Musical Quotes - Page 35

• There really is no such thing as art. There are only artists.

  Ernst Gombrich

  Music, Art, Jazz

  Ernst Hans Gombrich, Didier Eribon (1993). “Looking for answers: conversations on art and science”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• Musicians should never forget that we're blessed. We have a special gift that people can enjoy through us. We've had the good fortune to receive this and pass it along to others.

  Ed Thigpen

  Music, Blessed, People

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• As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass, or does it come in like honey?

  Eddie Condon

  Music, Glasses, Broken

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• They flat their fifths, we drink ours.

  Eddie Condon

  Music, Jazz, Drink

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• Finally Beiderbecke came out with a silver cornet. He put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out like a girl saying 'yes'.

  Eddie Condon

  Music, Girl, Sound

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• I feel very, very gratified when people are complimentary to what I have done or appreciated it with sincerity... It makes me feel that maybe I did do something that was proper and that was right.

  Elvin Jones

  Music, People, Done

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• Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

  Frank Capra

  Music, Math, Two

  Frank Capra (1971). “The Name Above the Title: An Autobiography”

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• Music is my religion. Music is the only thing that has never failed me. People let you down, music won't.

  Gary Bartz

  Music, People, Jazz

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• The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first sounded discordant and senseless to the main body of contemporary professional musicians.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Music, Growth, Ears

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• Regarding jam sessions: Jazz musicians are the only workers I can think of who are willing to put in a full shift for pay and then go somewhere else and continue to work for free.

  George Carlin

  Music, Thinking, Somewhere Else

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• The history of a people are found in its songs.

  George Jellinek

  Music, Song, People

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• I don't just write music to esthetically satisfy somebody. The reason I write music is that I feel it's a vehicle or channel which leads to your true self, your essence.

  George Russell

  Music, Writing, Self

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• If America has a future, Jazz has a future. The two are inseparable.

  George Russell

  Music, Two, America

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• I think there are only three things that America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music and baseball. They're the three most beautifully designed things this culture has ever produced.

  Gerald Early

  Music, Baseball, Thinking

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• Life on the road is murder. It's as though life begins and ends when you have your horn in your mouth.

  Gerry Mulligan

  Music, Mouths, Jazz

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

  Henry Threadgill

  Music, Art, Crafts

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• We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.

  Horace Silver

  Music, Mind, Trying

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• I want to play music that draws a picture of the world and its space.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Play, Space

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• Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Player, Guitar

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• Anytime a person can play the blues, he has a soul and he has a 'lift' to play anything else he wants to play. It's sort of like the foundation to a building.

  Jimmy Rushing

  Music, Play, Soul

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• The hardest thing for a musician to learn is how to play WITH people. That's what made the Basie rhythm section.

  Jo Jones

  Music, Play, People

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• If you're going to make a mistake, make it loud so everybody else sounds wrong.

  Giuseppe Venuti

  Music, Mistake, Sound

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• Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music as if for the first time, as if I had never heard it before. Being so inescapably a part of it, I'll never know what the listener gets, what the listener feels, and that's too bad.

  John Coltrane

  Music, Wish, Firsts

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• When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.

  John Coltrane

  Music, People, Desire

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• I'm into scales right now.

  John Coltrane

  Music, Jazz, Scales

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