About Quote by Claire Tomalin

I had a lot of luck in meeting great musicians who were kind enough to show me things.

— Ry Cooder

It was about finding creative, original musicians. Musicians who are strong composers. Flexible, empathetic musicians, who are great individually but who also have a…

— Joshua Redman

I've always appreciated people like Graham Parker or Loudon Wainwright III, who spend their entire lives writing songs and working their asses off just…

— Judd Apatow

Musicians are very mysterious and wonderful people to me; I don't know how they do it.

— John Updike

But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me…

— Geddy Lee

I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.

— Nina Simone

I've been in contact with music since I was four or five years old through my father, because of the interest he had in…

— Rokia Traore

I've got an audience now. They found me. I didn't go looking for them. I feel my music brought them all in.

— Bugzy Malone

So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be…

— Vince Gill

I began as a violinist, not a composer. Thus my contact with orchestral musicians, with the source of music, is very important.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I enjoyed hearing people do their own songs. I became attracted to singer-songwriters. I became interested in them as people; was curious about what…

— Lyle Lovett

I was raping Frank Herbert but with love.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky