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It's great to have all this stuff at home. But when you want to make it for real, there's still nothing like making music with a bunch of other great musicians in the same room. That's one thing that'll never change.

Ronnie Milsap

Change

I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did.

I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.

Pat Metheny

Work

Musicians

At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.

There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away.

Brownie McGhee

Musicians

There's Eddie's conviction and his lyrics and his ideals, and he can just rock straight out. His vocals are incredible. And we all are really competent musicians.

People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them.

When you keep the caliber of musicians very high in the band, people are going to come and go. Some of them will be people who have to try various things, it's natural.

Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them.

You know as I started as a shy young conductor, I always wanted to cooperate. To build up the musicians. To help them to be better than without a conductor. And sometimes young talented musicians have to be encouraged.

Kurt Masur

Help

Musicians

The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did.

Wynton Marsalis

Musicians

My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians.

Wynton Marsalis

Brother

Musicians

One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else.

One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.

The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid.