QUOTES ABOUT ART, MUSIC, GUITAR QUOTES BY ARTISTS (also see quotes_beatles.html)
compiled by Reza Ganjavi
================================================================================================================ "you know my love goes with you as your love stays with me" Leonard Cohen
One can come across endless harmonies, but just one happens to suit the kind and temperament of the melodies. Beethoven
In
no other art did the Bach miracle occur. To strip human nature down to
its divine core; to endow with spiritual fervour that is most
universally human; to giv divine wings to the flight of the ethereal;
to render the human divine, and the divine human; this is Bach: the
highest, purest musical pinnacle of all time." Pablo Casals
It takes a long time to grow young. — Pablo Picasso, 20th-century Spanish artist
Emerson: "A poet is he who through the eyes of a man preserves the eyes of a child",
"It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them." Hilaire Belloc
The aim and final reason of all music is none else but the glory of God. J.S. Bach
I can not eat with my gloves :) Angela Jaggi
I want to make of my life something that is straight and simple, like a hollow reed, so that god may fill it with music. Mrs. Ida Presti (Genius guitarist - 1924-1967)
I
am a worshipper of the note and the rhythm. If they accept my worship
it is the benediction (meherbani) of Allah. Something
beautiful/magical happens. Otherwise singing is like playing with the
wind. This is not in my control! Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
"A line comes into being. It goes out for a walk, so to speak, aimlessly for the sake of the walk". Paul Klee
"Color
has taken hold of me. I don't have to try to capture it. It will
possess me always. That is the meaning of this happy hour. I know it.
Color and I are one. I am a painter. Paul Klee - 1914, age 35, upon
return from Tunesia. (In 1939 he produced 1253 pieces.)
Music is a manifestation of love... If you are touched by music you are touched by love in a very pure way. Pepe Romero
Nothing is more beautiful than the sound of the guitar. F. Chopin
The guitar is a miniature orchestra in itself. L.V. Beethoven (after hearing Giuliani play)
I love guitar, it plays my heart strings. Carolyn Burns
"I was the enemy of the major studio. I believed in one man - one film. I believed one man should make the film. And I believed the director should be that one man. One man should do it - I didn't give a damn who. I just couldn't accept art as a committee. I could only accept art as an extension of an individual." Frank Capra - Film Director (1897- 1991):
The
artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those
with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great artist depends
precisely on the width and the intensity of his sympathy. Aldous Huxley
Life
without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is
nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music. Friedrich
Nietzsche
One cannot become a guitarist if he has not bathed in the fountain of culture. Agustin Barrios Mangore
============================= Where
someone sing stay, cause wicket people don’t know any songs – a German
saying. (WO MAN SINGT, DA LASS DICH NIEDER, BOESE LEUTE KENNEN KEINE
LIEDE (Wo man singt da lass dich nieder, böse Leute
kennen keine Lieder.
Where one sings, there settle down. Vicious people don't know any songs.
Where one sings, there make your home. Bad people don't know any songs.
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"Mozart is too easy for beginners and too difficult for artists" -- Artur Schnabel
"I get the most joy out of my violin. I often think in music, I see my life in terms of music." Albert Einstein
Music doesn’t lie. If there’s something to be changed in
this world, then it can only happen through music. Jimi Hendrix
After silence that which would come nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Aldous Huxley
If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing. Zimbabwe Proverb
Only sick music makes money today. Nietzsche
And,
as my father [Duke] used to tell me growing up, "Play it beautiful,
play it beautiful." He said, "I don’t care if you don’t hit all
of the notes. If you don’t move a person’s heart, it’s not
music." Christopher Parkening
The duty of the artist was to bring light to the human spirit. Robert Schumann
somehow
with a good piece of music you can do whatever you want if you do it
good. (markus schmid speaking about Gould playing Goldberg fast young
and much slower when he was older)
Sebastian said, "The sole
object of all music should be the glory of God and pleasant
recreation." His music gave God the glory and our family much pleasure.
The guitar's most special quality is its ability to shape the dying away of a sound into silence - John Williams
"I love the guitar for its harmony; it is my constant companion on all my travels." - Niccolo Paganini
Every musician should be able to dance the music he just played. Anonym
"The harmonic effects produced unconsciously by our guitarists are one of the miracles of natural art." - Manuel de Falla
A good composer does not imitate; he steals. Igor Stravinsky
"the most important things are almost impossible to teach, unless they are already known" Eduardo Fernandez
It’s
easy to forget - Don’t forget to ground – specially when there’s danger
– have to grow roots else you fly like butterfly. Look down – ground is
under your feet and head on spine. Oscar Ghiglia (in guitar class)
"It's important that when you finish something you use that end to start a new beginning" Oscar Ghiglia (in music academy)
(paraphrazing:)
God did not give the gift of music to everyone. The ones who have that
gift must use it to make others happy. Mstislav Rostropovich
Segovia once told Parkening that a piece should be played in concert for one year before you even think about recording it.
The
guitar is a meditative tool to touch God and find love within
yourself. Look for the perfect truth in the pieces you play.
Playing a piece too fast is betraying the truth to ourselves and the
universe, producing more garbage sounds a littering the universe.
Nerves never attack a person in love. Pepe Romero Jul 5, 1998
Claude
Debussy about the guitar: “The guitar is an expressive harpsichord.” It
was after he listened to my playing that the great master was inspired
to say this sentence. Many people are not aware of that, but I want to
point it out with the legitimate pride of an artist.” - Llobet
There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music. Pepe Romero
“The most basic communication that you can have with a listener comes through a firm beat. It’s like a cable. If
this cable is firm then you can transmit everything through that - if
you break this, nothing else can come through.” Eduardo Fernandez
All you need is ears. - George Martin
“For
twelve years I studied and worked at them every day, and I was nearly
25 before I had the courage to play one of them in public. Before I
did, no violinist or cellist had ever played a Suite in its entirety”.
Pablo Casals re: Bach Cello Suites
Real music has nothing to do with the stuff of competitions, nothing at all. - David Leisner
The
guitar, by its very nature, the nature of its sound, by the soft nuance
of its powerful and ancient voice, by the magic of the tone, goes
directly to the part of oneself where love is felt. When I hear the
sound of the guitar, it goes to some part inside of me that opens the
door that holds feelings of love and everything that is beautiful which
lives inside of me. Pepe Romero
The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination. Carlos Santana
I
was my own teacher and pupil, in a comradeship so firm and persevering
that the most trying incidents of my life served only to strengthen the
union... Andres Segovia
"Without music, Life would be a mistake"-Fredericke Nietszche
Leo
Brower: I don't have any limits, or feel any limits in the guitar. I
consider it a small orchestra, and almost perfect. People discover that
the guitar has a very small sound. This could be a defect or a quality.
I consider it a quality for intimacy. The guitar has all the colors,
and the polyphony, and many, many things - except powerful sound. You
can communicate completely. And there's a magic tone that you can get
out of the guitar. In fact, the guitar is one of the few minor
instruments, like harpsichord and recorder, which not only remains but
develops and grows. The polyphony which has evolved with the guitar
helps to include a modern language, along with the heritage form the
Renaissance up to now. So we are millionaires in terms of repertoire,
color and expressiveness! Other instruments have magic but not history.
We have all!
"Too
many students who are technically quite far advanced do not properly
interpret the technically less difficult pieces they play, because they
regard them as beneath serious consideration. This is a
fundamental error in musical taste and
judgment." --Leopold Auer
"can't play electronic drums - that's not right - gotto get acoustic drums - you can't do that" Phil Maynes talking about Angie
Like a boxer's punch, one good note is all it takes. Angel Romero
"You (artists) must learn to love the art in yourself rather than yourself in the art." - Constantin Stanislavsky “Artists, whether they’re classical
musicians or pop musicians, they have always been the reflection of society,
and in many ways a healing part of whatever is wrong in society, and I think
it’s important for us to continue to do that, and I don’t see enough of it
today.” George Duke
A
musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if
he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be,he must
be. Abraham Maslow
"La guitarra es como una dama.. donde no cabe
la escusa de mírame y no me toques" Gaspar Sanz. 1640 (The guitar is
like a lady... there's no room for the excuse of "look at me, but don't
touch me") ("TOCAR" means in Spanish two things: touch or play. So
"play the guitar" is "TOCAR la guitarra", and "touch a woman" is
"TOCAR la mujer")
"A work of art is good if it has sprung from necessity." Rainer Maria Rilke
The
purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline
but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and
serenity. Glenn Gould
Art is not in some far-off place. A work
of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and
ability. Shinichi Suzuki
Stravinsky used to say, play what's written, don't worry.
