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.
Great musicians are great musicians, whether they're playing a trombone or an electric guitar or a xylophone.
I know so many Irish musicians. They're all over, because there has been so much emigration from Ireland. Like the Jews.
I'd photographed musicians before but this was different. Syd was very charismatic, and he had the aura of a poete maudit, which made him the perfect subject for me - I realised that rock n' rollers were the modern equivalent of all the poets I was so enamoured with.
We are in the entertainment business. This should be fun. We are musicians; we don't save lives. We shouldn't... we shouldn't take ourselves too seriously or be revered that much.
I can't fathom writers married to writers and musicians married to musicians. There's your enemy in bed beside you.
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up.
I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.
I don’t get starstruck by musicians anymore, but podcasts? I’m a total podcast groupie.
It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians are, for better or worse, prisoners of Gutenberg.
When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band.
The hardest thing with musicians is getting them not to play.
One of my favorite guitar players and musicians is a guy named Jimmy Herring.
Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.
Some artists and indie musicians see Spotify fairly positively - as a way of getting noticed, of getting your music out there where folks can hear it risk-free.
I find a lot of up-and-coming musicians I enjoy, present them to my viewers - and hopefully inflate the growth of these artists by putting them in front an audience that wouldn't have been aware of them.
It's my fault in many cases because I don't initiate the contact to talk with a lot of other musicians.
I'm not going to ask musicians to sit there and pretend to play. It feels insulting to the musicians to me.
Musicians are also interpretive artists and we are just as creative as painters and writers. We interpret in a way that expresses ourselves.
