Musical Experience Quotes

• 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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• The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music.

  Amy Grant

  Growing Up, Church Music, Musical

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• Once you get into the book, you've got to constantly find your - the rhythm of your prose. And it ends up being quite a musical experience either way.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Book, Musical, Way

  "Bruce Springsteen: On Jersey, Masculinity And Wishing To Be His Stage Persona". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, radio.krcb.org. September 15, 2017.

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• I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised on film. My musical experience is all via film, it's not from classical music.

  Danny Elfman

  Musical, Might, Stuff

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• Digital music boils down the actual musical experience.

  Simon Le Bon

  Musical, Digital, Digital Music

  "Duran Duran's Simon LeBon: 'We Were Part of the Record Industry's Demise. It Wasn't a Great Experience.'". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 23, 2010.

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• Going through this musical experience really helped us to understand the core of the film.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Musical, Film, Core

  "Isabelle Huppert (I)". Interview with Christopher Cook at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.

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• I always liked major-key music quite a bit, and that might have something to do with so many of the musical experiences of my childhood being based around the piano. On piano, it is very easy to move between major and minor and to really see how it looks and to feel how it sounds.

  Andrew W.K.

  Moving, Piano, Keys

  Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Anything we were studying in school, like math, or understanding somebody's behavior outside of school, kind of worked its way into something I could understand by way of a musical experience I'd had or something I'd heard.

  Blake Mills

  School, Math, Understanding

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It's the opposite of that. Engineers in lab coats have created a musical experience that is so crisp and clean, it can literally improve your hearing.

  Barry Goldberg

  Opposites, Musical, Coats

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• Nature endows us with the feeling that moves us in all our musical experiences; we might call her gift instinct.

  Jean-Philippe Rameau

  Moving, Feelings, Musical

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• The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.

  Aaron Neville

  Nice, Musical, Bonus

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• Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.

  Tony Visconti

  Christmas, Mom, Dad

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• Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on.

  Graham Nash

  Musical, Able, Different

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• Each person comes to have this musical experience, this moment with us, where they get to sink into our world for a little while. It’s this very unhurried world. It’s fairly quiet, it’s contemplative, but it can be quite panoramic. I think people think interesting thoughts at our shows, and they go rather deeply into some personal experience of their own. I’m really proud that our music seems to connect, because it’s not for everybody. But for the people that our music works for, it really gets down pretty deep in there.

  Gillian Welch

  Thinking, Our World, Interesting

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• Seskin has the gift of song...his voice has a natural lilt that can’t be learned. The combination of musicianship and repertoire make for a rich and satisfying musical experience.

  Joel Selvin

  Song, Voice, Musical

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• The majority of people mistakenly feel like they don't need a live musical experience.

  Reggie Workman

  People, Musical, Majority

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• My earliest professional musical experiences were really as a session player, and every day was an adventure. Three sessions a day, every day, and you never knew who you would be working with until you arrived at the studio.

  Rick Wakeman

  Travel, Adventure, Player

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• The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty. The more your musical experience, the easier it is to define for yourself what you like and what you don't like. American radio listeners, raised on a diet of _____ (fill in the blank), have experienced a musical universe so small they cannot begin to know what they like.

  Frank Zappa

  Musical, Sound, Radio

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• Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Art, Emotional, Piano

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• We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.

  Brian Eno

  Writing, Space, Musical

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