Just like a prayer, your voice can take me there. Madonna Ciccone
"I
belong to the scarce minority of artists who work in good faith, around
whom the phenomenal world vanishes, as it happens to the mystics when
they give themselves to prayer". Andres Segovia
Shadows have
their boundaries at certain determinable points. He who is ignorant of
these will produce work without relief; and the relief is the summit
and the soul of painting. Leonardo
Black is only black when you have no light – Ruedi Staub
"It is always about discovering what, hidden, does not lie on the paper". Andres Segovia
The first thing I would take with me to an island is music. Sandra Lazzari
A
man of position/money is respected for his position/money – but an
artist is loved…. When god loves you he selects you and says I love
you, go play music, it’s right. Homayoon Khorram
You should only play pieces that you're willing to marry. Pepe Romero
When
you make music you do it for the right reason: love. Love is the desire
of well being, desire to heal the wounded, the person in pain, the
person who has problems - to touch the person who needs love. The love
inside you manifests through sound, vibration and embraces everyone in
the room. Pepe Romero
This is the fascination of this instrument (guitar) - it makes people happy. Sandra Papachristos
the artist must be acquainted with the method of persuading
others. Picasso
A painter should create that which he experiences. Picasso
it's not worth while for one to trouble oneself to fight the
narrow-minded, because prevailing over them is of no value. Picasso
Music induces nightingales to sing, pug dogs to yelp." -Robert Schumann
Music
is the pleasure of the human soul experiences from counting without
being aware that it is counting. - Gottfried Leibniz
I
don't know, with a piano, in a sense you're stuck with the sound of the
piano so you can only do things which use that sound. Anyway, I never
cease to be amazed by what you can say with the guitar. John Williams
Ha,
I'm just a schmuck who loves music and would love to see this society
like me more as a musician than a programmer. Larry Deack.
Sound comes out of silence and goes back to silence. Sound comes out of nothing and goes back to nothing.
Superior musical neurology may manifest itself as an excruciating sensitivity to sound. - Robert Jourdain
Be a musician first and a guitarist second - Juan Mercadol
music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Beethoven.
The guitar is one of the most calming instruments. Birgit
Just
pretend you're dancing in the living room when you're listening to the
music you like - you move to what you like - pretend you're making the
music yourself. - Camilla Noble-Warren.
"I work with many jazz
artists as Miles Davis, Laughlin, etc.. One of the things all these
artists had in common is that they had no fear." George Duke
To
increase speed you must increase the amount of rest, peace, calmness
that you can maintain. That is the secret to playing fast. Pepe Romero
What is the function of every single note? God is in the detail.
Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes. I thought it was there for good so I never tried -- Leonard Cohen
Musicianship starts with listening, loving, and wanting to reproduce - Jerry Bickford
"Music
is endless... And even though I have heard a whole lot of it, and
fallen in love with all kinds of it over the years. There is still
something - I guess it`s just called freedom" Jeff Buckley (1966 - 1997)
"There is only one thing more beautiful than on guitar - Two guitars" Frederic Chopin
I think Townshend is the father of the electric guitar. Vivienne McLaughlin
Life without music is horrible! Alkis Yannakopoulos
The pleasure of playing a fine guitar will long outlive the pain of the initial price. Ray Fair
When
we reached the top everyone was dying: Jimmy Hendrix, Jim Morrison,
Hanis Joplin... There were 2 alternatives: Heroin or spiritual
meditation. Carlos Santana
Life without music is very bad - very sad. Muriel Laterali
She'll come back. Women always do. From Emmanuelle
Frank Zappa: "The quality of some tracks on this album may not be as good as some of the others, but what the fuck!"
Music takes you to a place where time doesn't exist and gravity doesn't exist and fear doesn't exist.... Carlos Santana
"Practicing
something fast rarely leads to perfection, but working on accuracy
always leads to the ability to play faster." - Jody Fischer -
from "Beginning Jazz Guitar"
Music is spiritual orgasm. Miles Davis
A guitarist is as good as his/her vibrato. Francisco Herrera.
Charles Ives: "Time will throw its vices away and weld its virtues into the fabric of our music."
