Quotes about guitar
Poe
guitar. Unfortunately I can't find the exact quote, but it's very similar to
this:
"He's an American and he uses humbucking pickups. That's a bad combination."
-Yngwie Malmsteen
I found that hilarious. Anyone got some good quotes?
-Poe
Snorky The Inept
"This is a Bill Russell double-action capo, and you can lose a finger trying
to use one."
-Bob Weir
--
Snorky the Inept
DEAD FREAKS UNITE
Who are you? Where are you?
How are you?
Dan
album." -Dave Mustaine
-Dan
Henrik Veber Madsen
Here come some unfunny ones:
"Chord names are in my subconscious, and I'm aware of them. But I'm more
conscious of them as a collection of lines that swim - they're going
someplace. If the lines are swimming, let them go where they want,
because they are free entities. And if they wind up in utter disaster,
don't give up; give them swimming lessons. If I start to think, "This is
this chord, and that is that chord, and when this note changes while
that line moves against these sustained notes it becomes this chord,"
it's too academic; I'm making a calculator out of it. I want to listen
to those tones, to the overall effect. If I don't, I won't be able to
guide those lines that want to go someplace. The bottom line is
intervals - that's the way my mind works - and they don't have to have
any names. They are just this far apart or that far apart. I'm conscious
of each note's relationship to every other note; it's actually an air
gap."
---- George Van Eps
The best way to keep improving is to have a guitar lesson every day.
---- Randy Rhoads
The best part of playing the guitar was that it wasn't taught at school.
---- Jimmy Page
In the Blues format, I can almost lose consciousness; it's like seeing
in the dark.
---- Eric Clapton
I play when I'm inspired to play, and I definitely don't practice
scales.
---- Adrian Belew
The guitar is a portable weapon.
---- Antonio C. Jobim
Knowledge speaks, wisdom listens.
---- Jimi Hendrix
"Shut up and play your guitar."
---- Frank Zappa
hvm
--
"Paradise..... is exactly like..... Where you are right now.....
Only much,...much.... Better....!"
'Language is a Virus' — Laurie Anderson
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-hank Hill
Poe
>"David Gilmour can say more with one note than Yngwie could say with a whole
>album." -Dave Mustaine
Wonderful quote!
Here're some more I love, from the book 100 guitar tricks you shouldve been
told:
"It's not about technique, it's not about what kind of instrument you play or
how loud it is or how quiet it is; it's about how it feels and how it makes you
feel when you play" - Eric Clapton
I have found that quote very inspiring.
"You never can learn enough with any intrument. I don't practice as much as I
used to, but when I was really into my late teens and early 20's, I kept a
guitar by the bed with the radio turned down real low. Nobody would hear it
except me, and every time a guitar would come on and you'd hear something,
you'd grab the damned guitar right then and get as near to what you heard as
you can. If you could sleep with that guitar in your hand it wouldnt be too
much guitar. Yeah, you need to fool with that thing as often as you can and as
long as you can, and if you love it like I do you would be one of the best.
Spend as much time with it as you can, more than you can, even though you know
youve got to put it down some time. Every chance you get you put that damned
thing in your hand and you fool with it!" - Buddy Guy
"When I was six I took guitar lessons and gave up the guitar because the first
thing the guy did was show me how to read, and started to teach me notes and
music theory, which had nothing to do with palying guitar. I would do enormous
emounts of work on the maths of music without the reward of hearing something
that I liked. After a month of lessons I could maybe play the first few notes
of a nursery rhyme, whereas I wanted to play a bit of rock n roll, which he
probably could have shown me just as easily" - Paul gilbert
That quote is the absolute key to teaching beginners. At least in my
opinion... play stuff you enjoy!
"I got my first Gibson for 80 pounds. It was a Les Paul Special, a cherry
one... God, I loved that guitar." - Mark Knopfler
In response to why did you start guitar: "I liked the way it sounded" - Frank
Zappa
On open chords: "You can take any one of our songs and move them up and play
them as barre chords and they're just not the same songs anymore. They've lost
width and depth somehow." - Malcolm Young
"Hank Marvin had a Strat and it was all I ever wanted" - David Gilmour
"I wrote "Shoe Me The Way" in the morning and "Baby I Love Your Way" just as
the sun was setting the same day. I'm still trying to work out what I had for
breakfast." - Peter Frampton
"I was interested in the white rock and rollers until I heard Freddy King.
