Musicians Quotations | Page 2

This weird thing that musicians have... it's got something to do with approval, and not feeling good enough, and therefore going out and being great somehow makes your life valid.

James Ralston, my guitar player, has performed with Tina Turner for about 22 years. Jim Hanson on bass has played with Johnny Cash, Rodney Crowell and Bruce Springsteen, and they're fantastic musicians and amazing singers they get a really cool vocal sound together.

Musicians like James Blake were a big influence on me. How he uses his vocals is amazing. And then Yeasayer and Animal Collective, who aren't pop bands exactly, but they do something that is so catchy and undeniable and so much fun.

I actually love Twitter and Instagram. I do think it's so strange to think that 20 years ago, people would never have known personal stuff about musicians and actors, but I like it. As long as I don't obsessively overshare, it's OK. And when I do overshare, it's just, like, me saying, 'I've got $7 in my bank account!'

There are musicians in my business who are very dour people, who are angry for one reason or another, who are malcontents or whatever.

There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises. They don't think that those incentives should exist.

We tried several combinations of musicians with varying degrees of success. Mostly we got a sound that was too loud and cumbersome until we found Teri. She is a breath of fresh air.

Well, musicians everywhere make up a small part of the population, so incest is to be expected.

Unfortunately, what they're playing on the radio now is not really fair to a lot of great musicians that are out there struggling to be heard.

Our musicians really wanted to help in some way.