Louis Armstrong: "All music is folk music, Ain't never heard no horse sing a song!"
The co-star of every picture is the light. Goran Gaspar
"For
you TG, music is a competition and you are obsessed with measuring
everything then putting people in their proper place on your spectrum
of musicians. THAT is a significantly unmusical deficiency that really
gets your way, in more ways than one." Larry Deack
He never gave
up until he got whe he wanted. Sometimes he didn't know how to get it,
but he knew always what he didn't want and there'd be no compromises.
[an actress about the great director, David Lynn ]
She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys, that she calls friends -- from Hotel California by Eagles.
"This
music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that
you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for." --Bruce Springsteen
"I don't play the clarinet. I speak music." Giora Feidman (clarinetist with Israel Philharmonic)
"Oceans
are an acoustic environment, and the species that live there have an
acute acoustic sense. If we interfere with these critical behaviors, we
may be affecting not just individual animals, but entire populations."
Frederick O'Regan
Roger Daltry: ‘Pete is almost stone deaf,’ he says sadly. ‘He deafened
himself in the recording studio, and when we last performed he had to stand
right next to the speakers to hear anything.' ‘People ask how I feel about singing the same songs I’ve
been singing for 40-odd years but they don’t understand that when I’m singing
it that night, it is like I will be singing it for the first time.’‘We tend to think of age only in time, but I don’t think it
has much to do with time at all; there’s a whole load of other things,’ he
says. ‘I’ve met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young.
"Dear Will, perhaps your mediocrity is due to
your unwillingness to seek out links between aesthetics and
politics. I urge you do so. Pablo"
"....... i once heard
an expert on the music of Azerbaijan state, in all seriousness, that
the ills of the modern world are caused by equal temperment." Mark
Delpriora
If you really sing with your heart then there's nothing closer to your soul than your voice. Franziska Hegi.
"I don't want to be a film star. I don't even want to be a pop star. I just want to live in peace.'' - Former Beatle George Harrison.
If
you follow nature you will not be able to vanquish the tragic in any
real degree in your art... We must free ourselves from our attachment
to the external, for only then do we transcend the tragic, and are
enabled consciously to contemplate the repose which is within all
things." Piet Mondrian
Guitar is the most beautiful instrument. Elizabeth L.
"The best part really is once I'm up on the stage." Harry Wayne Casey, of KC and The Sunshine Band,
Music is a miracle (Ilana)
What's
a nice girl like you doing in a place like this, they don't make girls
like you no more. And I like to get to know you on closer terms terms
than this, but I guess you've heard it all before. Entwhistle (The Who:
Trick of the light)
Our life must have an aim, but we must also ensure that the direction we take is a good one. Yehudi Menuhin
Everyone should in some way be creative, irrespective of the quality of that which he creates. Yehudi Menuhin
The
ultimate aim in life should be to fulfill to the utmost all that within
our ability and to share that which is good and beautiful. Yehudi
Menuhin
Life is not a finished product, it is only what we make
of it, and if we make nothing of it, someone else will, and we will be
his slave. Yehudi Menuhin
A road to a world with no borders, no
boundaries, no flags, no countries, Where the heart is the only
passport you carry. - Carlos Santana
You can never say if a colour is nice - it depends on where you place it. Frau Schmid A society without its dreamers can never be free. Yehudi Menuhin
Searching and the route we take are more important than making a find. Yehudi Menuhin
In reality, infinity is merely the distance to the heart of a stranger. Eternity is the moment of cognition. Yehudi Menuhin
...
They will bring their music to the people of the Saanenland, to their
churches, schools, hospitals, clubs and old age homes and then to the
concert platforms of Europe and the wider world. Yehudi Menuhin
A
way of life which excludes the realm of the unknown and the mysterious
is simply not in harmony with life itself. Yehudi Menuhin
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Plato: Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Albert
Einstein: 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.
Henry David Thoreau: When I hear music, I fear
no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the
earliest times, and to the latest.
Plato: The gods who have
been appointed to be our companions in the dance, have given us the
pleasurable sense of harmony and rhythm; and so they stir us to life,
and we follow them, joining together in dances and songs.
John
Adams: I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to
study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics
and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture,
navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a
right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary,
tapestry, and porcelain. ================================================================================================================
CELEDONIO ROMERO
"La Guitara". Celedonio Romero's last words.
