Pastoral Resources

The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.

Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.

Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.

When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad.

I talked to ex-wives of musicians of the '70s for research. They're the funniest people in the world, yet there is this sad, beautiful thing in their eyes that says they've seen more than they could ever possibly tell you.

The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me.

We all feel love, and that might sound kind of corny, but I really feel that's what joins musicians together around the world.

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.

No, I've heard over the years that it's nice for them to see somebody who's like, you know, a well-known successful musician who's Asian. I've heard it from a few musicians, too.

I think most musicians do like to have a laugh.

In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.

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?

Well, remember that we were all members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.

That's Tommy, this great producer who comes in contact with people and must have a mental library of personnel who are great for this and great for that, and he brought this whole group of musicians to the project that I'd never worked with before.

Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.

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

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

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

Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.

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.