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Quotes by musicians about music....

topic posted Fri, January 18, 2008 - 2:55 PM by  Ln
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.


Duke Ellington
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  • Re: Quotes by musicians about music....

    Fri, January 18, 2008 - 9:16 PM
    Kieth Richards was backstage one night when a very tallented young man came in and played an awsome solo on his electric guitar
    all who were there were blown away

    But Kieth Said "thats nice son...now try it on this"
    then he handed him an aucustic guitar
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  • Re: Quotes by musicians about music....

    Fri, January 18, 2008 - 9:24 PM
    Okay, one more tonight...

    "I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?" - Joni Mitchell
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    miles davis

    Mon, January 21, 2008 - 6:32 PM
    Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

    Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

    For me, music and life are all about style.

    I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.

    I'll play it first and tell you what it is later.

    It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it.

    Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

    The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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    • Re: miles davis

      Mon, January 21, 2008 - 9:45 PM
      The great Miles Davis, "Don't play what's there. Play what's not there." - That is such a COOL instruction on how to play jazz! Thanks for postiing this T-bird. :-)
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        Re: miles davis

        Tue, January 22, 2008 - 2:33 AM
        actually my favorite quote from miles isn't *exactly* about music, it's about critics: "i don't give a **** what they write about me as long as they spell my name right."

        he's a real fountain of quotes though. i'll have to find out the exact text of a back & forth between him & coltrane on another one i like.
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  • Re: Quotes by musicians about music....

    Wed, January 23, 2008 - 5:01 PM
    "Music at its essence is what gives us memories." - Stevie Wonder
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      Re: Quotes by musicians about music....

      Thu, January 24, 2008 - 12:17 PM
      "I can envisage a new world in which society has a way for there to be music, whose function is to get you high, that's the sort of thing we're hammering at.
      To get really high is to forget yourself and to forget yourself is to see everything else;
      and to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
      That's why I think it's important to get high."

      - Jerry Garcia
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  • Re: Quotes by musicians about music....

    Fri, January 25, 2008 - 12:02 AM
    "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 (1920-1955)
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    Sun, January 27, 2008 - 1:04 AM
    "Roaming through the jungle of 'oohs' and 'ahs', searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats." -- Duke Ellington (1899-1974)
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    Sun, January 27, 2008 - 10:20 PM
    "What he does is real, and true, and honest, and simple, and even noble. Every time this man puts his trumpet to his lips, even if only to practice three notes, he does it with his whole soul." -- Leonard Bernstein on Louis Armstrong (07/14/56)
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    Mon, January 28, 2008 - 4:44 PM
    "I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music." - Billie Holiday (1915-1959)
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