Then I was over the moon! I knew thats where I belonged, finally" - Eric
Clapton
"There's so much more to life than scales" - John Etheridge
"I know too many players who don't have a lot of knowledge about scales and
modes, and those players tend to play from the heart more." - Dimebad Darrell
"I'm an emotional lush. I cry at The Hunchback of Notre Dame, you know?" -
Steve Vai
"If you learn a few good scales then that's enough, it's much better to learn
two or three really well than to learn a million and a half just so you can say
that you can play the Hungarian Gypsy minor!" - John Etheridge
"I don't think about what I do, I really don't... put it this way: you've got
this many notes - twelve notes. However you use them is up to you. None of
this "I'm play the phygian mode." However you want to play them is up to you"
- Edward Van Halen - a great quote - I recommend EVH interviews for lots of
great quotes
"I also felt the guitar became a different instrument when it was turned up to
maximum and fully distorted - it was no longer a polyphonic intrument, really -
so it seemed to be crying out to be orchestrated, and I could hear just what it
would be like in my head. This is long before queen, and long before Smile,
which was the group before that. Then there were a few things that reinforced
that feeling. For instance, Jeff Beck's hit "Hi Ho Silver Lining" had a bit in
the middle where he double tracked the guitar, and just for a moment it breaks
into harmony. I dont know if that was by accident - I should ask him one day -
but I used to play that over and over again and just revel in that sound, and I
thought that, if you could get hold of that sound and make a feature of it, and
if it were not just two guitars but as many as you needed to make a proper
arrangement, the possibilities would be endless. So as soon as we got into the
studio, I was on the trail" - Brian May
"WHat you learn you have to interpret in a way that's right for you. To simply
copy the people around you is antiproductive... if you want to be a virtuoso,
by all means dont be embarassed, and if you want to just plug into your amp and
slam out distorted, untuned chords, don't be embarrassed about that either." -
Steve Vai
"What do I represent to young players? I have no idea. I dont know where
theyve gone in their heads now, what their influences are. It sporbably
nothing to do with what my contribution was. I have no idea... I was just
lucky to be in the right place at the right time and very fortunate to have
survived" - Eric Clapton
"If I think of a guitar part but I cant actually do it as well as Id like to
hear it done then I'll get someone who can" - David Gilmour
"I was playing the blues, I guess, same as I'm playing now. Ive just updated
that same thing. Sometimes I wonder what keeps me going, but I do just keep on
going. And I love it - I figure it must be God, or whatever, you know?" -
John Lee Hooker
Those are about all the good ones from the book, I hope you guys enjoyed those.
I didnt check over them or look at the screen so forgive typos please!
-Poe
Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner
> "Shut up and play your guitar."
> ---- Frank Zappa
FZ was a good source of quotes. Here's my favorite:
"From the very beginning when I used to hear those solos on those old
records I used to say: now here is an instrument that is capable of spewing
forth true obscenity, you know? If ever there's an obscene noise to be made
on an instrument, it's going to come out of a guitar... Let's be realistic
about this, the guitar can be the single most blasphemous device on the face
of the earth. That's why I like it ... The disgusting stink of a too-loud
electric guitar: now that's my idea of a good time."
-- Frank Zappa
--
If mail to me bounces, try removing the "+STRING" part of the address.
Mark Seery
- Guitar players should learn as many sax solos as they can. The reason for
this is that the average sax player is a damned sight better than the
average guitar player -
MS
Christopher Berry
I guess that quantity isn't as good as quality...
Mottos
You sound like you look. If your face is all out of whack, it probably
sounds that way too. --passed down from a former voice teacher to me
- J.E.
Singing is controlled abandon.
- ? -- Esther Simkin
"Art is the signature of a civilization."
- G.K. Chesterton
The Keough family motto in english from Gaelic translates to: "Spill some
blood before you go"
- JAMES KEOUGH
"Artistry released through technique"
- Daniel Knowles, Vocal Instructor
if your fingers aren't aching and your head isn't pounding -you aren't done
practicing!!!!
- anonymous
Practice doesn't make Perfect. Perfect practice makes Perfect.
- Jerry Picott
Think you're wrong, think you're right, either way you're right!!
- DC
remember what long john silver says "walk a mile in my shoe"
- craig bucsi
Let the Song Sing the Singer!!
- Steven Berman - http://listen.to/stevenberman
Where there's music, there can't be mischief! spoken by Sancho Panza in the
story, "Don Quixote"
- Cervantes
Change is inevitable, growth is optional
- Kyle Diamond
"You only have to practice on the days that end in Y "
- Jodi
"In everything you do in life...have fun"--EDG I LOVE PERCUSSION !!! --EDG
- Esther Denise Garza
Do more than exist - Live. Do more than touch - Feel. Do more than look -
Observe. Do more than read - Absorb. Do more than listen - Understand. Do
more than think - Ponder. Do more than talk - Say Somthing.
