Topic: music quotes

I saw this on another forum and people seemed to be having fun with it so I figured I'd start a thread here. Looking for quotes from musicians or about music in general. I'll start with: Music is everybody's possession, it's only publishers who think people own it- John Lennon

Don't take life too seriously, you're not getting out alive anyway

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On writing a song you like

" if you write a song and you like it then someone somewhere in the world will like it too"

meaning if you write a song and you like it then it is a good song for you. After he said this it made me write a lot of songs in the early 90's

David Bowie




Ken

ye get some that are cut out for the job and others just get by from pretending

3 (edited by mrjay 2009-02-24 16:50:03)

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"A painter paints pictures on canvas. But a musician paints pictures on silence." - Leopold Stokowski

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Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, Act 1 Scene 1
English dramatist (1670 - 1729)

"Growing old is not for sissies"

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I think this was from Miles Davis.  It's a paraphrase anyway because I stink at remembering exact quotes.

First, we learn to play our instruments.  Intonation, moving between notes.  Then we learn to play music.  Scales, arpeggios, reading notes.  Finally, it's just play, baby, play. 

- Zurf

Granted B chord amnesty by King of the Mutants (Long live the king).
If it comes from the heart and you add a few beers... it'll be awesome! - Mekidsmom
When in doubt ... hats. - B.G. Dude

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"I gave up drugs when the doctor told me I had 6 months to live" Keith Richards

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"All music is folk music, I ain't never heard no horse sing a song."
-Louis Armstrong

"In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain."
-George Szell

"Music melts all the seperate parts of our bodies together."
-Anais Nin

Give everything but up.

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"The blues had a baby, and the whole worlds trying to call it rock and roll"
  by; Brownie MaGhee.


   " I never took lesson's [laughter] maybe I should have"
  Jeff Healy.




  Badeye .. cool

one caper after another

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Why should the devil have all the good music?  - Larry Norman

Is anything really made up of zeros and ones??