Musician Quotes

You never know what you find once you really get going.

The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.

The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.

The band couldn't have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst.

Still for fun, I play the drums, but I don't do much recording with them.

My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer.

It's not really that I didn't want to perform at all. What I didn't want to do was try to put together a band, rehearse, on my own. You know what I mean?

It was very hard to get any records, so the only source for us to really hear what was happening was listening to the Voice of America. We would be taping all the broadcast and then sharing the tapes and talking about it.

I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years.

I'm so far removed from live playing any more.

I spent well over a year on the road with Sarah Vaughn. That was amazing.

Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.

Emotions are the fuel to really move you along - that's the only way you can create music. If you don't feel any emotions, it's not going to happen.

We're all grown women now; if we wanna do something, we can't be stopped!

If I like it, it's gonna be on my album. You can't please everyone.

I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that.

I love anything quiz related.

Every four weeks I go up a bra size... it's worth being pregnant just for the breasts.

Each time I've gone to the studio, the songs have got better and I've got more confident.

Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.

We incorporate various electronic devices - the echo plugs and things like that. Actually, all we're trying to do is make that sound musical. As opposed to just making sounds, we do musical things with them.

The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it.

Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry.

My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players.

Mentally and physically, I find I can play with these people.

Luckily, I'm in the position now of being able to play purely because I have the desire to do so.

In fact, I had to make an enormous adjustment to this, not only in listening to it but in playing with it. It's a full sound. In some instances, you must have the volume to get the effect.

I've been a little more fortunate, perhaps, than a lot of people have, for the simple reason that I've constantly been moving: so nobody can hit me - you know what I mean? Protesting is not the answer - not along those lines.

I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music.

I have a company in New York City producing music for commercials, for radio, TV, features, etc. That's how I've been making my living. And now the company is very successful - to the extent that I can afford to come out and play.