Blown Out Reed
169 posts
Jun 08, 2010
5:56 PM
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"Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread--without it, it's flat." Carmen McRae
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nacoran
2044 posts
Jun 08, 2010
6:45 PM
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'If you want to listen to music, listen to Bach. If you want to enjoy it, listen to Mozart'
I'm not sure who originally said it, but my Grandmother used to say it. I'm actually more of a Bach guy, but I've always liked it anyway.
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Nate
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JDH
147 posts
Jun 08, 2010
6:57 PM
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"Jazz isn't dead, it just smells funny" -Frank Zappa
"Many of the older
players are set in their ways, and have developed a taste for music
that, may seem to some people, to be frozen in time".--Smokey Joe Leone
"If you love these blues, play them as you please"-- Micheal Bloomfield
"Ain't no such thing as Chicago blues, Texas blues, Memphis blues, or West Coast blues, it's just the blues, man!"--Albert Collins
"When I'm gone, they're gonna say he couldn't play shit, but he sure could make it sound good." --HoundDog Taylor
"A song is like a woman's dress. It has to be long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to keep you interested".--James Harman
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long
plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die
like dogs. There's also a negative side."
--Hunter S. Thompson
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Last Edited by on Jun 08, 2010 7:39 PM
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MP
454 posts
Jun 08, 2010
7:34 PM
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1)Arturo Toscanini to an orchestra after a particularly unsatisfactory performance.
"ASSASINS!"
2)Arturo Toscanini to an orchestra during rehersal.
"God tells me how music is supposed to sound, and you're standing in the way!"
Last Edited by on Jun 08, 2010 7:41 PM
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nacoran
2046 posts
Jun 08, 2010
8:04 PM
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Unos, dos, tres, catorce- Bono
(Some, 2, 3, 14 for those of you who don't speak Spanish, uno would have been 1, and there are all sorts of conspiracy theories on why he said it, but according to Wikipedia Bono said alcohol may have been involved.)
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Nate
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Jim Rumbaugh
230 posts
Jun 08, 2010
8:22 PM
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"if you really love music, don't do it for a living" - unknown
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oda
346 posts
Jun 08, 2010
8:34 PM
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"If y'wanna play, play -- don't talk"
-- Oda
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I could be bound by a nutshell and still count myself a king of infinite space
OdaHUMANITY!
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GamblersHand
191 posts
Jun 09, 2010
4:11 AM
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Jazz? That's just a blues band being pushed down a flight of stairs.
- Otis Lee Crenshaw
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5F6H
179 posts
Jun 09, 2010
4:41 AM
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“Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands - and all you can do is scratch it”
Sir Thomas Beecham to a cellist.
“It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes.”
Beecham, again.
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Nastyolddog
869 posts
Jun 09, 2010
5:04 AM
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Sonny Boy Williamson
These Boys wanna play the blues so badley,,
and believe me you they do:(
Last Edited by on Jun 09, 2010 5:04 AM
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Ev630
588 posts
Jun 09, 2010
5:08 AM
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Mark, the first Beecham quote is one of my favourites.
A relevant one for harp is as follows:
"Try taking the horn outta your mouth."
Miles Davis, responding to John Coltrane's comment that he didn't know how to end his increasingly super-long solos.
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saregapadanisa
220 posts
Jun 09, 2010
5:15 AM
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"In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time."
- Charles Mingus
"Leave your ego, play the music, love the people."
- Luther Allison
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toddlgreene
1426 posts
Jun 09, 2010
5:47 AM
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I didn't actually make it to HCH, but a few very reliable sources related this quote from Johnny Sansone in the infamous CCHC cabin at Wall-Doxey...
'BLOW that mother****er!'
-directed towards a certain forum member, whom I will let identify themselves if they so choose.
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Todd L Greene, Co-Founder
Last Edited by on Jun 10, 2010 11:19 AM
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JimInMO
62 posts
Jun 09, 2010
5:50 AM
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"If you liked that, you should have heard what I was trying to play". Or something like that attributed to Thelonious Monk.
Last Edited by on Jun 10, 2010 6:08 AM
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The Gloth
398 posts
Jun 09, 2010
6:04 AM
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"La musique, c'est pour les oreilles" (Music is for the ears).
- Toots Thielemans, answering to a journalist asking if he played german music as well as others during WW II.
