#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

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

First of all, I think that is true, if you are a musician, particularly on the come, that you do have to end up in one of these musical centers, some way, to be viable, saleable and so on. ↗

— John Sebastian

#come #end #first #first of all #i

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer. ↗

— John Sebastian

#father #mother #musician #writer

In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying. ↗

— John Sebastian

#copying #doing #going #in other words #know

My intention when I came into this industry was to be a musician, not necessarily a recording artist, just a musician in general. And that's the reason I went to college and got my degree, which has been great for me. It's helped me a lot with my career. ↗

— Jon Secada

#been #came #career #college #degree

I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing. I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since. ↗

— Slash

#aspirations #doing #down #end #guitar

I would practice while listening to records or learn from musicians who were better than I was. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#i #learn #listening #musicians #practice

I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#heard #i #musicians #think #underrated