{"id":3068,"date":"2011-11-05T00:17:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T07:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=3068"},"modified":"2011-11-04T23:18:45","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T06:18:45","slug":"compatible-quotes-on-being-a-musician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/11\/compatible-quotes-on-being-a-musician\/","title":{"rendered":"Compatible Quotes: On Being A Musician"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>If I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t play music, what am I gonna do? Music keeps people sane. When you enjoy yourself, most of the time the people who are listening to you enjoy it<\/em>.&#151;Zoot Sims<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>My life has always been my music, it&#8217;s always come first, but the music ain&#8217;t worth nothing if you can&#8217;t lay it on the public. The main thing is to live for that audience, &#8217;cause what you&#8217;re there for is to please the people<\/em>.&#151;Louis Armstrong<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>I&#8217;ve never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.<\/em>&#151;Virgil Thomson<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t play music, what am I gonna do? Music keeps people sane. When you enjoy yourself, most of the time the people who are listening to you enjoy it.&#151;Zoot Sims My life has always been my music, it&#8217;s always come first, but the music ain&#8217;t worth nothing if you can&#8217;t lay it on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}