Music Quotes - Page 29

• But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?

  Bill Wyman

  Years, Radio, Young

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• I do sometimes think I could have done without the drugs actually; that was a waste of time, and a huge risk. But then again, there's nothing I can change, so in a way regret is pointless.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Regret, Thinking, Drug

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• Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.

  Stan Kenton

  Funny, Clever, Smart

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• It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.

  Duke Ellington

  Inspirational, Mean Girls, Swings

  1965 Of trumpeter Bubber Miley.'The Most Essential Instrument', in Jazz Journal, Dec.

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• The challenge to the improvisor is to get permanence into his spontaneity. The challenge to the composer is to get spontaneity into his permanence.

  Barry Finnerty

  Challenges, Jazz, Spontaneity

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• One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.

  Ira Gershwin

  Happiness, Agreement, Very Happy

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• The true artform is being a human being.

  Herbie Hancock

  Jazz, Humans, Human Beings

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• A chimpanzee could learn what I do physically, but it goes way beyond that. When you play, you play life.

  Jaco Pastorius

  Play, Way, Jazz

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• We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.

  Tim McGraw

  Life, Best Friend, Success

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• Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.

  Gioachino Rossini

  Inspiration

  Undated letter translated by Josiah Fisk and Jeff Nichols in "Composers on Music" (1997), p. 67; as quoted in "Gioacchino Rossini" by Luigi Rognoni, (p. 337), 1968.

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• I have a lot of albums yet to do.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Albums, Jazz

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• Approach your guitar intelligently, and if there are limits, don't deny them. Work within your restrictions. Somethings you can do better than others, some things you can't do as well. So accentuate the positive.

  Chet Atkins

  Funny, Guitar, Limits

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• When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love, we become singers of grief and weavers of elegant description.

  Martin Prechtel

  Grief, Singers, Firsts

  Martín Prechtel (2013). “The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun: A Mayan Tale of Ecstasy, Time, and Finding One's True Form”, p.83, North Atlantic Books

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• Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully.

  Mark Twain

  Hypocrisy, Bully, Soul

  Mark Twain (1992). “Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn”, p.293, Wordsworth Editions

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• I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.

  Charles Darwin

  Sex, Opposites, Males

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.7535, Delphi Classics

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• Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music.

  Karl Kraus

  Technology, Noise, Rooms

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• I am tired before the concert, not afterward.

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Tired, Concerts

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• Guitarists shouldn't get too riled up about all of the great players that were left off of 'Rolling Stone Magazines' list of the Greatest Guitar Players of all Time' ... Rolling Stone is published for people who read the magazine because they don't know what to wear.

  Joe Satriani

  Player, Guitar, People

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• If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing.

  Claude Debussy

  Reason, No Reason, Ifs

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• When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Sports, Hunting, Dating

  Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1972)

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• Nothing recalls the past like music.

  Madame de Stael

  Past, Recalls

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• Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft.

  Henry Threadgill

  Art, Crafts, Jazz

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• Every day when I sit down to play, I learn something new.

  Erroll Garner

  Play, Jazz, Something New

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  In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

  Paul McCartney

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Song: Golden Slumbers

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• Only the drum is confident, it thinks the world has not changed

  Robinson Jeffers

  Change, Confidence, Thinking

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (1988). “The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1928-1938”, p.158, Stanford University Press

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