Performing Music Quotes

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  Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

  Charlie Parker

  Music, Art, Men

  Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)

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• Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

  Charlie Parker

  Music, Jazz And Life, Boundaries

  "Bird: the legend of Charlie Parker". Book by Robert George Reisner, p. 27, 1977.

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• Man, there's no boundary line to art!

  Charlie Parker

  Music, Art, Men

  Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)

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• They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

  Charlie Parker

  Music, Art, Men

  Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)

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• If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

  Charlie Parker

  Music, Art, Reality

  Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)

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• It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

  M. Ward

  Luxury, People, Heard

  "M. Ward Going Solo Once Again" by Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com.

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• Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Time, Bills

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same.

  Toni Braxton

  Fashion, Years, Music Is

  FaceBook post by Toni Braxton from Oct 25, 2016

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• Studying music encourages self-discipline and diligence, traits that carry over into intellectual pursuits and that lead to effective study and work habits. An association of music and math has, in fact, long been noted. Creating and performing music promotes self-expression and provides self-gratification while giving pleasure to others. In medicine, increasing published reports demonstrate that music has a healing effect on patients. For all these reasons, it deserves strong support in our educational system, along with the other arts, the sciences, and athletics.

  Michael E. DeBakey

  Art, Strong, Educational

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• Performing music is a way to do comedy, but without the obligation to do a solid hour, hour and half of a standup. I could intersperse it with music, so it became a really good format for me.

  Steve Martin

  Half, Way, Comedy

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• I started performing music about the age of 16. I lived in Brooklyn, New York, and this thing called the Flatbush Fair comes once a year. That was my first time on stage.

  Theophilus London

  New York, Years, Age

  "Theophilus London, Hip-Hop’s Newest Name (and What a Name!)". Interview with Michael Pollock, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 5, 2011.

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• I was always tinkering around with stuff but nothing serious at the time. I was doing animations and drawing like crazy, but I wasn't imagining that I'd be performing music for people, that's for sure.

  Chad VanGaalen

  Crazy, Drawing, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• For all of us involved in preaching the gospel, performing music, publishing Christian materials, and all the rest, there is an uncomfortable message here: Jesus is not terribly impressed with religious commercialism

  Jim Cymbala

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

  Jim Cymbala (2010). “Fresh Wind Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People”, p.74, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I dont really like meetings, I like recording and performing music. I need to set myself up for when the time does come that I need better distribution or just a bigger team behind me.

  Chance the Rapper

  Team, Doe, Needs

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• Learning and performing music have been rewarding, both physically and mentally. They helped me to mature and grow as a person.

  George Li

  Mature, Grows, Persons

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 26, 2012.

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