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The Gloth
399 posts
Jun 09, 2010
7:03 AM
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"I met a lot of blind men who all said they were happy to see me"
- Marc Lelangue, belgian bluesman, about his time in the U.S.
"You're unhappy ? You want to be a little more unhappy ? I'm the man you need"
- the same, usually before playing.
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ElkRiverHarmonicas
446 posts
Jun 10, 2010
5:09 AM
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"If you ain't got timing, you ain't got sh;t."
My Grandpa Cecil Payne
Last Edited by on Jun 10, 2010 5:10 AM
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waltertore
638 posts
Jun 10, 2010
11:09 AM
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"If you are thinking, you are just notes, riffs, and scales. If you aren't thinking you are music." Walter Tore (6/10/10)
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scojo
10 posts
Jun 10, 2010
11:11 AM
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"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." -Berthold Auerbach
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Scrapboss
89 posts
Jun 10, 2010
11:15 AM
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"I have a high tolerance for boredom as long as it has a groove" - Scrapboss
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barbequebob
900 posts
Jun 10, 2010
12:20 PM
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"If you ain't got timing, you ain't got sh;t."
Now that is a VERY true statement. It's much like what Duke Ellington once said "it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing." A more modern version of that once said to me in my early years by an old black pro musician was, "if it ain't got a groove, then the people will move......but out the door to some other club." Let me tell you, that is 100% the cold, hard, brutal truth!!!
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nacoran
2067 posts
Jun 10, 2010
2:09 PM
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"Yeah, Yeah, Yeah." The Beatles.
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Nate
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snakes
527 posts
Jun 10, 2010
2:38 PM
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"I love your voice, but you need to put that harmonica back in your pocket." - My wife when I played a song for her in the first year of my harp journey.
"Serve the song." - Grant Dermody (most likely a common saying).
"Bobby, I'm sorry you got a head like a potato." - Frank Zappa OOPS! That is a song lyric!
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Honkin On Bobo
299 posts
Jun 11, 2010
3:32 AM
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I love that waltertore's favorite music quote is his own......awesome.
as for my favorite: "I don't believe in Beatles I just believe in me."
John Lennon
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Ev630
596 posts
Jun 11, 2010
3:42 AM
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"I'm gonna get me a ham sammich."
Ev630 ~ 06/11/2010
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tmf714
155 posts
Jun 11, 2010
4:57 AM
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Interviwer: "Becuase I don't hear any saxophonist now who isn't playing something that you haven't at least sketched out before-maybe you would rather not think about that".
Coltrane: "No,because like it's a big resevoir,that we all dip out of. And a lot of times,you'll find that those things-I listened to John Gilmore kind of closley before I made "Chasin' the Trane," too. So some of those things on there are really direct influences of listening to this cat,you see. But then I don't know who he'd been listening to,so...."
Last Edited by on Jun 11, 2010 4:58 AM
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atty1chgo
11 posts
Jun 11, 2010
5:08 AM
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"Bebop is the music of the future" - Dexter Gordon
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yogi
19 posts
Jun 11, 2010
11:54 AM
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''it dont mean a thing if it ain't got that swing''
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The7thDave
119 posts
Jun 11, 2010
12:44 PM
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"Listening is the first step and the last step." - Cantus the Minstrel
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--Dave
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bluzlvr
370 posts
Jun 11, 2010
2:22 PM
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Here's a quote from Tom Petty in today's L.A. Times:
"Everyone thinks they can knock off a 12-bar [blues], but to do it right takes a little time and you have to mature a little bit. I don't think we could have made this record in the '80s. I don't think our heads were in that spot."
(Discussing his latest record, "Mojo".)
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gene
493 posts
Jun 11, 2010
3:08 PM
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"Guitar groups are on the way out."
and
"The Beatles have no future in show business."
--Decca records
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gene
494 posts
Jun 11, 2010
3:11 PM
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"If this band makes it, I'll have to commit suicide." (About Uriah Heep)
Mellisa Mills of Rolling Stone magazine
Last Edited by on Jun 11, 2010 3:12 PM
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Greg Heumann
522 posts
Jun 12, 2010
8:05 AM
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"Eschew Obfuscation"
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/Greg
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easyed
27 posts
Jun 12, 2010
8:28 AM
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"Take out your false teeth momma, I want to suck on your gums." - Peter Wolf
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