Musician Experience Quotes

I have had the good fortune to experience both the limelight and the traffic light as a musician. I did my first recording on my own and it was available at concerts. The second to seventh were released on small and then large labels. My eighth to 14th were done under my own steam once again, but with the benefit of the Internet.

It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass.

I lived at the greatest time in the history of mankind to be a musician.

The Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in ... Guys would drink and fight one another like circle saws. Bottles would come flying over the bandstand like crazy and there was lots of plain common shooting and cutting. But somehow all that jive didn't faze me at all. I was so happy to have some place to blow my horn.

When I was playing with Bob Dylan in, like, 1966, I was, like, 20 years old.

Gibson ES 125 was a real instrument, this was in 1956. I started learning; I had a vision of a sound.

I toured with Lynyrd Skynyrd as a solo artist, many years ago. I love those guys.

Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.

I played on a few Frank Sinatra sessions.

I've been a musician and a songwriter for years, since I was a teenager, and made my living doing that on and off for a long time, so when it came to writing comedy material, it was the thing that came easiest to me, the most natural way of writing.

The Mahavishnu Orchestra - when it came out, it was an explosion, completely unexpected as far as I was concerned. I was just forming a band.

I play banjo, and in Britain, it's easy to get away with playing banjo because you don't often see it on U.K. stages. In America, people know when you're a good banjo player, so I was really nervous about playing out there. But we actually went down really well.

After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.

The most rewarding experience as a musician is to know that I moved people personally.

I played trumpet for Noah and the Whale a couple of times.

I keep a $2 bill rolled up in every pair of boots I own because one time, an older guy came up to me at a farmer's market I was playing in Memphis, handed me a $2 bill, and said, 'Stick this in your boot.' And when I stood back up, he handed me a $100 bill and said, 'Thanks for listening to me. Stick this in your pocket.'

They tried to get me to use a pick when I first joined the band. They had certain things they thought were appropriate. I tried to adapt as much as I could.

Obviously, Iron Maiden is on a way bigger scale to British Lion, but as a musician playing live, it's just the adrenaline rush of playing in front of an audience that gives you that rush.

When you're a musician, one of the things that comes to you in the beginning that is quite unexpected is the reaction from your fans, and to the way your music plays an important part in their life in figuring things out.

I've been playing the bass guitar for almost twelve years and fretless for about nine, so I've got quite a bit of mileage in my hands already.

There are things that I am very proud of and there are things that you are not so proud of. But I think that applies to any musician.

Actually, I started off playing by ear and being around a bunch of musicians playing in the streets in the different parades.

When I started doing sessions, the guitar was in vogue. I was playing solos every day.

When I did get signed and I was going around letting people know what I was about, that's exactly how I did it: me on the piano, playing a couple of songs I'd written and talking to the people in between. That's how I got my performance chops up.

I hate saying I'm a new musician, because I've been doing this forever, but they like to put new musicians on a lot of weird bills.