"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

 

 

It is a funny thing, but when I am making music, all the answers I seek for in life seem to be there, in the music. Or rather, I should say, when I am making music, there are no questions and no need for answers. - Gustav Mahler

 

Gustav Mahler was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. A Jew, he was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then the Austrian Empire, now Kaliště in the Czech Republic.

Born: July 7, 1860, Kaliště Died: May 18, 1911, Vienna Height: 5' 4" (1.63 m) Spouse: Alma Mahler Gropius Werfel (m. 1902–1911) Compositions: Symphony No. 5, Symphony no. 2, Symphony No. 1, Das Lied von der Erde, Symphony No. 8, Symphony No. 9, Symphony no. 3, Symphony No. 6, Symphony No. 4, Kindertotenlieder, Symphony No. 7, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Symphony No. 10, Rückert-Lieder, Lieder aus "Des Knaben Wunderhorn", Das klagende Lied, Piano Quartet, Lieder und Gesänge, Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?, In diesem Wetter, Ich atmet' einen linden Duft!, Es sungen drei Engel, Das irdische Leben, Rheinlegendchen, Frühlingsmorgen, Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder, Der Schildwache Nachtlied, Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt, Um Mitternacht, Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz, Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht, Hans und Grete, Nicht wiedersehen, Um schlimme Kinder artig zu machen, Ging heut morgen übers Feld, Zu Straßburg auf der Schanz, Lob des hohen Verstands, Lied des Verfolgten im Turm, Der Einsame im Herbst, Revelge, Oft denk' ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen, Wenn dein Mütterlein, Der Trunkene im Frühling, Humoresken, Zarathustras Mitternachtslied, Starke Einbildungskraft, Scheiden und Meiden, Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen, Hymnus: Veni, creator spiritus, Ich hab' ein glühend Messer Children: Anna Mahler, María Mahler

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

"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

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

"Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin?" - Ludwig Von Beethoven

“Paint pictures with sound. First, find your white—the deepest, roundest sound you can play on the guitar. Then, find your black—which is the most extreme tonal difference from white you can play. Now, just pick the note where you’ve got white, pick it where you’ve got black, and then find all those colors in between. Get those colors down, and you’ll be able to express almost any emotion on the guitar.?" —Les Paul

Lester William Polsfuss —known as Les Paul—was an American jazz, country and blues guitarist, songwriter, luthier and inventor. He was one of the pioneers of the solid-body electric guitar, which made the sound of rock and roll possible.

Born: June 9, 1915, Waukesha Died: August 13, 2009, White Plains Albums: Chester & Lester / Guitar Monsters, Guitar Monsters, Les Paul & Friends: American Made World Played, Chester & Lester, Masters of the Guitar: Together, The Legend and the Legacy, The Best of the Capitol Masters: Selections From "The Legend and the Legacy" Box Set, Bouquet of Roses, Legend & Legacy (disc 2), Isle of Golden Dreams, Volume 1, Isle of Golden Dreams, Volume 3, Isle of Golden Dreams, Volume 4, Isle of Golden Dreams, Volume 2, How High the Moon, Vaya Con Dios, Dream Dust, 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Les Paul Spouse: Mary Ford (m. 1949–1964), Virginia Webb (m. 1938–1949) Children: Gene Paul

"I can't tell you, but I can play it for you."
Epiphone Guitar Co

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

 

 



Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher during the Victorian era.

Born: December 4, 1795, Ecclefechan Died: February 5, 1881, London Spouse: Jane Welsh Carlyle (m. 1826–1866) Education: University of Edinburgh, Annan Academy

"The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved by concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; the motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted." -Shakespeare, from "The Merchant of Venice"

"When played properly, a bari sax should sound like a cello... a cello of death." - Gary Lewis

Gary Lewis is an American musician who was the eponymous leader of Gary Lewis & the Playboys.

Born: July 31, 1946, Los Angeles Songs: This Diamond Ring Music group: Gary Lewis & The Playboys Movies: The Nutty Professor Siblings: Danielle Sarah Lewis, Anthony Lewis, Joseph Lewis Parents: Jerry Lewis, Patti Palmer

"Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies." - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton PC, was an English politician, poet, playwright, and novelist.

Born: May 25, 1803, London Died: January 18, 1873, Torquay Spouse: Rosina Bulwer Lytton (m. 1827–1836) Awards: Chancellor's Gold Medal Movies: The Last Days of Pompeii, Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei, The Christian Martyrs, Damon and Pythias

"Music is the medicine of the breaking heart." - Leigh Hunt

 

 

James Henry Leigh Hunt, best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist, poet and writer.

Born: October 19, 1784, Southgate, London Died: August 28, 1859 Education: Christ's Hospital Children: Thornton Leigh Hunt Siblings: John Leigh Hunt

"When words leave off, music begins." - Heinrich Heine

Heinrich Heine was one of the most significant German poets of the 19th century. He was also a journalist, essayist, and literary critic.

Born: December 13, 1797, Düsseldorf Died: February 17, 1856, Paris Spouse: Crescence Eugénie Mirat (m. 1841–1856) Education: Georg-August University of Göttingen, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Bonn

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. ~Robert G. Ingersoll

 

 

Robert Green "Bob" Ingersoll was a Civil War veteran, American political leader, and orator during the Golden Age of Freethought, noted for his broad range of culture and his defense of agnosticism. He was nicknamed "The Great Agnostic."

Born: August 11, 1833, Dresden Died: July 21, 1899, Dobbs Ferry Place of burial: Arlington National Cemetery Spouse: Eva Parker Siblings: Ebon C. Ingersoll

"Music is an outburst of the soul." - Frederick Delius

 

 

Frederick Theodore Albert Delius, CH was an English composer. Born in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family, he resisted attempts to recruit him to commerce.

Born: January 29, 1862, Bradford Died: June 10, 1934, Grez-sur-Loing Last album: Orchestral Works (English Northern Philharmonia feat. conductor: David Lloyd-Jones) Compositions: A Village Romeo and Juliet, Sea Drift, On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, Koanga, A Song of the High Hills, A Song of Summer, Florida Suite, In a Summer Garden, Fennimore and Gerda, Songs of Farewell, Paris: The Song of a Great City, Eventyr, Il pleure dans mon cœur, Songs of Sunset, The Splendour Falls on Castle Walls, Twilight Fancies, Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit, La lune blanche, American Rhapsody, 'Joy, shipmate, joy', Nach neuen Meeren, 'How sweet the silent backward tracings', Chanson de Fortunio, A Dance Rhapsody No. 1, Birds in the high hall garden, In the Seraglio Garden, I Seraillets Have, Come into the garden, 5 Pieces, Midsummer Song, Der Wandrer, A Mass of Life, Irmelin Rose, An den Sonnenschein, Go not, happy day, 'A song of the setting sun!', A Song Before Sunrise, Abendstimmung, 'Passage to you', Seven Danish Songs, Fünf Gesänge, A late lark, 2 Pieces for Small Orchestra, 'Now finalè to the shore', Five Songs from the Norwegian, Dance for harpsichord, Avant que tu ne t'en ailles, Cynara, Der FichtenbaumMore Education: Bradford Grammar School, Felix Mendelssohn College of Music and Theatre Libretti: A Village Romeo and Juliet, Fennimore and Gerda