Like the ability of all the musicians to end the song at the right time. Or when it's time for a chord change, but nobody knows what the chord should be, and you all, you know, it all just changes, magically, at the same time. It's when you pick up your phone to call someone and that person is calling you.
I just like dealing with scientists for awhile and then going over and dealing with musicians for awhile. They both have qualities that kind of counterbalance each other.
I always felt that the musician's job was to provide an alternative source of information.
A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?
If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close.
When it comes to touch and feel as a musician, style is infinitely more important than chops.
Classical musicians go to the conservatories, rock´n roll musicians go to the garages.
Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed over there for a long time. A lot of them moved over there, lived over there, and died over there.
The jazz musician's function is to feel.
I feel like I live in my own little world, to be honest. I mean, I love my record, but I don't feel tied to it. I sort of created my own little universe in the studio, and that's why all of those musicians who made a living in the Nashville music scene loved coming over to my place so much.
Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.
The hardest thing about being a young musician on the jazz scene is that there are so many styles of music, jazz and otherwise, that you're exposed to. The challenge is to use all that in your own way, to personalize all that has come before you and all that is happening around you. To get the music the way you want it, there's a lot of work involved.
When I was younger, I was always a musician that could play by ear better than I could analytically.
If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard
I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of light and shade, for I am no painter. Even by signs and gestures I cannot express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer. But I can do so by means of sounds, for I am a musician.
As a musician, you never understand why people connect with certain songs.
The second album was like being on a completely different planet compared to when we were making the first album. . . . Even though it was the same musicians, the same artist, the same studio, the same producer, - it felt like a completely different piece of a puzzle.
Grace Kelly plays with intelligence, wit and feeling. She has a great amount of natural ability and the ability to adapt. That is the hallmark of a first-class jazz musician.
I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way.
Sonically, musicians always go above and beyond in our efforts to disrupt radio. It's always about being different. Our radio is never conventional anyway.