Music Quotes - Page 17

• Girls you've gotta know when it's time to turn the page.

  Tori Amos

  Girl, Letting Go, Moving Forward

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• In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.

  Steve Lacy

  Want, Jazz, Improvisation

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• I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

  Charles Mingus

  Play, Trying, Jazz

  Charles Mingus' statement to Nat Hentoff as quoted in Anthony Fawcett "California Rock, California Sound: The Music of Los Angeles and Southern California" (p. 56), 1979, and in "Jazz: Beyond Time and Nations" in Nat Hentoff "The Nat Hentoff Reader" (p. 99), October 17, 2001.

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• Just because I'm playing jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me, the way I feel, through jazz, or whatever.

  Charles Mingus

  Writing, Play, Way

  "An Open Letter To Miles Davis". Charles Mingus, Downbeat Magazine, November 30, 1955.

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• I find my inspiration in myself.

  Thelonious Monk

  Inspiration, Jazz

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• It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator in the year 1902.

  Jelly Roll Morton

  New Orleans, Years, Jazz

  1938 In Downbeat, Aug.

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• Music is a means of rapid transportation.

  John Cage

  Mean, Rapids, Transportation

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.59, Wesleyan University Press

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• Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

  Charles Mingus

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Learning

  Charles Mingus' statement in Mainliner Magazine (July 1977); later quoted in Olivia Bertagnolli "Creativity and the writing process" (p. 182), 1982.

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• Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.

  Robert Fripp

  Wine, Silence, Cups

  "The Vinyl Solution". Musician, Player, and Listener, No. 24, April/May 1980.

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• If you're the biggest DJ in the world, you're in a position where you can play stuff that people don't know and blow people's minds. But if you just chose to play stuff they know just to get a reaction, that's just being lazy.

  John Digweed

  Blow, Play, People

  "The problem with mainstream EDM festivals" by Emilee Lindner, www.mtv.com. March 31, 2015.

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• To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Creativity, Pleasure

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.88, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

  Yoko Ono

  Artist, People, Mind

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• The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Men, Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 79

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• There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Fear, Grief

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• Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

  John Philip Sousa

  Feet, Free Jazz, Long

  John Philip Sousa (2010). “Six marches”, p.52, A-R Editions, Inc.

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• Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity.

  Joseph Addison

  Religious, Wings, Inspire

  Joseph Addison (1837). “The Tatler. The Guardian. The Freeholder. The Whig-examiner. The lover. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals. Remarks on several parts of Italy, etc. The present state of the war. The late trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The evidences of the Christian religion. Essay on Virgil's Georgics. Poems on several occasions. Translations from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Notes on some of the foregoing stories in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Poemata. Rosamond. Cato. The drummer”, p.425

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• I'm saddest when I sing.

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Saddest

  Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs and Ballads, Grave and Gay”, p.59

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• As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.

  Alexander Pope

  Church, Doctrine

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 342

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• Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

  Pietro Mascagni

  Jazz, Modern, Dangerous

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• Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

  Herbie Hancock

  Inspirational, Creativity, Play

  Twitter post from Jan 20, 2017

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• You can cage the singer but not the song.

  Harry Belafonte

  Song, Singers, Cages

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• Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music as if for the first time, as if I had never heard it before. Being so inescapably a part of it, I'll never know what the listener gets, what the listener feels, and that's too bad.

  John Coltrane

  Wish, Firsts, Jazz

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• Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you.

  Sun Ra

  Dream, Eye, Waiting

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• We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.

  Horace Silver

  Mind, Trying, Different

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• You are a 64-track recording - the tracks are always there, they're always with you. Sometimes the harsh tracks are cranked up and the rest are rolled down to zero. Other times the sweet tracks are high and the darkness is low. But it's all you.

  RZA

  Life, Sweet, Being Yourself

  The RZA (2009). “The Tao of Wu”, p.75, Penguin

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