Life is a vacation God gives to you! - Celedonio Romero
The
Andalucían race is very strong. Another mystery-- it has the most
jealous people in the world, both men and women! - Celedonio Romero
Music is the most spiritual language for the human being. - Celedonio Romero
When it is possible that people don't understand my English, I take my guitar and speak with my music! - Celedonio Romero
I
never used too much discipline; the great discipline is love. What is
my secret? It's a great secret: all the time love, all the time love.
Never violence. That doesn't work; that will ruin them completely. The
only, only way is love, love, love! Did I ever have to tell them to
practice? No, no, no, no, no. It was easy. I just set the example. I
would say, "Well, now I need to practice," and my sons would follow me.
It was very easy.
Age is not important, because the heart is the
same all the time. Time is infinite. It's not important. The secret is
to be careful with the body. Don't smoke, don't drink
alcohol. (the only meat he ate was fish).
> It is a little known fact that one of the earliest known examples of a > guitar is one made out of stone, found in an old Neanderthal cave in > Europe. Tests indicate that it dates from about 70,000 BC. As such it > was the first rock guitar.
He
wanted me to make that beautiful Segovia sound and spent a lot of
time on hand position and being relaxed. He also wanted no unnecessary
hand movement. He taught about control of tone color and that technique
is not about speed, but is for control of dynamics. (John Willims about
his father)
Stay away from trouble when you can. Kenny Rogers (?)
I don't play the guitar, I play with the guitar.... No guitar can be perfectly tuned. Jacques Vincenti
Every
child has innate musical capacity. If we're not tapping in and finding
ways to develop that ability, w're not doing our job" Dr. Linda P. Nelly
The guitar is my favorite instrument. I like piano and violin too but guitar is something else. Arash Alavi
What's
a nice girl like you, doing in a place like this? They don't make girls
like you no more...and I like to get to know you in closer terms than
this, but I guess you've heard it all before..... (From The Who's
"Trick of the light" by John Entwhistle
"Everything comes in due time: when you can handle it." Sayrah Garrison
"The
only reason to play the guitar is that we can have different (colors)
sounds. Which is the other reason? We don’t have volume, we have more
polyphony than flute but less than piano, the range of the sound is
limited. No other reason than the color, quality of the sound." Luigi
Biscaldi The only reason we play the guitar is that we can have
different sounds. What are the other reasons to the play the guitar?
Not for volume, not for polyphony (more than flute but less than
piano), not for range of sound, but for the color, the quality of the
sound. Luigi Biscaldi
Good music also needs fine interpreters who strive to keep the flame of art burning. Able Carlevaro 15/1/92
I don't have amazing lyrical ability I just know how to
speak on what I been through and where I came from," he said. Slim Dunkin
"A big talent steals, a small talent borrows". Anthony Quinn (re: arts)
"I love, love, love women". Anthony Quinn
Wanna start learning how to play the guitar as well. Must be the most beautiful thing you can do in life. Brigitte G.
If
people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem
wonderful at all. --Michelangelo Buonarroti (Caprese, near Arezzo 1475
- Rome 1564)
Tony Blair said the Beatles were "the background to out lives."
"I
always really enjoyed our early days, before we got too famous. We used
to play clubs and that kind of stuff all the time. And it was
fun. It was good because you get to play and get quite good at the
instrument. But then we got famous, and it spoiled all that, because
we'd just go round and round the world singing the same 10 dopey
tunes." George Harrison
"Although I have guitars all around and
I pick themm up occasionally and write a tune and make a record, I
don't really see myself as a musician. It may seem a funny thing to
say. It's just like, I write lyrics amd I make up songs, but I'm not a
great lyricist or songwriter or producer. It's when you put all these
things together - that makes me." George Harrison
"Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait" ... "Love one another"... George Harrison
Art is the lie that helps us see the truth. Pablo Picasso
I
don't have a computer. I have an electric typewriter and a piano.
Between the typewriter, the piano, and the phone, that's all I need.
Marie Pooler
Theories of art carry the seeds of their own destruction. Steven Pinker
Bach put his whole heart into his organ music. Linda Rickli (organist)
If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing. African saying relayed by C. Wellen
I always thought you could use music of JSBach to illustrate anything. Julie Archer
"You got 13 channels of shit on the TV to choose from". Pink Floyd
A man who can laugh at himself delivers all men from the burden of their vanity. (x about chaplin)
"I committed this act for attention... to, in a sense, steal John Lennon's fame and put it on myself." Mark Chapman.
Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them. — Elvis Presley
If you let your head get too big, it'll break your neck.' — Elvis Presley “Happiness is knowin' you've done a good job, whether it's professional of for another person.” - Elvis Presley
Sharing money is what gives it its value. — Elvis Presley
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away. — Elvis Presley
Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do.' — Elvis Presley
--------------- Elvis’s brother:
“John
Lennon and and Brian Epstein knocked on the door - Lennon was shaking:
Is elvis home?” ‘That’s when I knew Elvis presley is hot.’
“I never picked up a guitar until I heard Elvis Presley”. John Lennon ‘After hearing this I started paying attention to Elvis’ ‘He loved to give – to give to people.’
Zeppelin
members walked out of the plane - they were speechless. Elvis said,
nice plane where did you buy it from? They said we lease it from
Cezar’s – Elvis said: I own mine.
Elvis always said: “When it ceases to be fun, quit”
Joe Strummer of the Clash died in (Born John Graham Mellors) [ankara 21 aug 1952 – Somerset 22 dec 2002]
It
was the great London Calling that sealed their reputation. Voted best
record of the Seventies and Eighties (because of different release
dates on each side of the pond), this extraordinary LP threw blues,
rockabilly, reggae, ska, rock and soul into a glorious blend.
They virtually gave their music away: London Calling sold for four quid, Sandinista! For a mere six.
Bono (U2’s frontman): The Clash was the greatest rock band. They wrote the rulebook for U2”.
“To meet Joe was to meet a man with a teenager’s passion and an old blues singer’s pain”. James Brown.
I wish we were still together today. It was a god band but the trouble was we fell to ego.
[in concert: ] No Elvis, Beatles or Rolling Stones… But John Lennon rules OK?
Ringo
Starr says his first love will always be playing for audiences.
“Sometimes it’s the most spiritual plane that you ever get to. On
certain nights there is nothing better. So I am blessed as long as I
can hold the sticks.
I love people to say, 'You know, I've heard you play that song a thousand times, but the way you played it tonight, you made it personal for me,"' Carlos Santana beams.
"You
have to be able to pull the audience from their worries and problems
and their rent. We exist by God's grace and the rent will be taken care
of," Carlos explains with a voice filled with compassion and comfort.
"Music is a healing balm. If you don't get contact with the audience,
you need to find another job."
"I was born with a certain
mechanism in my body that I needed the blues," Santana explains. "You
can make Hebrews, Japanese or Mexicans feel the exact same way with
just one note."
“in spain it's well respect - the guitar
doesnt have to fight for a place like it has to in many other
countries. it's nice that it's not an odd thing to be a guitarist.”
David Russell
"I teach my children that there are a lot of
people in the world with their finger on the trigger, ready to kill or
commit suicide. Music is a gift of God to disarm those people. By
playing a note that makes them laugh, cry and dance, they throw the
damn gun away and they see possibilities. Music reminds us that we have
a choice. Music is meant to heal the world."
Do not expect,
whether you are an amateur or a professional, to find any profound
intention in these compositions, but rather an ingenious jesting with
art by means of which you may attain freedom in harpsichord playing. It
was not self-interest or ambition which led me to publish them, but
obedience. Perhaps they may please you, in which case I may more
willingly obey further commands to gratify you in a simpler and more
varied style. D.Scarlatti
“You look in her eyes; the music begins to play; Hopeless romantics, here we go again” The Eagles ==================================================
"I love music, I feel it: my studies of harmony and counterpoint have acquainted me with the movement of the nature of the chords and their inversions, with the way of passing from the melody to the bass or to some of the internal parts..."
Fernando Sor
"Their [the bad guitarists] astonishment [for Sor's music] comes only from the way they conceive the guitar: with maintaining that such an instrument is mainly devoted to accompaniement, they begin to treat it as an instrument for melody...with using the faculties of their left hand for the melody..."
But you can't change the fact that it all began with Segovia and his sound. We wouldn't be here now if it weren't for him.
So in summary, guitarists are bad technicians, bad sight-readers, bad at playing ensemble, bad listeners and don't know their instrument as well as they should.