- ? contributed by R. Houser
Less is more!
- dom...@hotmail.com
Protect Music As it Protects The Nations
- Dheeraj kumar malviya
No Substitute For Practise
- Dheeraj
The more I practice the better I get... The better I get the more I
practice...
- Darryl Bayer - www.texasbrass.com
If you can't do a job right, don't do it.
- Larry R. Watkins
I'm going to be a STAR someday and no one is going to stop me until my
DREAMS ARE REALITY !!!!
- Erica Haygood - ather there is no ather!!!!
Don't go to bed as stupid as you woke up.
- A. Thornberry
THINGS ALWAYS LOOK DARKEST JUST BEFORE THEY GO TOTALLY BLACK
- RICK B.
"Strive for the Highest"
- ?
Veni Vidi Vici (I came, I saw, I conquered)
- Jeanette Watson
"Just Ziggadeuzz"
- Dan Man
"Who Dares Wins"
- SAS
Jamnation!
- G.R. "Arbert" Williams
Do what you believe in, Believe in what you do.
- Amy Grima
growing up is not ageing,losing interest is ageing
- vipin venugopalan
" If you want to be successful, then surround yourself with successful
people."
- - Rodney Jerkins
old musicians never die they just go to the coda and fade away- author
unknown
- submitted by gary in north carolina
the woods would be very silent if only the best birds sang- henry david
thoreau
- submitted by gary in north carolina
Im not a rockiscian bluesician,jazzician or popiscian im a musician. (motto
for my students)
- Don Costa
Music washes away the dust of everyday life.
- Rachel Noel
You only have to practice on the days you eat.
- Paula Scott, piano teacher
Anything worth doing takes time and effort.
- ?
There are only 3 things you need on this earth: God, Music and Chocolate.
And in that order.
- Lana
Focused, attentive practice in small doses, ( 3-5 minutes, maybe less !!!!!)
solves more problems than longer stretches mechanically repetitious.
- Richard C. Spross, classical guitarist / teacher
"Song and Wind"
- Arnold Jacobs
Practice the way you want to perform or you'll perform, the way you
practice!
- Jim Miller / Akron, Ohio North High School
If you don't have time to practice, I don't have time to listen.
- Mosetta Page
Play clean and you will go far in life.
- Brad Heddinger
Better math through music
Better music through math
- geocities.com/jassworld - Jihm Miller
It's always something.
- Jihm Miller - geocities.com/jassworld
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
- 88 KEYS (www.music-depot.net)
Good, better, best, Never never rest, till your good is better and your
better is best!
- Meagan Walton Trenton, New Jersey
Practice, you've got to love it, or you're going to hate it!
- John P. Gulyas
To Strive, To Seek, To Find, and not to yield...............
- unknown
Music is the beautiful language of humanity.
- Tian-Hsien Shih
"Jazz is a conversation where no one interrupts"
- Pat Corn .... Guitarist/Arranger/Vocalist
If you can't be a good example you will have to serve as a horrible warning.
- Cathrine Ayrd
"What's music to your life, if you got no life to put in your music?"
- Remon Feijen
"When playing JAZZ, if you make a mistake, do it again and it is no longer a
mistake!!!"
- John Kozlick
As long as you try, you will not fail.
- Laurie (music teacher grades 1-12)
What you must do, you do with play.
- Michael Hinton
" There can be no learning, If there has been no teaching"
- anonymous
STRIVE TO MASTER MUSIC AND YOU ARE STRIVING TO BE THE BEST!!
- Natalie
Not the fulfillment of the programme, but the mutual impetus of teacher and
student leads to success.
- Hovsep Dikran
Life is good, Music is better!
- Muse Zi shun
Seize Natural Talent...be open to Originality.
- Chris Seger - Brevity Records www.brevityrecords.c
If it sounds nice play it twice.
- www.lydiawarren.com
There are three indispensable conditions for the instrumentalists: right
breathing,ability of concentration and singing
- Hovsep Dikran - conductor
True musical genius consists in knowing what to leave out!
- Barney Kessel
Practice only on days that you eat.
- Sarah and Roberta
Early is on time; on time is late...
- Jeff Harris, Longboat Key, FL
Place music in a child's heart, and the mind will take it from there.
