A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.
I'm trying everything I can not to be jaded 'cause I don't like jaded musicians.
I've met a lot of jazz musicians in my day, and they're all funny.
I loved Art Tatum! And, through him, and other different jazz musicians, I actually found my technique.
I'm thrilled when I hear the greatest jazz musicians. They continue to search in ways other musicians do not.
Jazz musicians have always taken the standards of their time and performed them with a jazz sensibility.
My foundation is jazz. I do all the things jazz musicians do.
Jazz musicians have always tended to have cult followings, which is pretty wonderful.
I have a large collection of biographies about jazz musicians.
This is what really makes real jazz musicians: people coming out with their own voice.
No one told Miles Davis or BB King to pack it in. John Lee Hooker played literally up to the day he died. Why should pop musicians be any different?
It was about working with other musicians, but more than that it's about exploring musical areas that you could never do with the band you're in, in my case Judas Priest. You could tackle musical areas and lyrical areas that wouldn't be appropriate for Priest.
Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
I think if I wasn't a musician, I would be a high-school band director or orchestra director. I like working with large groups of musicians and bringing out the dynamics and accomplishing something as a team.
Lately, I'm spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream - almost dissolving into another world, musically.
The Internet has definitely opened doors and leveled the playing field for musicians.
If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely starstruck.
Some musicians like to decorate their walls with discs saying: '1 million records sold in America.' I prefer to put up discs marking sales in lesser-known countries.
