Music Quotes - Page 33

• If you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth.

  Bob Marley

  Looks, Earth, Life Is

  "Song: 'Get Up, Stand Up'". 1973.

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• Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality.

  Bob Marley

  Jealousy, Reality, Jamaica

  Song: Wake Up And Live, Album: Survival, 1979

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• All music is important if it comes from the heart.

  Carlos Santana

  Heart, Important, Ifs

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• Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.

  Virgil

  Optimism, Singing, Existential

  "Eclogues (Book IX)". Book by Virgil, 37 BC.

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• One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.

  Robert Hughes

  Tired, Player, Piano

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• I think the labyrinth is an interesting metaphor for our lives as musicians. We're always being drawn toward the center of it because that's where the mystery is. What is music? It's a journey.

  Sting

  Journey, Thinking, Interesting

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• Music is a performance and needs the audience.

  Michael Tippett

  Needs, Audience, Performances

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• I wrote a song, but I can't read music so I don't know what it is. Every once in a while I'll be listening to the radio and I say, "I think I might have written that."

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Song, Humor

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• Music has a great power for bringing people together. With so many forces in this world acting to drive wedges between people, it's important to preserve those things that help us experience our common humanity.

  Ted Turner

  Peace, Common Humanity, People

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• Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.

  Carlos Santana

  Men, Notes, Coltrane

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• ... I'm not conscious of the speed ... it's not my motive ... my motive is displaying a voice through the fingerboard ... it can get to the point where I don't have control over what I am playing ... I never end the gig until I can't sing anymore

  Alvin Lee

  Voice, Gigs, Speed

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• I feel a great responsibility to deliver for our audience ... I am like their servant, but there's only one honest way to lift people up, which is to feel genuinely elevated yourself. And the way to do that is follow your heart. That's all we try to do.

  Trey Anastasio

  Heart, Responsibility, People

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• It's very difficult for me to dislike an artist. No matter what he's creating, the fact that he's experiencing the joy of creation makes me feel like we're in a brotherhood of some kind we're in it together.

  Chick Corea

  Artist, Creating, Joy

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• Emancipate yourself from mental slavery,
  None but ourselves can free our minds.
  Have no fear for atomic energy,
  'Cause none of them can stop the time.

  Bob Marley

  Mind, Energy, Slavery

  "Song: 'Uprising'". 1979.

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• It's one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but it's another thing to practically create a new language of music, which is what 'Kind of Blue' did.

  Chick Corea

  Blue, Play, Tunes

  "Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece". Book by Ashley Kahn, www.cnn.com. 2000.

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• I no longer wanted to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to people.

  Chick Corea

  Mean, People, World

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• My soul is always lifted up, and my spirit cheered and comforted, when I hear good music. I rejoice in it very much indeed.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Soul, Spirit, Rejoice

  Joseph Fielding Smith (1971). “Gospel Doctrine”

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• If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagiarize or take 'on loan'. There's always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows, who'll trip you up and laugh when you fall.

  Steven Morrissey

  Fall, Writing, Laughing

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• Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.

  Teddy Wilson

  Player, Limits, Gamer

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• The more you accept herb, the more you accept Rastafari.

  Bob Marley

  Herbs, Accepting

  YouTube Chanel "hempdottv"/ "Bob Marley interview on Marijuana", www.youtube.com. March 11, 2008.

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• All dese governments and dis this and that, these people that say they're here to help, why them say you cannot smoke the herb? Herb... herb is a plant, you know? And when me check it, me can't find no reason. All them say is, 'it make you rebel'. Against what?

  Bob Marley

  Government, People, Rebel

  Interview with Dylan Taite in Aotearoa, New Zealand, 1979.

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• Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don't make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness.

  Bob Marley

  Men, Drunk, Alcohol

  Interview with Dylan Taite in Aotearoa, New Zealand, 1979.

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• Every day the bucket a-go a well, one day the bottom a-go drop out.

  Bob Marley

  One Day, Buckets, Wells

  Song: I Shot The Sheriff, Album: Burnin', 1973

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• A hungry mob is an angry mob.

  Bob Marley

  Hungry, Adages, Angry

  "Song: 'Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)'". 1974.

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• We JAH people can make it work.

  Bob Marley

  People

  Song: Work, Album: Uprising, 1980

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