#musicians

From the time I moved to San Francisco in 1967 to play with the Steve Miller Band, there was a lot of support in the music community for one cause or another, but this one was special because it was put on by people who understood where musicians' hearts are. ↗

— Boz Scaggs

#band #because #cause #community #francisco

First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

#century #exhaustion #experienced #first #forgetting

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

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

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

I love working with different musicians in the studio, that's a real joy working with someone for the first time. ↗

— Bob Seger

#first #first time #i #i love #joy

I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing. ↗

— Billy Sheehan

#became #did #different #follow #i

I think the future looks great for music, musicians, bass players, and all we love about music. ↗

— Billy Sheehan

#bass #bass players #future #great #i

I'm fortunate I have this coterie of musicians around me to help take music to next level. Being surrounded by so much creative energy, so many creative people really feeds that creativity in me. ↗

— Duncan Sheik

#being #creative #creative energy #creative people #creativity

I am part of an age-old profession of musicianship. I believe these times require grounding, real-ness and fun. Let's do it. Whatever happens is all good. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#am #believe #fun #good #grounding