Musician Support Quotes

I traveled with the band for five years with Parkinson's.

I would make tea for Joni Mitchell or clean her car, anything to be in the studio and watch her work.

I like dropping into a small club and playing with some people, trying to help them get a start.

I sang and played keyboard, so I was virtually a statue at the back of the stage. I'm not complaining about that; I enjoyed that role.

When I first was trying to play the clubs around Houston to start playing my own songs, songwriters like Eric Taylor and Vince Bell and Townes Van Zandt and Don Sanders were just really encouraging to me and would let me sit in with them during their sets and introduce me to the person that owned and booked the club.

I love what Eric Church is doing. He and I are friends, and he opened some shows for us a few years ago and I would fly him home on the jet. He is a good one.

I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music.

The first couple shows I did by myself, I was looking around wondering where the rest of my band was.

I think that there's a lot of good will that exists between musicians and the people that support them and listen to them.

There was no support system in Seattle for musicians.

I've been fortunate to work with companies that I endorse because I love their gear. Whether Music Man, Dunlop, or DiMarizo to me these companies have supported me in such a way that's invaluable.

From the time I moved to San Francisco in 1967 to play with the Steve Miller Band, there was a lot of support in the music community for one cause or another, but this one was special because it was put on by people who understood where musicians' hearts are.

There are almost no takers for independent musicians in India.