#musicians

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#around #assistance #composer #forcing #goes

When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#full #heard #i #monk #musicians

You know as I started as a shy young conductor, I always wanted to cooperate. To build up the musicians. To help them to be better than without a conductor. And sometimes young talented musicians have to be encouraged. ↗

— Kurt Masur

#better #build #conductor #cooperate #encouraged

There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away. ↗

— Brownie McGhee

#before #down #get #good #lot

It's my fault in many cases because I don't initiate the contact to talk with a lot of other musicians. ↗

— Frank Morgan

#cases #contact #fault #i #initiate

I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried to maintain my curiosity and spontaneity. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#came #curiosity #experiences #i #i always

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

People are afraid to ask musicians to be involved in projects because they anticipate being turned down. Young artists hesitate before contacting me. People in my position don't get approached often enough. ↗

— David Sylvian

#anticipate #approached #artists #ask #because

The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field. ↗

— Toru Takemitsu

#born #developed #field #geniuses #grasses

Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general. ↗

— Lionel Hampton

#black #general #important #me #musicians