Well, remember that we were all members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.
Joseph Jarman
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What is the source of power of musicians who are financially browbeaten, most of whom work for minimum wage or less? Musicians who cannot even afford to buy tickets to operas or concerts in which they themselves perform?
Itay Talgam
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I'd been watching documentaries about early rock where white artists took 'race records' from blues and soul musicians to achieve mass appeal. I wanted to flip that and do an EP covering only white artists.
Anderson Paak
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I was very lucky that more experienced musicians allowed me to caterwaul until I figured out what it was really about.
Kurt Elling
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The world that I know and the world that I come from is from the arts, and my wife's an artist, and I've been a musician since I left college, and there's tons of musicians I'd love to play.
Johnny Flynn
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It's my fault in many cases because I don't initiate the contact to talk with a lot of other musicians.
Frank Morgan
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My musical education started in the limelight, because I found myself surrounded by real musicians, but after my career had taken off.
John Lurie
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I've dated a couple of guys who were awesome, and the celebrity part of my life and the traveling part are hard to get around. You never get to see each other, especially if you're both musicians.
Kelly Clarkson
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The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.
Dionne Warwick
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Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.
Cassandra Wilson
SongMusiciansWayEverythingJust
I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer.
Robert Moog
MusicMusiciansYouNeverFirst
Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days.
Kevin Eubanks
MusicWorldVoiceMusiciansFinding
Too many people judge a singer like Beyonce by what they see on the surface. Knowing the musicians she's worked with and how she works, I have a lot of respect for her.
Dianne Reeves
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I don't do anything digital. Everything is analog, and that's a limitation for me. However, in my world, it's not a limitation at all because I don't create the type of music that would generally be created by musicians that work with digital recording studios, and/or digital equipment, as far as production is concerned.
Adrian Younge
WorkMusicMeWorldMusicians
None of my kids want to be actors. They are actually very interested in being musicians. I think they like the process of film from the outside. Mad is interested in editing. Pax loves music and deejaying.
Angelina Jolie
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When I'm making a new ballet, I usually read through the score a little bit, and then I have to go back and translate or transcribe all the counts for dancers because the way that you hear it is completely different from the way the musicians read and play it.
Justin Peck
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I have met so many of my idols - like Ray Charles, Brian Setzer - all these cats that are legendary musicians. If they had said to me, 'Hey man, I'm busy,' it would have crushed my soul.
Drake Bell
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Musicians are, by and large, not the most politically savvy crew.
Ben Shapiro
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Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now.
John Zorn
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Maybe a part of me recognized how right the improvising spirit of jazz is. Not the sounds, but the freedom to work with musicians who work that way. It felt very natural to me, but I think there's a way to do it without it being a jazz record.
Jane Siberry
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Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other.
David Steinberg
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Oberst is one of those musicians that some people hate in a visceral, biological way.
Ben Dolnick
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In the mid-1800s, they were known also as 'singsong houses,' and the courtesans were actually master musicians.
Amy Tan
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Jazz musicians, in a way, are nerds. We are so in our world.
Jan Vogler
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