I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.
But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; music's got these bars and measures you know.
We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.
Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days.
I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
You can have all sorts of relationships, but there's something with musicians working together where you can have relationship that can just continue to grow in a beautiful way.
We're not spokespeople, we're musicians.
We're all players and musicians and we sure all get along good. We just clicked right off the bat. We started playing and then we almost immediately started recording.
The collective conscience of a hundred musicians is no light burden. Think for a moment of what it would mean to a pianist if by some miracle every key of his instrument should suddenly become a living thing.
It's my fault in many cases because I don't initiate the contact to talk with a lot of other musicians.
My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.
I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.
I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer.
I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.
All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.