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Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.

Quote by Billy Joel about being

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.

Quote by Billy Joel about quiet, voice

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician.

Quote by Michael Parkinson about music

The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.

Quote by Erykah Badu about music

I'd like trios and quartets actually, but I like duos because a lot of musicians who I like playing with like playing duos.

Quote by Derek Bailey

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about love, power, artists

But, when you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the staging.

Quote by Placido Domingo about contentment

Making music, if you're a real musician, you carry on, regardless in this world.

Quote by Joe Cocker about music, real estate, world, contentment

I approach my work musically a lot in terms of the way maybe a jazz musician would approach an improvisation on a theme.

Quote by Andy Garcia about film, work

After the War they started talking about contemporary musicians - I was 15 years old and followed the programmes passionately-the first things I heard by Webern and Schoenberg were about that time, just after the War.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about war, talking, old, olderness, things, time

I talk to people who are musicians, and they go, Oh this is hell. And I go, Are you kidding me? You never put tar paper on a roof, did ya?

Quote by Chris Isaak about hell, contentment, people

One thing, when you're an actor, you finish something and then you have to worry about what the next gig is. When you're a musician, you can always write your own stuff, and I'm working on new stuff for a new album right now.

Quote by Chris Isaak about end, worry, contentment, actors, rightness, things

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

Quote by Billy Joel about poets, writers, artists, life

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.

Quote by Billy Joel about safety, experience

It was one of the greatest days of my fife, just to be able to make a living as a musician alone, to earn money doing what I loved to do.

Quote by Billy Joel about day, money

It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.

Quote by Billy Joel about impossible

Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.

Quote by Billy Joel about family, good, good luck

Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are.

Quote by Billy Joel about ability, being, contentment, life

What an incredible opportunity for a new movement of American composers and musicians - to shape what we will be listening to in the years to come.

Quote by Billy Joel about chance, americans

When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.

Quote by Billy Joel about commerce, food, money, good, good luck