#musicians

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. ↗

— Louis Armstrong

#music #musicians #retire #stop #them

I remember once, we got an interview, and he said, 'Dad, these people are writing about me like I'm an adult. Don't they know I'm a kid?' I have never tried to encourage him to get a music image like other musicians have. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#adult #dad #encourage #get #got

I just play the music that I love with musicians that I respect, and fortunately, I'm in a position where people are willing to play with me, and perhaps I can do something to help them. ↗

— Bonnie Raitt

#help #i #i can #i love #just

Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#done #get #honest #late #lot

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

Musicians are so well covered in the press, it would be great to see more outspoken practitioners of green life. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#great #green #life #more #musicians

At the art college in Edinburgh someone arranged for some London groups to come up and play. I was in a supporting band, with Bernie Green I think. Derek Bailey was one of the visiting musicians. He seemed to like my playing and asked me to come down to London. ↗

— Jamie Muir

#art #art college #asked #bailey #band

The collective conscience of a hundred musicians is no light burden. Think for a moment of what it would mean to a pianist if by some miracle every key of his instrument should suddenly become a living thing. ↗

— Charles Munch

#burden #collective #conscience #every #his

I feel really different from other musicians. ↗

— Mary Timony

#feel #i #i feel #musicians #other

We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour. ↗

— Oscar Peterson

#every night #like #musicians #night #perform