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“The death of rock was not a natural death. Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered.” ~Gene Simmons

“I’m only myself when I have a guitar in my hands.” ~George Harrison

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me. ~ G. W. F. Hegel

Music is my emotional tranquilizers. ~Maria Herliana

Practice Any Art ….

“Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut ——————- “Kurt Vonnegut Once Sent This Amazing Letter To A HighContinue reading “Practice Any Art ….”

Music may not make you a genius …..

“Music may not make you a genius, or rich, or even a better person. But it helps train you to think differently, to process different points of view — and most important, to take pleasure in listening.” Joanne Lipman

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand. ~Stevie Wonder

Music Language

Music is the one universal language. It’s your best friend when the chips are down, and it’s better than any energy drink when you’re feeling it. Dave Smalley

When It’s Time

“I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.” ~ Jimi Hendrix

“Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.” ~Janis Joplin

Do not fear mistakes. There are none. ~Miles Davis

Music is the medicine of the mind. ~John Logan

Music ~ Albert Einstein

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ~ Albert Einstein

I’ll read my books ….

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“A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.” ~ Miles Davis

Miles Davis, Musician – B: May 26, 1926 – D: September 28, 1991

Music is a safe kind of high. ~ Jimi Hendrix

A world without music is just a world full of noises that don’t make sense. ~ Isaac Saylor

We don’t like their sound…..

We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. – Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962

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River Of Dreams ~ Billy Joel

“We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We’re all carried along, by the river of dreams.” ~ Billy Joel

Long You Live ~ Roger Waters

I’m Still Learning About Music ~ Tony Bennett

“I’m still learning about music. The best way to learn is to listen to the audience. When you listen to the audience, they will tell you what they like. I wish these big corporations, instead of telling the audience what they should have, would listen.” ~ Tony Bennett

Miles Davis Quote: Music Is

“A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.” ~ Miles Davis

Charlie Parker – Master The Music

“Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.” ~ Charlie Parker

Autumnal Winds

Wild is the music of autumnal winds Amongst the faded woods. ~William Wordsworth

Walter Lippmann ~ Wisdom Quote

“It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.” ~ Walter Lippmann

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Everyone Loves Music

John Coltrane Quote

“Damn the rules, it’s the feeling that counts.” – John Coltrane

Joni Mitchell Quote

“When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it’s time for artists to make their mark.” – Joni Mitchell

Buddy Guy Quote

B.B. King Quote

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. ~B.B. King

J.D. Salinger Quote

If music is a Place — then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple. ~Vera Nazarian

Taxman

“George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.” – Paul McCartney

White Rabbit

“‘White Rabbit’ was mostly done in about two days, the music in about half an hour. The music is a ‘Bolero’ rip-off and the lyrics a rearrangement of ‘Alice in Wonderland.’ You take two spectacular hits and throw them together, and it’s hard to miss.” – Grace Slick

Literacy

“Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.” – Grace Slick

Blue Skies

“Blue skies Smiling at me Nothing but blue skies Do I see” – Ella Fitzgerald

Moving

“I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once.” – John Coltrane

Listening

“Don’t ever get so big or important that you can not hear and listen to every other person.” – John Coltrane

Walking

I was walking through the leaves. Falling from the trees. Feelin’ like a stranger nobody sees. ~Bob Dylan Love and Theft (2001)

Music ~ Ella Fitzgerald

“Music is the universal language … it brings people closer together.” – Ella Fitzgerald

Yoga

“Yoga is almost like music in a way; there’s no end to it.” – Sting

Quote ~ Jeff Beck

“My first wife said, ‘It’s either that guitar or me,’ you know — and I give you three guesses which one went.” – Jeff Beck

Communication

“There’s a lot of different forms of communication, but music is absolutely the purest one.” – Duane Allman

Music Is

“A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.” – Miles Davis

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

Born: March 25, 1942

Love Is

To sing is to love and affirm, to fly and to soar, to coast into the hearts of the people who listen to tell them that life is to live, that love is there, that nothing is a promise, but that beauty exists, and must be hunted for and found. -Joan Baez (Daybreak 1968)

The Past

The past is gone and the future might not even be, the only thing we ever experience is the now, I try to enjoy the minute. -George Harrison

New York

Born: April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974 Composer

Two Things

Born: January 25, 1938 – Died: January 20, 2012 Singer-songwriter

Daydreams In Music

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Music without words means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation. Meditation returns you to the source. And the source of all is sound. -Kabir

Moondance

Well, it’s a marvelous night for a moondance With the stars up above in your eyes A fantabulous night to make romance ’Neath the cover of October skies And all the leaves on the trees are falling To the sound of the breezes that blow And I’m trying to please to the calling Of yourContinue reading “Moondance”

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George Harrison Quote On Experience

Born: February 25, 1943 – Died: November 29, 2001 (aged 58)

Kurt Vonnegut Quote

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Pink Floyd

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Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry, music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness. Edgar Allan Poe, Letter to Mr. B-

Eric Clapton

The blues are what I turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life. Eric Clapton

Buddy Guy

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Bonnie Raitt

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R.I.P. Greg Allman

Greg Allman, along with his late brother Duane, that founded The Allman Brothers Band, passed away. He was 69 years old.

Jimi Hendrix

Music is a safe kind of high. Jimi Hendrix

Billy Joel On Musicians

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Carl Perkins Quote

Born: April 9, 1932 – Died: January 19, 1998

Short Story

On a beautiful warm day, he decides to go outside, and sits himself down on the stoop. He takes out his blues harp, and plays some down home blues. Some of the passersby stop to watch him, and love what they are hearing. That makes him a very happy guy.

R.I.P. Chuck Berry

Charles Edward Anderson “Chuck” Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017)

Eric Clapton Quote About Music

Music is the best solution to any problem

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Short Story

The air outside is hot The air is stifling The dogs are laying in the shade The old man is sitting on the stoop Playing the blues with his harmonic The people who pass by are smiling The old man knows it all good ************ Short fiction

John Lennon Quote

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Janis Joplin Quote

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Happiness – Leo Tolstoy

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A Quote From One Of My Favorite Blues Singer And Guitarist

I’ve never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that’s why I go on doing it – I like to see everybody smile. – Buddy Guy

Glenn Frey, Eagles founder, dies aged 67

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Natalie Cole, singer and daughter of jazz great Nat ‘King’ Cole, dies at 65

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Buddy Guy Quote

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Happy Birthday Ringo Starr

Today is Ringo Starr’s birthday. He is now a young 75 years old.

Friday Morning Quote

Time Flies

Paul McCartney’s birthday is today, (June 18, 1942). He is now 73 years young. It just seems like it was only yesterday, that The Beatles landed in New York. And that was in February of 1964. Then he was a 21 year older, and a start of a successful career. Time flies.