Stravinsky said that composition is selective improvisation, meaning that the same kernel of an idea that you have up on the stand as a jazz musician is the same one you write down as a composer.
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One thing, when you're an actor, you finish something and then you have to worry about what the next gig is. When you're a musician, you can always write your own stuff, and I'm working on new stuff for a new album right now.
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It's very exciting. To me, he's someone who is a big-name musician that can bring other musicians along.
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I had just seen the movie 'Young Man With a Horn' about jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke. So I told him I'd take one of those.
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That's what we've arrived at over the last few years, because it's a more efficient way of working for us. Ten years ago we were a four-piece. We had a guitar player named Ronald, and when he left, Wayne became the overseer guy. I'm the musician guy, and Michael is the computer programming guy. I love it because I love playing the instruments, and Wayne would rather have someone else have a great idea and say yes or no than to actually have to come up with ideas.
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As a devoted musician and student of the blues, I wanted to document the important contribution each of these amazing artists has made to our musical heritage. I regret that many of the great blues icons are no longer with us, but have no doubt that their spirit will continue to inspire all of us for generations to come.
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My favorite musician of all time is James Taylor. He is just the consummate musician.
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I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer.
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She took over your life in a good way. Towards the end of her life, I thought of her as a mother as well as a teacher and musician. She was remarkable.
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There should be a conduit by which a talented musician gets his music out to his fans and we all make money. A lot of labels don't give residuals. We will. We will give the artists the luxury of how to represent themselves. They are going to dictate what they want to do.
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It's a major loss for all of Africa because Ali proved that as an African, as a musician, we could take our work very, very far.
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He's a fabulous musician. It's unbelievable what he can do on a piano. He'll play anything - classic, jazz, rock and roll. If he hears a song, he can play it. And he'll do it with a flare. He's got a little showmanship to him.
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Thank God she did it. The arrangement changes keys three times, and she generally doesn't like to do that. Everyone basically that night just started reading it for the first time. I said, 'Do you want to play piano?' And she said, 'Sure, I'll do both.' So she played piano and sang simultaneously, and that was the first take. She nailed it. Beautifully. She's an incredibly gifted musician.
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[Other musicians expressed their sorrow.] He was an unassuming, quiet, great musician,.. Just a lovely man, he was.
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Jim and I go back a long way. I was 22 and working on an offshore oil rig, 14 days on and 14 days off, and I shared an apartment with Jim in New York. He was trying to make his way as a musician. I always enjoyed his singing and playing, but I finally figured out how good he really was when I answered the phone one day, and it was Roland White leaving a message for Jim asking him if he was available to play a gig.
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I was talking to another musician
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With Fischer, Brendel wrote in 1960, one was in more immediate contact with the music: there was no curtain before the soul when he communicated with the audience. One other musician, Furtwangler, conveyed to the same degree this sensation of music not being played, but rather happening by itself.
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The idea that a musician can submit music online for the chance to have it promoted to a nationwide audience is the American dream come true, and a major step toward democratizing how music is discovered
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This is groundbreaking,.. We applaud Clear Channel for creating national exposure for unsigned artists chosen by music fans. The idea that a musician can submit music online for the chance to have it promoted to a nationwide audience is the American dream come true, and a major step toward democratizing how music is discovered.
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I've dated the sweet mama's boy, the musician rocker, the struggling artist - basically a lot of people without jobs.
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[He could belt out traditional blues and jazz with the best of them, but -- to the dismay of jazz purists -- he would also record pop tunes that sold millions of albums.] I'm a pop commercial musician, and I've got a successful format,.. If you have the ability to perform your musical idea, you become a good jazz player.
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When you find a waiter who is a waiter and not an actor, writer, musician or poet, you've found a jewel.
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I approach my work musically a lot in terms of the way maybe a jazz musician would approach an improvisation on a theme.
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Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.
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Students audition for a spot to play side by side with one of our professional musicians. This gives the students an opportunity to learn what it's like to get ready for a performance and to know what it's like to be a professional musician.
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