- Paula Manwaring / teacher / Salt Lake City
Remember... You don't HAVE to practice! You GET to practice!
- David Mount -Redlands, CA www.davidmount.com
Practice a piece when it is still fresh in your mind and in your fingers!
- Irini Emanoilidis
It's not how good you play that counts. It's how good you look when your
playing.
- Kevin - Trumpeter of course
Music is not just sound. Maybe music will save the world.
- Pablo Casals
One must sing by INTENTION, not by ACCIDENT...............
- Marya Basaraba, Los Angeles
The practice must be a fun,the performance-love
- Hovsep Dikran conductor
Intelligent practice will get results.
- Vinnie Capodie, Percussion teacher/Performer
Practice without performance is time spent alone. Performance without
practice is a waste of time. Practice every day. Perform every week.
- Mark Johnstone - Guitarist
Your music is the key...play it and you will find the door....to yourself.
- shadume@yahoo, Donna Harrington
!La Musica Es Mi Vida! (Espanol-Music is my life!)
- shadume@yahoo, Donna Harrington
The voice is as individual as the snowflake. I hold each voice: gently,
never to crush the naturalness; yet firmly, to awaken the trueness.
- Kimberly Chapron- private vocal coach
Perfect Practice makes Perfect!
- Stephen Gardner
"Wisdom is not knowledge; Knowledge is not truth; Truth is not beauty;
Beauty is not music- Music is best."
- Frank Zappa
"Don't be shy!"
- Romer Fajota
When teaching, always abide by the law of KISS. Keep It Simple Stupid.
- Jonathan Alonzo Rios
Your soul is free only after you have allowed yourself to be taken captive
by music.
- Jonathan Alonzo Rios
Wise grasshoppa once say, "always memorize first and last measure"
- D. Wascher
Amateur musicians practice until they get it right. Serious musicians
practice until they can't get it wrong.
- Christopher Phillips
Motto for Music Students: Have a BLAST! Better - Listeners - Always -
Sound - Terrific!
- Allen C Paul, Miami, FL
The difference between an amateur and a professional is that the
professional knows how to cover up the mistakes!
- Paula Penna, MusicMakers, LLC
Making music is like making love.
- Liova Kaplan
Lessons mean nothing if you don't practice.
- Keichii Chung
"Don't Be Shy!"
- Romer Fajota
The hell with trying to find her, I'LL JUST PICK HER UP AND PLAY!
- George Hiler Just learning guitar
Always have something memorized and ready to play at a moment's notice. You
never know when there'll be a piano in the room!
- Miss Alix/Harmony Road Music School
"I practice while you sleep."
- Monica Blas - Music Teacher
"Music soothes the beast and heals the soul."
- Monica Blas - Music Teacher
"Keep it funky, but don't lose your groove!"
- J. Pitney, drums/bass instructor
"Keep on funkin' in the free world!"
- J. Pitney, drummer/bass instructor
Don't practice tomorrow. Only practice today.
- Judith King
You are what you think you are.
- Everett Kalcec, Saxophone instructor
Sometimes you must let the Music play You...
- Sal Guitarez
Whenever you're not practicing, someone else is.
- Cindy Bruce
Go home and practice... and then when your done, practice some more.
- jim crye
Feel Great! Play PIANO!! (also Feel Great! Play FLUTE!!)
- Lisa Rae Vaughan - Pittsburgh PA Piano & Flute
"Music and all Art is an essential part of the "human experience." A basic
understanding and appreciation of Music can only broaden ones character and
deepen the understanding between ourselves and those around us! "
- D C DowDell, Professor of Music
You can never practice too slowly for long enough.
- Katie Boardman
ON MY RECITAL PROGRAMS I ALWAYS HAVE A GRAND PIANO AND YOU ONLY GET OUT OF
IT, WHAT YOU PUT IN INTO IT!
- DELORES ALOIA
Practice slow to play fast.
- Marty Buttwinick / Faunt School of Creative Music
"Music is like a genie, it makes all things possible."
- Adrian Hernandez, Adrin...@aol.com
Shut up and PLAY!!
- Becky Phillips
If you're thinkin you're stinkin!
- Ken Tissue/ikic...@juno.com
For all the guitar players out there remember to stay nimble and stay off
the wood.
- Ken Tissue/ikic...@juno.com
If you love music and your instrument and you desire to master both, then be
prepared to choke down a truckload of black cookie in order to get to the
creamy filling.
- Ken Tissue/ikic...@juno.com
I feel that the spectator's role and the musician's role are equal.
