Musician Quotes

You’re always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that’s maybe even too weird for your own taste.

One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else.

I just play the music that I love with musicians that I respect, and fortunately, I’m in a position where people are willing to play with me, and perhaps I can do something to help them.

Audiences tend to dig the earlier stuff by any given musician, and the artists themselves always tend to prefer the thing that they’re doing now.

I didn’t follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing.

I’m not a jazz singer.

If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.