#musicians

Well, my musicians are my friends. ↗

— Prince

#musicians #well

Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound. ↗

— Terry Riley

#abstract #create #decided #doing #experimentation

I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

#any #being #clubs #death #die

What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

#anything #controversial #discriminatory #europe #fact

The record company started as an adjunct to that, to give young composers their first recorded performances; to give young musicians their first debut on a recording. These are all things that big record companies would never touch because there is no money in it! ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#all things #because #big #companies #company

You are lyricist, me a composer - you and I make a complete song. ↗

— Alexandra Monir

#musicians #musician

i will never say never i will fight i will fight till forever make it right whenever you knock me down i will not stay on the ground pick it up and never say never ↗

— Justin Bieber

#musician

Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and classical can only enhance the jazz. I started out playing classical, because you have to have that as a foundation. ↗

— Doc Severinsen

#classical #enhance #foundation #i #i think

We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it. ↗

— Sebastian Faulks

#music #musicians #men

Everything is music for the born musician. ↗

— Romain Rolland

#identity #music #musicians #self-knowledge #music