- jeff kilgallon zip 19403 Drum teacher
I used to stay home and practice my drums because I thought it would
eventually help me to get good and meet women. Now that I'm meeting women, I
just want to stay home and practice.
- jeff kilgallon zip 19403 Drum teacher
As a child, I would run home after my drum lesson and practice right away in
an effort to someday out do my drumteacher. Nowadays, after a day of
teaching lessons, I run home and practice, cause I think they're thinking
the same thing.
- Jeff Kilgallon WWW.asharpmusic.webatonce.com
Technique is that thing you develop to achieve your "feel." "Feel" is that
thing you've always had that sometimes gets eclipsed by all this technique
you developed.
- Jeff Kilgallon WWW.asharpmusic.webatonce.com
The gift of Music has undoubtedly stood the test of time. The question is,
will you give yourself the time to test the music?
- Jeff Kilgallon WWW.asharpmusic.webatonce.com
Discouraged or feeling your musical career isn't moving forward enough? Then
stand in front of your instrument and hear and invision a thousand cheers
from a solo you thought you could never play. Now, tenaciously...work
backwards!
- Jeff Kilgallon WWW.asharpmusic.webatonce.com
Problem: Feeling discouraged or flat out hopeless about your musical career.
Maybe not moving forward. Answer: Stand in front of your instrument. Hear
and visualize a thousand fans cheering to a solo you thought you could never
play.
- Jeff Kilgallon WWW.asharpmusic.webatonce.com
Sports allows only finite involvement while music allows infinite
possibilities.
- Cathy Thompson
Life is hard, learning an instrument well is harder.
- Cathy Thompson
Close your eyes while playing to really feel the music.
- Cathy Thompson
Practice with a purpose.
- Cathy Thompson
It's not what you play, but how you practice.
- Cathy Thompson
Music: It lives, it breathes, it eats... on everyone's soul with an
unsatisfying hunger.
- Mylo "Doc" Bechet
Feeling is fundamental. If you don't feel music, the why study it?
- Matthew Brown
You can lead a horse to drink but you can't make 'em water.
- Dave Neuman
Make Musical Sense.
- Gary Tu (Jazz Guitarist and Instructor)
Always practice as if the performance were tomorrow.
- Tansy Waguespack
A rest is not a nothing, it's a something!
- Steven Gray
I have two rules for my students to remember in a recital: 1. I will play to
the best of my ability for no one can ask any more of me and I can ask no
less of myself. 2. I WILL HAVE FUN.
- Beverly Ramstrom-Manning, prfmr/tchr, violin
Think of your drumstick as your paintbrush, now paint me a colorful picture.
- Sean Dorton
Don't be afraid of the click. The click is your friend. Be one with it...
- Sean Dolan/ Percussion Instructor, NYC
If it is to be, it's up to me.
- Helen S. Purdon, Vocalist and Instructor
"I can't" means "You Won't"
- Vito Spiotto
Practice slowly = learn fast.
- Derek Day
The student who does not plan to practice should not plan to study.
- Marty Heresniak
Don't be product oriented. Let the process deliver when mastery is achieved.
- Marty Heresniak
Don't think of singing as something you do from such a time to such a time,
but as something that becomes part of your life.
- Marty Heresniak
Learn the little habits of singing so completely that they become second
nature.
- Marty Heresniak
The performer who is thinking about technique is boring.
- Marty Heresniak
Practice doesn't make Perfect...it makes Permanent.
- Cate Frazier-Neely
If you weren't successful, then you didn't try hard enough.
- Alex Blanton
"Anyone can beat a drum, only a drummer can keep the beat."
- Jose Naber (Private Drum Teacher)
Practice the piece when it's still fresh.
- Irini Emanoilidis
The 11th Commandment: "Curveth Thou Fingers".
- Matt Johnson, Musician
"Notes are printed on the page, music is what we create from them."
- Tom Culver
Children will inevitably sing, so why not help them learn to do it
correctly?
- mar...@mcn.net
I'm more comfortable with my instrument than you but, it's only because I've
been playing longer. We both have a brain and ten fingers. Be patient.
- Justin Schroder
A great performance begins with great practice.
- Wes Henry
Practice does not make perfect, practice makes PERMANENT!
- Michael Nelson
Perfection does not exist. The road to perfection... yes!
- Carlos Della Mora, Tenor
The art begins when the science ends.
- Dennis Young, violin teacher
Endeavor to Persevere!!!
- Frederick Burton
Your best....is God's perfection through you.
- Diane Deck
Music should be a fun and enjoyable learning experience.
