Asked Quote by Rue McClanahan

I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar.

— Bobby McFerrin

Many, many years ago, I was one of the few conductors who talked to the audience and now a lot of classical conductors have…

— Marvin Hamlisch

I did the one concert, and I was not bitten by the conducting bug, and I thought I was done, but then the phone…

— Bobby McFerrin

The life of any musician really doesn't fall into a normal schedule at all. Every week there are different rehearsals, different days and nights…

— Leonard Slatkin

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

— Tracy Chapman

I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and…

— Thurston Moore

I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation…

— Eberhard Weber

I learned all about big band arrangement and symphony arrangement and writing for strings.

— Jack Conte

We just wrote songs that seemed good to us. We wrote the album in like two weeks. We could have had more time, but…

— Travis Barker

I learned the songs and played the gigs, and then they called me about a month later. They told me they were like super…

— Travis Barker

It is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain the services of first-class conductors. They are sick and tired of dealing with singers, as I am.

— Rudolf Bing

I played with the best conductors of the world.

— Mstislav Rostropovich