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A musician's whole life is to listen.

A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special - spiritually or however you can.

What a good session musician does is listen to the song, to the artist, and to the other players. That way you can help bring out the song and help the artist express what they want to express. It's never about you stepping out and showing you can play something fancy.

The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.

If you go out and just play the old stuff and never write new stuff, you're not really a complete musician, you're a performer.

A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.

I can't even imagine how it must be to be a solo artist playing with session musicians.

If you're a musician, you're a musician; you don't ever get that out of your bones.

If you're a musician, there's no instrument that can be withheld from you. If you're drawn to it, develop the talent for it.