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

I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

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.

The greatness of a musician is measured by the degree of fanaticism he brings to his playing.

Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art.

Musicians from the beginning of time have been there to express the mood and the musical feelings in the air for whatever's going on in that particular culture. It's the greatest joy as a musician to be able to translate that, be part of something and watch the scenery around you.

One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound.

To be a good musician, you need to give people what they want, what they need.