Street Musicians Quotes

I got my start in small dive bars in New Orleans.

When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.

I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.

Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals.

There's a tradition - in New Orleans it still exists - where people play in the street. People play outside of the venues. Food, music, and that cultural exchange, it happens anywhere.

Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.

Bourbon Street is like playing, a tourist, you know? It's just a tourist attraction ... those musicians on Bourbon Street, they play all day. They might start at 12 noon and end at 3 in the morning, like, it's like sets, like a job. You go play, take a break, play again, take a break, then later on that night, the club gets busier, then you play some more. There's pride. They're a group of great musicians- and they're holding it down.

You don't find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn't mean to say you can't be really good.

There's pride on Bourbon Street for the musicians that work there. They take it very seriously. I've never worked there or played in band there, but it's a part of the city. They play for the tourists and represent a whole different side of the culture of our city.

I met Sonny after (Blind Boy) Fuller died, and me and Sonny played in the streets like everybody else.

I think it's time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.

The truth is there's always a hum of people playing folk music in cities.

I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again.