I
don't like or approve of competitions on any instrument. I don't think
music can be evaluated like a race - I know that's an obvious thing to
say and that there are many ifs and buts involved, because they do
help some artists and concentrate the public's attention on music. But
I particularly don't like the way many guitar competitions are run, the
confusing way points are awarded differently in each round of a
competition, and especially the over-exploitation of the "Big Winner"
and the competitive values that puts on players and the activity of
guitar playing itself. Winning is a matter of taste in most cases, and
there are often many other equally deserving competitors other than
just the First Prize recipient. I feel it would be fairer to have a
select group of finalists, each of whom receives the same award and
status.
I have served on juries in the past, but these days I
refuse to take part, and I feel it is important to take that stand
otherwise your reservations have no meaning.
Guitarists are
among the worst sight-readers I've come across. Julian Bream and I are
both dead average sight-readers by orchestral standards, but among guitarists, we are outstanding! This is an area of the guitar that has been poorly taught up until recently.
"...all
the arts aspire to the condition of music, which is pure form. Music,
states of happiness, mythology, faces scored by time, certain
twilights, certain places, all want to tell us something, or told us
something, we should not have missed, or are about to tell us
something. This imminence of a revelation that does not take place is,
perhaps, the esthetic fact."
Jorge Luis Borges "The Wall and the Books"
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From:
The Effects of Different Music Instruments Used for Accompaniment on
Participation for Persons Diagnosed with Probable Alzheimer's Disease -
by Mary Lou Fitzgerald-Cloutier
Of the instruments, the guitar produced the most positive responses in the persons involved in this investigation
The unaccompanied singing sessions consistently yielded the most positive responses.
The piano appeared to encourage the lowest frequency of positive responses in the group.
"How
about the Dixie Chicks and the whack they took (for criticizing Bush)?
They're not backing down," he added. "None of these artists are putting
their career above their own sense of morality and obligation."
The
stamina required to play some of the big works is considerable. Someone
calculated that it takes the equivalent energy of shovelling three tons
of coal just to move the keys in Rachmaninov’s Third Concerto - and
this does not take into account the emotional and intellectual energy
used! [unknown]
"Music
is the birthright of the people. The great composers whose music is
timeless have a message for all who will hear it. Music is not the
property of a small group of inititates or a priveleged few to whom its
secrets are alone vouchsafed. It exists for our
enjoyment, physically, mentally and spiritually..." - Eugene Goossens -
Former director of the N.S.W. Conservatorium of Music.
Beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real - Pete Townshend
Any fool can hide, few can play - Pete Townshend
What's
a nice girl like you, doing in a place like this, they don't make girls
like you no more, and I'd like to get to know you , on closer terms
than this, but I guess you've heard it all before." Pete Townshend
Townshend : "I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal components deaf," "Hearing
loss is a terrible thing because it cannot be repaired. If you use an
iPod or anything like it, or your child uses one, you MAY be OK ... But
my intuition tells me there is terrible trouble ahead." "The
downside may be that on our computers — for privacy, for respect to
family and co-workers, and for convenience — we use earphones at almost
every stage of interaction with sound."...
================================================================================================================ Rick Rubin:
When
I'm listening, I'm looking for a balance that you could see in
anything. Whether it's a great painting or a building or a sunset.
There's just a natural human element to a great song that feels
immediately satisfying. I like the song to create a mood."
"I
never really liked the Stones," he said. "Although, I loved the Monkees
— they had all the best songwriters." Through his passion for the
Beatles, he became fascinated by the seductive, addictive power of
songs.
Rubin works slowly — it can take him years to finish an
album. "A lot of that is because of the songs," Rubin explained. "I try
to get the artist to feel like they are writing songs for the ages
rather than songs for an album.
"most people will write 10
songs and think, That's enough for a record, I'm done. When they play
the songs for me, invariably the last two songs they've written are the
best. I'll then say, 'You have two songs, go back and write eight
more.' "
There was a time when if you had something that wasn't
so good, through muscle and lack of other choices, you could push that
not very good product through those channels. And that's how the music
business functioned for 50 years. Well, the world has changed. And the
industry has not."
"You feel the rhythm of the planet more
keenly. I am never this aware of sunrise and sunset when I'm in town.
The daily changes of nature at the beach can be deeply affecting."
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