Musical Quotes - Page 36

• The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose-and is a test of the quality of a nations' civilization.

  John F. Kennedy

  Music, Art, Civilization

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• A little bit if listening with a passable ear will get an awful lot of messages anywhere.

  John Hendricks

  Music, Listening, Ears

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• Sam Phillips always encouraged me to do it my way, to use whatever other influences I wanted, but never to copy...if there hadn't been a Sam Phillips, I might still be working in a cotton field.

  Johnny Cash

  Music, Use, Cotton

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• Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions.

  Johnny Griffin

  Music, People, Feel Good

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• Jazz is an art form that depends on its antecedents, there must be respect for the people that have gone before.

  Jon Hendricks

  Music, Art, People

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• Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

  Josephine Baker

  Music, Sky, Earth

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• I think music as we know it, is autobiographical.

  Julius Hemphill

  Music, Thinking, Jazz

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• Let your life be your music and let your music be your life.

  Kevin Eubanks

  Music, Jazz, Life Is

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• There are no natural barriers. It's all music. It's either hip or it ain't.

  Lee Morgan

  Music, Hips, Jazz

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• The hippest thing you can do is not play at all. Just listen.

  Lennie Tristano

  Music, Play, Jazz

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• Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Music, Men, Jazz

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• Well, the way I play, I try not to be a 'repeater pencil', ya dig? Originality's the thing. You can have tone and technique and a lot of other things but without originality you ain't really nowhere. Gotta be original.

  Lester Young

  Music, Play, Trying

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• My life has always been my music, it's always come first, but the music ain't worth nothing if you can't lay it on the public. The main thing is to live for that audience, 'cause what you're there for is to please the people.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, People, Firsts

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

  Pietro Mascagni

  Music, Jazz, Modern

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• The high note is not the only thing.

  Placido Domingo

  Music, Crafts, Notes

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• Music should never be harmless.

  Robbie Robertson

  Music, Jazz, Should

  "The Men return to their noisy roots with the tense Devil Music" by Matt Williams, music.avclub.com. November 11, 2016.

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• There is no truer truth obtainable by Man than comes of music

  Robert Browning

  Music, Men, Piano

  Robert Browning (2008). “The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.”, p.357, Wildside Press LLC

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• When Bird came on the scene, it was just as shocking as in the Bible: everything was dark, and then the light appeared for the first time.

  Shorty Rogers

  Music, Dark, Light

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• Music is love in search of a word.

  Sidney Lanier

  Music, Love You, Angel

  Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.70, University of Georgia Press

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• I don't separate one era of jazz from another, because I listen to everybody... Everybody takes from everybody else and adds their own thing and goes on from there.

  Sonny Criss

  Music, Add, Goes On

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• I simply want to reach a level where I will never cease to make progress...so that, even on the bad evenings, I may never be bad enough to despair.

  Sonny Rollins

  Music, Progress, Despair

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• I'm fortunate that I'm making a living at it now because I'm not equipped to do anything else.

  Sonny Rollins

  Music, Jazz, Making A Living

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• Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.

  Sonny Rollins

  Music, Jazz And Life, Type

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• No one is original. Everyone is derivative.

  Sonny Rollins

  Music, Derivatives, Jazz

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• One very important thing I learned from Monk was his complete dedication to music. That was his reason for being alive. Nothing else mattered except music, really.

  Sonny Rollins

  Music, Dedication, Important

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