Pastoral Resources

You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days.

Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians.

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.

As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely.

At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The people who were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity accorded to what they did.

It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians.

On Eye of the Zombie, I had so-called studio musicians.

You should play with real musicians; the best music comes from real people interacting with each other.

Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other.

Don't get me wrong, I've seen some very excellent women musicians.

I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I certainly have respect for those who make music their livelihood.

I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody.

Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.

And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians.

You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the things they are discovering every time, as if it was the first time.

Many musicians will say they don't care about the money yet they must commit themselves to appear at given times and places, and to produce what sells, whether they believe in it or not. It depends on contracts.

What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present is elite, it is the best and all of us as artists should be committed to that.