John Scofield
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DHANUSH I was essentially raised on blues music. My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby... HOZIER MOBY Oftentimes, musicians can play notes accurately, but they don't play music with the notes. I could s... GLEN KWOK The organ was his forte, but he was gifted with all music. He'd look at music and it would be like h... DENNIS COFFIN When I started music, I started out in Puerto Rico with classical music. But what really made me wan... MIGUEL ZENON Gospel music played a huge part of my life. I was too scared to audition for the choir, but through ... LEON BRIDGES With Fischer," Brendel wrote in 1960, "one was in more immediate contact with the music: there was n... ALFRED BRENDEL My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the only music I would listen to gro... HOZIER DONALD MILLER People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. ... MITCHEL MUSSO LISA SNOWDON [Fats Waller's talent outstripped even his girth. He was the most celebrated of all stride pianists,... JAMES P. JOHNSON We met because Chad was in one of my classes, and I was looking for someone to write music with. I k... IAN AXEL Man, he's just one of our idols. I've been listening to Scofield since I was a teenager. One thing I... ALAN EVANS I'm really indebted to Johnny. He was my first musical hero. Were it not for him, things would have ... EDGAR WINTER BOBBY VINTON I think my love of music comes from my dad. I was born with an ear for music, like him, and started ... BLAKE MICHAEL Jess brought business savvy from outside the concert business to the concert business. But he also l... DANNY ZELISKO YOKO ONO I like listening to old soul music. I like Sam Cooke. When I was growing up, the first things I was ... REBECCA FERGUSON To be honest, the biggest reason I write music and became a musician was to create the amount of joy... HOZIER My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around m... MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO LOIS LOWRY IAN ANDERSON He began life writing classical music, ... He didn't actually write his first rock 'n roll song unti... BARRY MILES CAPTAIN BEEFHEART BRIE LARSON He was interested in music. He was supposed to be producing music. He was rapping music at 15. BRENDA KELLY ROBERT WYATT POST MALONE DAVID SANBORN I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but ... DOC WATSON ALBERT EINSTEIN As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of ... SAM PALLADIO I don't live in this soul music bubble. I love Young Thug, Drake, Kendrick Lamar. I even heard t... LEON BRIDGES I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer. ELLIOTT YAMIN He (Peel) was a wonderful person. He was a genuinely nice person, which is rare in this business. He... DAVID GEDGE Pun was just a natural-born genius with music, and he basically taught me so many tricks on how to m... FAT JOE Reggae music is a music of integrity; reggae's consciousness was built on a message. My music sp... STEPHEN MARLEY BRIAN ENO I think I was raised on all types of music. Of course there was the American pop music. There was al... JOSE MATEO You know how it is when you first start out. You have to pay your dues, and he was looking for write... AJ CASE JOSHUA BELL ALBERT EINSTEIN My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 190... ELLIOTT CARTER I thought it was absurd to take all this music. But it's a really honest film. KEVIN DREW When I have downtime, music is a big part of my life. Not so much singing, but I play the guitar. KJ APA But the smooth-jazz listener is not really serious about music as opposed to the lover of traditiona... JACK SIMPSON BOB BEAMON Reggae is my heart since I was a kid. I love Reggae music. EVE We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was ... ARTO LINDSAY ED SHEERAN The first person who showed me that I could be a maker of music was one of my best friends. It's... CAM ERIC CLAPTON I grew up listening to popular music. My father was a Peruvian folk singer. He played the guitar at ... JUAN DIEGO FLOREZ I started collecting vinyl since I was about 14. But prior to that, I was always interested in knowi... CILLA CALDERON One of my initial memories of being taken over by music was watching Paul McCartney on TV play a tri... NATHANIEL RATELIFF JAMES TAYLOR Shawn was one of those genius, madness people. ... But my fondest memory of him is his laugh. He was... BILL OLIVER What a man. This man has taught me so much. He was just special. Elrod was a super person and I am g... EDDIE MURRAY What a man. This man has taught me so much. He was just special. Elrod was a super person, and I am ... EDDIE MURRAY JEAN-MICHEL JARRE THE WEEKND TIG NOTARO At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened t... HERBIE HANCOCK Suckle was the first West Indian DJ and he had this fantastic source of music. GEORGIE FAME It's one of my biggest hobbies. I started when I was 8 years old. Then I went to music high school i... BERNIE WILLIAMS I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all cam... LAURA BELL BUNDY Grade 9: I was too small for football, too shy for drama class, but I did have a passion for music. ... JASON MCCOY My parents being Bengali, we always had music in our house. My nani was a trained classical singer, ... SHREYA GHOSHAL Jazz was the pop music of its day, and all American popular music has stemmed from it one way or ano... BRIA SKONBERG We are honored to have such a varied and celebrated group of artists joining Music Days and using th... JUDEA PEARL I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him. ... TED KING KELSEA BALLERINI REGGIE WATTS He was one of the greatest parts of the past in country music in this country that anybody will ever... CARROLL BAKER I was a kid living in New Jersey, who - I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so t... DAMIEN CHAZELLE From him I got my love for music, and for many years I was the classical music critic for magazines ... MARK ROTHKO I first started going to shows when I was about 16 - seeing local bands. I mean, I loved music befor... MAC DEMARCO MARTIN FREEMAN I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free.... CARLA BLEY I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last. DAVID AMRAM JACKSON BROWNE I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ea... PETE FOUNTAIN When I was first introduced to the music of Jacques Brel, I was totally floored. I had never heard a... AMANDA MCBROOM Since I left school, I've been working on my music career. I would love to be a musician... I wish I... CASEY AFFLECK CARRIE BROWNSTEIN PETE SEEGER Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was ... ELLIOTT CARTER
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When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied... 
I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in... 
It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn't give him the credit of... 
I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an a... 
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For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him... 
When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and fo... 
I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was go... 
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There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that m... 
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Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain te... 
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydrea... 
When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting. 
My father was - actually was an Episcopal priest as a young man. Became a psychotherapist, a psychol... 
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It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing. 
I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadn... 
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Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. 
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. 
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. 
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I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'... 
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Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my... 
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When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent. 
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Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving. 
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. 
Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking. 
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Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else. 
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Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar. 
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