This business switching styles can't be done honestly by one man. As soon as he can play his instrument well, he can express himself, and all his life he has only one self.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?
Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however, there is a glorious unity.
The individual - man as a man, man as a brain, if you like - interests me more than what he makes because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.
One day, a musician asked me what I did. When I told him I was to be a businessman, he laughed and said, 'You are not a businessman.' Sometimes all it takes is one person to put an important thought in your head, and he did.
You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.
All he wants to do is practice and that's all he does, all day long. That's what it takes if you want to change the face of music. You've gotta be committed to it.
When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.
A musician can get lost to what he is in the session busines as it was.
The business has changed so much that they're able - we're able these days in the music industry to be able to control our own destiny.
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