“I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.”...
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“Only play what you hear. If you don’t hear anything, don’t play anything.” – Chick Corea Most people involved with music has heard the name of Chick Corea....
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“Let your life be your music and let your music be your life.” – Kevin Eubanks Kevin Tyrone Eubanks (born November 15, 1957 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American jazz...
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“Sometimes there are no gigs, but the main thing is the music. You can’t take that away. The only person who can take that away from you is you.” – Mike Stern Mike...
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“Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Oliver...
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“A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other’s ideas.” – Stan Getz Stan Getz (February 2, 1927 – June 6, 1991) was an American jazz...
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“Why a manager, I don’t need to pay anyone to say how great I am.” – Jaco Pastorius Jaco Pastorius was a true genius and he has influenced me a lot through the...
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“When Bird came on the scene, it was just as shocking as in the Bible: everything was dark, and then the light appeared for the first time.” – Shorty Rogers Milton “Shorty”...
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“Music is spiritual. The music business is not.” – Van Morrison Van Morrison (born George Ivan Morrison; 31 August 1945) is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician. His...
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“The only truth is music.” – Jack Kerouac Jean-Louis “Jack” Kérouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist and poet. He is considered a literary...
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“To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.” – Quentin...
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“Wes Montgomery played impossible things on the guitar because it was never pointed out to him that they were impossible.” – Ronnie Scott Ronnie Scott (28 January 1927 –...
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“Do not fear mistakes, there are none.” – Miles Davis Miles Davis (1926 – 1991) was one of the greatest in music, period! Below is the story about Miles...
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“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...
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“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...
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“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...
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“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...
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“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...
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“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...
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“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...
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“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...
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“Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment, and music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and...
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“Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.” – Christina Aguilera Christina María Aguilera (born December 18, 1980) is an...
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“What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.” –...
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“The real art of conducting consists in transitions.” – Gustav Mahler Gustav Mahler [7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the...
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“It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.” – Harry Connick, Jr. Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Jr. (born...
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“The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.” – Roy Ayers Roy Ayers is probably one of the best...
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“They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.” – Charlie Parker Charlie Parker – “Just...
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“I think that a musician is like a doctor, he’s supposed to heal people and make them feel better.” – Steve Turre Steve Turre (born 12 September 1948 Omaha, Nebraska) is...
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“Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.” – Wes Montgomery John Leslie “Wes” Montgomery (March 6, 1923 – June 15, 1968) was...
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“It ain’t braggin´ if you can back it up” – Jaco Pastorius Question to Jaco Pastorius: “Would you ever consider playing a 5 string bass?” Jaco answers:...
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Thierry Eliez (born 1964) is a wonderful French musician, composer and singer. Thierrys main instruments are keyboards and piano. The first time I heard Thierry was with the great French drummer (composer,...
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“Without music, life would be a mistake.” – Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, poet, composer,...
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“It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play.” – Dizzy Gillespie John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American...
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“We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.” – Decca in response to the Beatles, 1962 Maybe Decca made the wrong decision in 1962? The...
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“Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread – without it, it’s flat.” – Carmen McRae Carmen McRae (April 8, 1920 – November 10, 1994) was an American jazz singer,...
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Rob Madna (June 8, 1931 – April 5, 2003) was a great Dutch jazz pianist, composer and arranger. It was my very good friend Jan Dahlstedt who opened my ears to the world of Rob Madnas music. The...
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“The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it. If you’re swept away by it, you can’t wait to do it again and the same magical moments always come.”...
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“Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it’s very hard to teach racism to a teenager who’s listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It’s hard to say,...
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“You can’t rehearse a blues, darlin’.” – Joe Williams Joe Williams (1918 – 1999) was a well-known jazz vocalist, a baritone singer, a mixture of blues,...
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Abraham (or Abe) Laboriel (born 1947 in Mexico) is one of the masters on electrical bass. Originally a classically trained guitarist, he switched to bass guitar while studying at the Berklee School of Music....
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“Where words fail, music speaks.” – Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen; often referred to in Scandinavia as H. C. Andersen (1805 – 1875) was a Danish author...
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Captain Beyond was an American/British rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1971. The original line-up for Captain Beyond were singer Rod Evans (ex-Deep Purple), drummer Bobby Caldwell (ex-Johnny...
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“Boxing is like jazz, the better it is, the less people appreciate it.” – George Foreman George Forman (born January 10, 1949) is a retired American professional boxer, former...
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“Music is my religion. Music is the only thing that has never failed me. People let you down, music won’t.” – Gary Bartz Gary Bartz is a very fine American alto and soprano...
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“My music had roots which I’d dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.” – Ray Charles Ray Charles (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004) was...
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“Music is the strongest form of magic.” – Marilyn Manson...
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“Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It’s not an occupation or profession, it’s a compulsion.” – Duke Ellington Duke Ellington was...
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“Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn.” – Charlie Parker Fantastic! This is funny!...
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“Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.” – Martin Luther...
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“Deep Purple is a damn good band and we’ve made a niche in rock ‘n’ roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of.” – Jon Lord Jon Lord...
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“I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That’s all I know.” – Billie Holiday Billie Holiday (1915 – 1959) was a fantastic...
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“I’ve said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.” – B.B. King Below are some examples of what...
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“Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.” – John Lennon My first own album was “Beatles For Sale” with the...
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“There are certain disciplines we apply to our life in respect of diet, living and the way we live. There are certain aspects which have to be kept clean, things that relate directly to the Creator. By...
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“Jazz is freedom. You think about that.” – Thelonius Monk Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer considered as...
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“Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”...
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“I would teach children music, physics and philosophy; but most importantly music, for in the patterns of music and all the arts are the keys of learning.” – Plato Here you can...
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“I have won several prizes as the world’s slowest alto player, as well as a special award in 1961 for quietness.” – Paul Desmond This music with Paul Desmond is...
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“It’s the group sound that’s important, even when you’re playing a solo. You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times....
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“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. I get most joy in life out of music.” – Albert...
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“If they act too hip, you know they can’t play shit”. — Miles...
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“At heart I’ve always been a jazz man.” — James...
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“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.” — Charles Mingus Listen to Charles Mingus –...
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“…it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It’s not. It’s feeling.” — Bill...
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“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.” – Leonard...
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“All music is beautiful.” – Billy...
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“There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.” Frank...
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“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.” Ludwig van...
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“Music doesn’t lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.” – Jimi...
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“It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.” (When asked about the theory of relativity) –...
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