Musicians are, by and large, not the most politically savvy crew.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We're musicians; we're not politicians or anything.
It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa.
Musicians always come off sounding a little bit pretentious, and a little bit... I don't know, hypocritical, from what they do, talking about strong issues.
Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died.
I don't feel like that many musicians are competitive with each other.
I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not.
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.
There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musicians.
Music isn't only a profession.
By and large musicians are pretty lazy; they don't do a whole lot. They're usually very busy doing nothing.