Great musical quotes.

Tannin

"Man, I love your playing" says Doyle Dykes, "You can play so many different styles!  I play all different styles too. (It just all comes out as country.)"

thecolourbox

Classical conducter Sir Thomas Beecham to an underperforming cellist...

"Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it."

Gassage

Spontaneity is when practice meets skill.

Neil Peart. 

flying_pie

More is more. Less is less. The idea that less is more is illogical

Yngwie J Malmsteen

axisus

Still makes me laugh .....

[Guitar mag] What do you think of Mike McCready's lesson?
[Yngwie] Someone should give him a lesson

Whistler

You don't have to be great to start playing but you have to start playing to be great.

viz

Beethoven: “To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.”

viz

Not a musical quote but Simon Le Bon was brilliant when he said “I’m not a snob, ask anybody; well, anybody who matters”. 

Jalapeno

Listen to the Buddy Rich bus rant - there's gold in there !

mudslide73

When Peter Grant introduced himself to Bob Dylan as "manager of Led Zeppelin" Bob replied: "I don't come to you with my problems, do I?".

axisus

Attributed to Miles Davis -


Play a wrong note three times and it becomes an idea

I’ll play it first and tell you what it is later.

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.

It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.

Anybody can play. The note is only 20%. The attitude of the mother****er who plays it is 80 percent.

If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some colour, or for some wealth, you can’t be trusted.

I always listen to what I can leave out.

If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.

 

 

thecolourbox

Jazz music is when you never play the same thing once

Gassage

"What's got three legs and a cunt?"

"A Drumstool."

N. Gallagher.

blobb

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

digitalkettle

I always liked John Bohlinger's take on a session career:

Accept the three stages.

If you work hard at your craft and stay in the game long enough, there will be three stages to your musical career (with a Da Capo al Coda ending):
• Stage 1: Who is John Bohlinger?
• Stage 2: Get me John Bohlinger.
• Stage 3: Find me a young, hip John Bohlinger.
• Final Stage: Who is John Bohlinger?

Taken from his PG blog.

Blueingreen

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

Duke Ellington.

GoFish

Jalapeno said:

Listen to the Buddy Rich bus rant - there's gold in there !

This clip with youtube autosubs on is another thing entirely

GoFish

blobb said:

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

Ah, imigine how little love there'd be without the songs.

sev112

GoFish said:

blobb said:

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

Ah, imigine how little love there'd be without the songs.

But most of them are splitting up or unrequited love so I'm not sure that's a great thing 

susbemol

“True Music, like all true Art, is an experience to be shared, not judged, for praise cannot make it better, as blame cannot make it worse.”

- Pat Martino