But I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing.

Publishing the lyric books poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!

Those little nimble musicians of the air that warble forth their curious ditties with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

Comedy is like music and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.

We have been working with Habitat for Humanity and we have built eighty homes 80% of which are being lived in by New Orleans' musicians. It is called the Musicians' Village and at the center is the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music.

But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians who are imprisoned behind these bars music's got these bars and measures you know.

I used to go to Bourbon Street when I was a kid and there would be club after club after club of people who were around when the music started. I mean these are legendary maybe not so well known but legendary musicians.

We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.

Musicians are there in front of you and the spectators sense their tension which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.