- Jennifer Foxx
Do be an ideoisu.
- Dianne Norris
Practice only on the days that you eat!
- Anna Rapagnani
Ragtime Rhythm - a little R & R for your ears!
- Donald F. Stevison
There is no substitute for hard work......determination ensures success!
- Joel Pace
Aptitude With Attitude.
- Tom Kopyto
Your Key To Success
- A+ Piano Studio
Quotes
"Just when you think you've given your all, remember the Castrati!"
- Daniel Knowles; Vocal Instructor, Los Angeles
Music is a part of your life!
- Dennis Scaccia
the next time you think you're perfect try walking on water
- i dunno
let's do our Best! play like you've never played before!
- klbb
Sometimes it takes a long time to play like yourself.
- -Miles Davis (submitted by Joel Goldfarb
"Do or not do; there is no 'TRY'."-Yoda
- melissa, WV
"A man can make a white girl sing the blues" -Tina Turner
- Daniel Curry
Whomever invented the word 'apparent' obviously never was one.
- Ms. Rebekah F. Whitelock (aka Morgan's Mom :-)
"Praise him with the crash of cymbols, praise him with resounding cymbols"
EDG
- PSALMS 150:5
Language is like a wine of the rarest vintage and tastes insipid to the
inarticulate.
- unknown
"Just remember: No matter where you're going; once you get there,
well...there you are!"
- -Jared Gillette (gentleman, scholar, bassist)
Carpe Diem!!!! Latin for Seize the Day!!!!
- Everyone
"Music, A Natural High"
- Don de Michele Trumpet Teacher
Mistakes are genius
- eleonor england
"An excuse is like an armpit. Everybody has two of them, and they both
stink."
- unknown
"It's time to get out of the practice room and let the music begin."
- - Carma Romano-LaMorte
"For Sarah, it wasn't about the result; it was about the performance."
- - an Olympic figure skating commentator
to the world you may just be one peson.... but to me you are the world
- un known
Do what you dream even if people are trying to talk you out of it and even
if they think you are dumb to do this. If they think that they think that
they are not very good friends.
- Marissa Barker
"Were all Dreamers,if you don't have dreams what do you have?"
- Anonymous
"Less is More"
- Bobby "Blues" Eaton
(Drummer to lead singer:)"Should I count this next song off too fast, or too
slow"?
- Unknown
go slo so yo know yo mo sho i.e. practice slow so you know you're more sure
- Denis Bach
If you can believe it, you can achieve it.
- Lil' Angel
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life"
- ???
Life is like a piano,what you get out of it depends on how you play it
- ?
Your only as good as your last Gig...
- Somebody
"I want to be remembered for the music, or not at all."
- Eddie Wilson (from movie "Eddie & The Cruisers")
"DO OR DO NOT, THERE IS NO TRY"
- YODA
"These are the times that try men's souls."
- Thomas Paine/ Adam Swindler
"Do what you fear and fear dissappears!"
- Exeter Union High School Band and Colorguard (CA)
You know you're a musician when all the voices in your head form a choir.
- Brandon Smedley - musician/teacher
"You will be a musician when not only your hands, but your heart is filled
with music." -Schubert
- Patti Bennett
"The song of the piano is a discourse... The song of the 'cello is an
elegy... The song of the guitar...is a song"
- Eugenio D'Orss
Record yourself often. You want to be the first to know what you sound
like...not the last!
- www.joetheguitarman.com
Those who wish to sing, will always find a song.
- Swedish Proverb
"Genius is one percent inspiration, 99% perspiration"
- Thomas Edison
"The violin is dear to the heart, charming and soothing to the soul,
challenging for the fingers and brain, and faithful but fun for dedicated
players!"
- Maureen Manoly
"The song of the piano is a discourse, the song of the 'cello is an elegy,
the song of the guitar...is a song"
- Eugenio d'Orss
A friend told me He'd risen above jazz. I leave him there.
- Michael Harper
"The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he
will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note
follows another inevitably...and he leaves us with the feeling that
something is right in the world."
- Leonard Bernstein
Music is my religion and my love
- Ozzy
M.U.S.I.C.: Make Up Something Interesting and Complimenting Neil Peart on
drumset playing
- Dave Burhenn
"Ye who ever truly understands my music is freed thereby from the miseries
that others carry about in them."
- Beethoven, quoted in Joseph Machlis, The Environme
Love is a mixture of lust and communication ... Hell !!! ... SO IS MUSIC!
- Warren Tiplady, Dallas TX.
