#musicians

It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#attention #duty #feel #look #make

This is a cause that musicians can take to heart because one of our main reasons for being is to share our music with other people, and this takes us to people who probably wouldn't otherwise get to hear music on quite this level. ↗

— Boz Scaggs

#being #cause #get #hear #hear music

I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts. ↗

— Hazel Scott

#converts #every #every time #go #i

I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians. ↗

— John Sebastian

#does #good #i #i think #me

Maybe a part of me recognized how right the improvising spirit of jazz is. Not the sounds, but the freedom to work with musicians who work that way. It felt very natural to me, but I think there's a way to do it without it being a jazz record. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#felt #freedom #how #i #i think

Just look at the Old Testament. They didn't go out with the army first. They sent the musicians out. ↗

— Michael W. Smith

#first #go #just #look #musicians

It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa. ↗

— Robert Smith

#clever #enough #few #good #idea

There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musicians. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#difference #good #lot #minds #musicians

The musicians one day are going to listen to me. ↗

— Joss Stone

#going #listen #me #musicians #one day

The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#did #expected #head #i #me