Collaboration Quote by Joshua Redman

History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals.…

— Steve Vai

The great musicians are those who can reach people, who can make people feel something.

— Sam Rivers

Music was a means through which I could meet people and sort of begin the process of exploring who I was or who I…

— Carrie Brownstein

A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn't like that…

— Mitski

“He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that…

— E.M. Forster

Musicians are like a preacher, a teacher, an actor. You are the mediator who can transfer the energy of beautiful music to the others.

— Demis Roussos

Every time I see a film or TV show, I think about how that composer made those choices and how that director envisioned music…

— Robert Lopez

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

— Ry Cooder

Ive always enjoyed the enthusiasm of the best studio musicians and, over the years, have collected so many inspired contributions from them.

— Michael Franks

These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.

— Elliott Carter

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

— John Updike

I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.

— David Bowie