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“When you’re happy you enjoy the music, but when you’re sad you understand the lyrics.” ~Frank Ocean
Being An Intellectual
“Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin”
“Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.” ~ Janis Joplin
A Higher Revelation
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soils in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents. Ludwig van Beethoven
“We hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves” ~ Jim Morrison
Do not fear mistakes. There are none. ~Miles Davis
“Life’s like a mayonnaise soda.” ~Lou Reed
“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.” ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“The loudest noise in the world is silence.” ~Thelonious Monk
“Simple music is the hardest music to play and blues is simple music.” ~Albert Collins
“Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.” ~ Jimi Hendrix
“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 ….
I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door. Continue reading “I’ll read my books ….”
“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
Music Quote
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
The Beatles
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
Music
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
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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
Music
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”
I’m No Politician… Jack Bruce
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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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Music
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
Buddy Guy Born: July 30, 1936
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.
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