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I realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute - unless something drastic occurs.

If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.

When you get in a band, you never consider the day it'll all just stop.

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.

By and large musicians are pretty lazy; they don't do a whole lot. They're usually very busy doing nothing.

I think one of the reasons musicians keep doing what they do and writers keep doing what they do, is that we're totally unsuited for anything else. And I for one am much too lazy.

Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.

I have never stopped playing music.

Musicians are impossible.

When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.