#musician

My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#father #i #me #music #musician

I wouldn't like to be in movies. Movie people are strange. They live a different life than musicians do. ↗

— Stevie Nicks

#i #life #like #live #movie

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#far #invisible #musician #painter #poet

He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard. ↗

— Nusrat F. A. Khan

#become #doctor #hard #me #musician

I'd seen musicians act, and it scares me. And they make more money than me. ↗

— Tim Roth

#i #make #me #money #more

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

So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#city #could #days #extraordinary #find

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

My musical background is like almost every non classical musician in the world. One day a special record was heard and that was it. I was hooked, started trying to play various instruments and was off to bar land to become a rock star. What else? ↗

— Kevin Johnson

#background #bar #become #classical #day