

I have musician friends who play too much golf, and they're not as good at music anymore. ↗

— Raphael Saadiq

#friends #golf #good #i #much

I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, 'cause the people I was listening to all wrote. I never thought it was an option to sing anyone else's songs. ↗

— Emeli Sande

#anyone #cause #else #i #i always

I always wanted to be a musician from when I was kid. It was always a massive dream of mine. School was also really really important to me and having an education was top of my priority. So I really wanted to have a degree before I tried anything in the music industry. ↗

— Emeli Sande

#always #anything #before #degree #dream

I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff. ↗

— Neal Schon

#i #i am #musician #play #pop

After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this fusion of classical and jazz. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#classical #fusion #had #hold #jazz

Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with a lot of sort of long-term commitments and obligations. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#being #commitments #composer #conductor #develop