If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing.
- -African proverb
How bad you really want what you say you want? Bad enough to spend 30
minutes a day or bad enough to spend 3 hours a day...
- Jeff Harris, Longboat Key FL
Music is Love in search of a Word.
- Clementina N. Francis
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and
praise your Father in heaven. Matt 5:16
- Vicki Stoddart
"It all lies in preparation." Lillian Fuchs
- David Thorp, dsthorp@yahoo
"I think, I play, therefore I am!
- Fritz Kriesler(submitted by Angela Felsted)
"Remember your first lesson." -Dr. Carrol McLaughlin, Harp Professor,
University of Arizona
- Sonya Yu
...don't worry if the horse is blind.....just load the wagon.......
- John Madden
...every note has an origin and a destination......
- Tal Farlow
......learn everything then forget it and just play........
- Charlie Parker
Sometimes the note hears the attack coming, and retreats....
- Niles Crane
Practice makes POSSIBLE
- Susan Colla
Your soul is free only after you have allowed yourself to be taken captive
by music.
- Jonathan Alonzo Rios
You ain't got a thing if you don't got those strings!
- Keichii Chung
You can sit down when I sit down.
- Texas High Marching Band Director/ Buddy Deese
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is
music." -- Aldous Huxley
- Katherine K Posner
It's not practice that makes perfect but "perfect practice" that makes
perfect.
- Aunt Lillian by way of Howatd Austin
"Keep it funky, and don't lose your groove!" --or-- "Keep on
funkin'/groovin' in the free world!"
- J. Pitney, drums/bass instructor
Life without music would be a mistake.
- unknown
It is not what YOU want, it is what the MUSIC wants...
- Andres Segovia
As Beethoven once wrote: "To be a musician is to have the soul of a gypsy,
and the discipline of a soldier." or as Zoltan Kodaly put it: "Music
education should begin 9 months before the birth of the mother!"
- Margy Greenlee-Butterfield
Genius is the capacity for taking infinite pains.
- Unknown
"Reading Music is as interesting as language reading."
- BENLY S. FORMOSO
Music is not a language, but instead, a living being that is nurtured and
understood by its society
- Gene Moon
"Love not what you are, but what you may become."
- Miguel de Cervantes
It's know how much you know that determines whether your amatuer or pro,
whether its when you realize how much you don't know when your on the road
to perfecting your craft. Jeff kilgallon. Drum teacher.
- jeff kilgallon
Always Listen And Be Influenced By Music And By Your Hero's. Be Open Minded
And Reach For The Stars. Don't Give Up Just Because You Can't Play As Fast
As Your Hero's. There Is A Place For Everyone In This Business.
- Keith Jones - Drummer, Percussionist, & Instructor
"Music speaks the beauty words cannot express".
- Kathy Paul
...the bass and drums are the central heating system of the
orchestra... -Igor Stravinsky
- Sean Dolan, NYC
Theory follows practice." - Dr. David Baker
- Derek Day
Those who love teaching, help others love learning.
- unknown
(To get my percussion students to count out loud) "If you can say it, you
can play it" or "If you have it in your head, you'll have it in your hands"
- Dennis B Cotton
Good drummers own metronomes, great drummers use them.
- Dennis B Cotton
Practice makes perfect....so be careful what you practice.
- unknown
You must perfect your craft before you can perfect your art. -- Barry
Tuckwell
- Marty Heresniak
When I found out I could make mistakes I knew I was on to something. --
Coleman Hawkins
- Marty Heresniak
Achieve Simplicity. Not the simplicity of a child, but the simplicity that
comes from the resolution of complexities. Carl Gutekunst (1895-1985)
- Marty Heresniak
Never sing a single tone without intention. --Carl Gutekunst (1895-1985)
- Marty Heresniak
If you don't particularly like a song you're working on, then learn it as
QUICKLY as possible to finish it and move on.
- Alexandra Hawley
Don't Suck. :)
- Keith Dunton
Practice does not necessarily make perfect. PERFECT Practice Makes Perfect.
- unknown
Don't B flat, don't B sharp, just B natural.
- unknown, submitted by Cyndi Long Inlow
He who honors his master with practice shares in the bountiful joy of music.
- Sammy Latture
I take each student as a clean slate. Talk to them and listen to their
present playing and make sure they understand where they are at, and then we
see "Where We Want To Go" and "What We Need To Do" to get there! It's a
simple process after that.
- Steve Clarke
"When we try to explain what we think we know, we're likely to end up with
something new." Marvin Minsky The Society of Mind
- Jeremy Gould
If you forget to practice one day, you will know the difference, but if you
forget to practice two days, your listeners will know the difference too.
- Mario Palumbo
Music is Music No Other Way
- SAURABH BABRE [COMPOSER]
Rhythm is the body, Melody is the soul.
- MY SELF[SAURABH BABRE]COMPOSER
Before you can rock...you've got to learn how to roll!
- PATTI COPPOLA / DRUM TEACHER /PATTI THU...@AOL.CO
"Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind.
flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to
everything."---Plato
- Jack R. Baker (Fretted Instruments School-NYC)
Brad Panek
> "I'd sell my wife before I sold my guitar"
> -hank Hill
My guitar teacher for about a year, Ron Rosenberger, once said about
Jimi Hendrix...
Referring to the famous E-maj7-sus4 Hendrix chord.
Without that chord he would've just been another truck driver.
Rather funny and yet very profound. Of course he was much more of a
guitarist than just that one chord, but it certainly made a big
difference in his music and sound.
Henrik Veber Madsen
You really mean E7#9, right? Jimi had a lot of great chords, like the
ones in 'Castles Made Of Sand' and 'One Rainy Wish', etc.,etc.
hvm
--
"...There ain't no life nowhere..."
'I Don't Live Today' - Jimi Hendrix
Mike C.
"Henrik Veber Madsen" <h...@mail.uni2.dk> wrote in message
news:3D4C60...@mail.uni2.dk...
Particularly funny is the fact that there is no such legit chord as an
E-maj7-sus 4 Hendrix chord. The only people who feel that way about Hendrix
and his influence are people who have not listened to Hendrix. If you can
find an E-maj7-sus4 chord and/or an E7#9 chord in Little Wing, The Wind
Cries Mary, Castles Made Of Sand, Third Stone From The Sun, or Villanova
Junction, feel free to let me know. That's a seriously ignorant statement to
come from anyone, never mind a teacher.
orion
couldn't resist.
"He's great. And I like the way he uses _Yngwie "J" Malmsteen_, you
know, so you don't get him confused with all the other Yngwie
Malmsteens in the world."
- David St. Hubbins of Spinal Tap, from the Hear'n'Aid "We're Stars"
video
"I don't know, why don't you ask _Oyvey Malmberg_?"
- George Lynch of Dokken, circa 1985, responding to a caller on a
Philly radio show who asked of him, "So how's it feel to be a great
guitar player?"
"It's just wire and wood."
- Steve Vai
j.
Paul Booth Johnson
Poe wrote:
When an interviewer asked Andre Segovia how long he's been playing the guitar he
responded,
"Ever since before I was born"
--
-Paul Booth Johnson
"My Heroes Have Always Been Highways" - Tom T. Hall
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/314/paul_booth_johnson.html
http://www.frontiernet.net/~pj2/index.html
--
jH
"Poe" <poe2...@aol.compirate> wrote in message
news:20020802162841...@mb-ci.aol.com...
The first printing of "The Heavy Guitar Bible"
(1979)http://www.heavyguitar.com/HeavyGuitarBible.html
had some quotes in the back; they were quite good and varied-
Examples:
"It was 'Baby, Let's PLay House' by Presley. You've got to understand in
those days, 'rock and roll' was a dirty word. I heard that record and
wanted to be a part of it. I knew something was going on. The instruments
generated so much energy I had to be a part of it."
-- Jimmy Page
"It's faults or it's perfections lie in whoever plays it, and not in the
guitar itself; for I have seen some people accomplish things on one string
for which others would need the range of an organ"
-- Gaspar Sanz ( 1640-1710)
"My whole being was seized by an indescribable happiness as I began to play
the guitar, for it's tone was deep and sweet in the bass notes, diaphanous
and vibrant in the higher ones. And it's accent, the soul of it's voice
was noble and persuasive. I forgot everything but the guitar..."
-- Andres Segovia
And my personal favorite:
"When I open my eyes I can only sigh, for what I see is contrary to my
creed; and I must despise the world for not percieving that music is a
higher revelation than any wisdom or philosophy. It is the wine that
inspires new creations, and I am the Bacchus, who presses this wine for
men, and makes men spritually drunk; when they are sober they bring to
shore alll kinds of things which they have caught.
God is nearer to me than to others. I approach him without fear, I have
always known Him. Neither am I anxious about my music, which no adverse
fate can overtake, and which will free him who understands it from the
misery which afflicts others."
-- Ludwig von Beethoven
Enjoy
jH