"Invisible airwaves crackle with life
Bright antennae bristle with the energy
Emotional feedback on a timeless wavelength
Bearing a gift beyond price, almost free"

  -Geddy Lee- in Rush's The Spirit of Radio

 

 

"Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture" - Thelonious Monk.

 

 

"I . . . stared at the phone. It was hard for me to believe that Igor Stravinsky had a telephone number, just like the rest of us. God didn't have a phone number. Why should Stravinsky? Nevertheless, my trembling hand reached out and dialed his number, which, I noted with astonishment, had the same number of digits as those of ordinary mortals."

 

-Arnold Steinhardt, Indivisible by Four

You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. ~Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket

 

 

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

"All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing." -Louis Armstrong

 

“Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.?-Charlie Parker.

“Tap your foot (in response to a question from on 60 Minutes regarding what his music was all about.)-Count Basie

 

“Women and rhythm-section first!?-Jaco Pastorius

 

“Man, if you have to ask what it is, you’ll never know.?-Louis Armstrong

 

“I don’t need words — it’s all in the phrasing.?-Louis Armstrong

 

“Never play anything the same way twice.?-Louis Armstrong

 

“I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.?-Miles Davis

 

“Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!?-Miles Davis

 

“Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.?-Miles Davis

 

“A beat is a moment in the life a groove.?-Wynton Marsalis

 

“(in reference to Kenny G’s overdubbing of Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World") ‘When Kenny G decided that it was appropriate for him to defile the music of the man (Louis Armstrong) who is probably the greatest jazz musician that has ever lived by spewing his lame-ass, jive, pseudo bluesy, out-of-tune, noodling, wimped out, fucked up playing all over one of the great Louis’ tracks (even one of his lesser ones), he did something that I would not have imagined possible’?-Pat Methany

 

“And if I ever DO see [Kenny G] anywhere, at any function — he WILL get a piece of my mind, and maybe a guitar wrapped around his head.?-Pat Methany

 

"When u march....pretend you have a penny between your cheeks...and I dont mean your face...."-Frank Hoskins

"I can't listen to Wagner that much. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland." - Woody Allen

"making music makes life better"

 

"Music reminds us that we're never too old to cry."

 

"Chopin is my dawg!" - Alicia Keys

 

"Music's the medicine of the mind" - John A. Logan

 

"Without music, life is a journey through a desert" - Pat Conroy

 

"I've outdone anyone you can name — Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500" - James Brown

 

"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." - Billy Joel

 

“Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. - Charlie Parker

 

“For me, music and life are all about style.
“Do not fear mistakes. There are none. - all by Miles Davis

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

"If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing."

“Never ever practice. Always perform.” –Mr. Dave Martin

 

“If you’re on a team, you’re on the team, but you’re in the band. And in band, there is no bench.” –Mr. Dave Martin

 

“In that song each section is like a gem hanging from a Christmas tree.” –Molly Einhorn (referring to Christmas Festival)

“Look, Miss Worcester Mass, my name’s Cohan, I’ve written half-a-hundred shows and put on half-a-hundred more and if I say five minutes it could be anything up to an hour-and-a-half.” –George M! (George)

 

“If you think you’re too cool for band. You’re wrong.” –Abby Hansen

 

Music is the silence between the notes.

Music is what feelings sound like.

School curricula that ignore the arts produce "highly educated Barbarians,"

  -Playwright Edward Albee

 

"No one can take away the one thing i depend on... enjoying the music!" ~ Eric Johnson

 

"Only love and music are forever" - Phantom of the Opera

 

“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.” — Frederic Chopin

 

"As long as there is a song in your heart, there will always be hopes and dreams." - Patrick N. Nagovan

 

"Music is well said to be the speech of angels." ~Thomas Carlyle

 

"Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing." ~Lord Erskine

"Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven." ~Amiel

 

"The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at." ~Horace

 

Jazz will endure as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains." ~John Philip Sousa

 

"Thank you for the music
the songs I'm singin'.
Thanks for all the joy they're bringin'.
Who can live without it?
I ask in all honesty,
what would life be?
Without a song or a dance
what are we?
So I say thank you for the music
for giving it to me." ~ABBA

 

"The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it..." ~Don Herold

"Without Music, we could completely destroy the structure of the space time continuom"
Dr. Emmett Brown

 

"Music is okay with me." -Jack Swart

 

"That's what music is: entertainment. The more you put yourself into it, the more of you comes out in it." - Kurt Cobain