#musicians

Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#economically #harnessed #how #large #living

I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each. ↗

— Les Baxter

#i #like #make #musicians #sound

When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30. ↗

— Les Baxter

#i #musicians #orchestra #want

I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players. ↗

— David Bowie

#bright #i #intelligent #life #musicians

I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff. ↗

— David Byrne

#devote #friends #fun #hanging #home

For about seven years. I really like it there. There are a lot of great musicians. The scene is very open. A lot of stuff going on. People's ears are really open, they are not closed. A lot of scenes here, people just get tunnel vision and are into one thing. ↗

— John Zorn

#closed #ears #get #going #great

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like. ↗

— John Zorn

#away #everything #find #good #great

I feel like I'm waving the flag for musicianship, trying to bring back bands that can play. ↗

— Jonathan Davis

#bands #bring #feel #flag #i

The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed. If you have five players in a situation where the music is being improvised and one is determined it is not going to succeed, it won't succeed even if one of the musicians takes control. ↗

— Bill Dixon

#control #determined #even #everyone #five

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#among #angel #back #darkness #fallen