Quote # 54 by Luciano Pavarotti
“Learning music by reading about it, is like making love by mail.” – Luciano Pavarotti Luciano Pavarotti (12 October 1935 – 6 September 2007) was an Italian operatic tenor who also crossed over into popular music, eventually becoming one of the most commercially successful tenors of all time. He made numerous recordings of […]
Quote # 53 by Mary Lou Williams
“I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he’s booking.” – Mary Lou Williams Mary Lou Williams (May 8, 1910 – May 28, 1981) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. Williams wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements, and recorded more than one hundred […]
Quote # 52 by John Coltrane
“When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.” – John Coltrane This is the third time I write about my hero John Coltrane. My first post in Musiclover.se was about John Coltrane “Giant Steps”. If you are interested to read that post […]
Quote # 51 by Jimi Hendrix
“The reflection of the world is blues, that’s where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that’s tryin’ to come around.” – Jimi Hendrix There are so much to be said about Jimi Hendrix, so I keep it short. To read more about Jimi […]
Quote # 50 by Edgar Winter
“Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.” – Edgar Winter Edgar (Holland) Winter (born December 28, 1946 in Beaumont, Texas) is an American musician/singer and younger brother to blues guitarist and singer Johnny Winter. Edgar Winter is famous for being a multi-instrumentalist and he is a highly […]
Ronny Laws is a cool saxophone player
Ronald Wayne “Ronnie” Laws (born October 3, 1950, Houston, Texas) is an American jazz, blues and funk saxophonist. He is the younger brother of jazz flutist Hubert Laws and the older brother of singer Debra Laws. In 1975, Ronnie Laws began his solo career with the album Pressure Sensitive, which yielded his most famous […]
Quote # 49 by Berthold Auerbach
“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Berthold Auerbach Berthold Auerbach (28 February 1812 – 8 February 1882) was a German-Jewish poet and author. He was the founder of the German “tendency novel”, in which fiction is used as a means of influencing public opinion on social, political, […]
Quote # 48 by Buddy Guy
“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 George “Buddy” Guy (born July 30, 1936 is an American blues guitarist and singer. Critically acclaimed, he is a pioneer of the Chicago blues sound […]
Bobby Lyle is a great keyboard player, singer and musician
Bobby Lyle is a jazz, soul jazz, and smooth jazz pianist. He was born in Memphis, Tennessee but grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota in a home near the corner of Park Avenue and 32nd Street. Bobby had his first gig at 16 and played in the 1960s with Gene and Jerry Hubbard in the […]
Quote # 47 by Fiona Apple
“The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.” – Fiona Apple Fiona Apple McAfee Maggart (born September 13, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. Her debut album, Tidal, was released in 1996 and received a Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal […]