MUSIC - PART -2

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Jazz is a good barometer of freedom…In its beginning, the United States of America spawned creative ideals of freedom and independence though, eventually, jazz was evolved; and the music is so free that many people say that it is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country. – Duke Ellington

“Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you.”– George M. Cohan (after each live performance)

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. – Dolly Parton

“In this life, one thing counts, / In the bank, large amounts, / I’m afraid they don’t grow on trees / You’ve got to pick a pocket or two…” – Fagin (Ron Moody) breaking into song to new recruit, Oliver, and his gang of pickpockets. – OLIVER! – Lional Bart (Writer) – 1968

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language. – Herbie Hancock

I once shook hands with Pat Boone and my whole right side sobered up. – Dean Martin

I have hope in people, in individuals.  Because you don’t know what’s going to rise from the ruins. – Joan Baez

Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. – Garth Brooks

I did write a letter to the archdiocese who had banned the song, ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG, asking them to ban my next record. – Billy Joel

There are notes between notes, you know. – Sarah Vaughn

John Lennon’s IMAGINE probably gets a close to transcending all cultural barriers as any song. It recognizes equality as one of mankind’s best measures for peace.  Its universal appeal is personified in the desire for brotherhood, something so sadly lacking in our age of worldwide intolerance. – Gary Pulliam

Heartache is a very fertile ground for song-making, but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss. – k. d. lang

Sinatra is a singer that comes along once in a lifetime, but why did he have to come in mine? – Bing Crosby

Drama if I sing; drama if I don’t sing.  What do you do? – Montserrat Caballe

A song is a lot of things.  But, first of all, a song is a voice of its time. Setting words to the music gives them weight, makes them somehow easier to say, helps them to be remembered. – Richard Rodgers

I don’t play anything but the blues, but now I could never make no money on nothin’ but the blues.  That’s why I wasn’t interested in nothin’ else. – Howlin’ Wolf

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Only music clarifies, reconciles and consoles.  But it is not a straw just barely clutched at.  It is a faithful friend, protector and comforter, and for its sake alone, life in the world is worth living. – Pyotr Tchaikovsky

“The music is all around us, all you have to do is listen.” – August Rush (Freddie Highmore) – AUGUST RUSH – Nick Castle / James V. Hart (Screenplay) – 2007

Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with a hillbilly hoedown. – Loretta Lynn

If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last forever because great songs outlast the artist and they will go on forever if they are good. – Elton John

The only thing better than singing is, more singing. – Ella Fitzgerald

I have so much fun on the stage that I should have to pay to get in. – Marty Robbins

Everybody started called my music rock and roll, but it wasn’t anything but the same rhythm and blues I’d been playing down in New Orleans. – Fats Domino

That’s all non-violence is—organized love. – Joan Baez

“What did you think of it yourself?  Did you like it at all?” – Mozart (Tom Hulce) “I thought it was marvelous.” – Antonio Solieri (F. Murray Abraham)                        Mozart:  “Of course!  It’s the best opera yet written, I know it…Why don’t they come?”             Solieri:  “I think you overestimate the Viennese, my friend.  You know you don’t even have a good BANG at the end of the songs, to let them know when to clap.” Mozart:  “I know, I know…Maybe you should give me some lessons on that.” – AMADEUS – Peter Shaffer (Screenplay) – 1984

Playing drums hurts my back. – Don Henley

Music does a lot of things for a lot of people.  It’s transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment things happened in your life.  It’s uplifting, it’s encouraging, it’s strengthening. – Aretha Franklin

Music is enough for a lifetime – but a lifetime is not enough for music. – Sergei Rachmaninoff

Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than water from the black fountain. – B. B. King

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the establishment of the soul. – Johann Sebastian Bach

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood.  My songs were the same conveyor belt mass production; just like most of my movies were. – Elvis Presley

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“Tonya!  Can you play the balalaika?” – General Yevgraf: (Alec Guiness) David (Gerhard Jersch) Tonya’s (Rita Tushingham) boyfriend, David: “Can she play?  She’s an artist!”                            Yevgraf:  “Who taught you?”                                                       David: “Nobody taught her!”                                                      Yevgraf: “Ah…then it’s a gift.” (last lines) – DOCTOR ZHIVAGO – Robert Bolt (Screenplay) – 1965

I think very abstractly when I’m writing.  Then, as the project moves on, it becomes more like sculpturing. – James Horner (on composing film music)

Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini was the piece that sent me into raptures.  It spoke to me.  To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood. – Joni Mitchell

Everything I’ve ever done was out of fear of being mediocre. – Chet Atkins

My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company. – Sarah Vaughn

“For you know that I’d even try to turn the tide.” – I WALK THE LINE – Johnny Cash

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific time in which they were created. – Billy Joel

The blues had a baby and they call it rock and roll. – Muddy Waters

I gave up my childhood for a career. – Brenda Lee

One must always practice slowly.  If you learn something slowly, you forget it slowly. – Itshak Perlman

Art finds a way to be constructive.  It becomes hot in a cold place; it becomes light in dark places. – Barbra Streisand

Talent works, genius creates. – Robert Schumann

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty.  Magical music never leaves the memory. – Thomas Beecham

When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it isn’t art. – Tony Bennett

I was part of the first wave of singer/songwriters, but I was also in that first wave of singer/songwriters who experienced the music industry when technology began to take over. – Melissa Manchester.

I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes. – Marvin Hamlisch

If you play a tune and a person don’t tap their feet, don’t play the tune. – Count Basie

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Music opens windows to the world.  Those windows may let light shine that we never experienced before.  This can be a good and positive thing if our mindset allows us to consider others as equal or superior to ourself.  We can only be elevated to a higher plane of enlightenment by opening our mind to other cultures. – Gary Pulliam

Art is a way of possessing destiny. – Marvin Gaye

Whatever your personal political feelings are; if you become involved with them publicly, you’re bound to come out a loser. – Dusty Springfield

Every artist is at first an amateur. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He says the sun came out last night.  He says it sang to him.” – Project leader (J. Patrick McNamara) speaking of a poor Mexican peasant about his unexplained nighttime encounter.  – CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND – Steven Spielberg (4 collaborators) – 1977

You’re a victim of my drive-by thoughts. – Dr. Dre

My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it.  I’d like to think I did that. – Etta James

A song is anything that can walk by itself. – Bob Dylan    

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. – Stevie Wonder

I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role much more aggressively than in the recording studio. – Kiri Te Kanawa

Love is stronger than justice. – Sting

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. – Aldous Huxley

Where the heart does not enter, there can be no music. – Pyotr Tchaikovsky        

It’s just that when you heard hip-hop, no matter where you were, it was a culture that kind of made you want to be a part of it.  Whether you thought that you were an artist, whether you thought that you could be a DJ, or whether you thought that you could be a break-dancer, or whether you thought that you could rap, it was the kind of culture that had a lot of open doors. – Ice T

Just because you record, doesn’t mean you should. – Christopher Knab (Forefront Media)

I’ve been the full spectrum—from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop—the public has accepted what I’ve done through it all.  I think it means I’ve been doing something right at the right time. – Lou Rawls

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Music transcends all barriers, racial, cultural, economic, religious and social.  It can produce great pleasure, especially if one understands the message conveyed by the composer.  It can also produce the opposite, great pain.  Music can soothe, overwhelm, frustrate, refresh, anger, relax, frustrate, stimulate, depress, inspire, divide, attract, traumatize, mesmerize, motivate and compel.  TV commercials are living proof. – Gary Pulliam

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.  Music is the electric soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents. – Ludwig Van Beethoven

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories, and the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it. – Stevie Wonder

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. – Max Lucado

Just as Jesus created wine from water, we humans are capable of transmuting emotion into music. – Carlos Santana

Every great work of art has two faces—one in its own time and one in the future, toward eternity. – Daniel Borenboim – PARALLELS & PARADOXES - Explanations of music in Society  

War is not the answer, only love can conquer hate. – Marvin Gaye

It’s the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. –  Albert Einstein

Music has to breathe and sweat.  You have to play it live. – James Brown

The history of people is found in its songs. – George Jellinek

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results. – Willie Nelson

Music is spiritual.  The music business is not. – Van Morrison

Loyalty is such a rare quality, but my fans are the most loyal fans in the world. – Michael Jackson

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful poetic things from the heart. – Pablo Casals

I love the way music inside your car makes you feel invisible; if you play the stereo at maximum volume, it’s almost like the other people can’t see you in your vehicle.  It tints your windows somehow. – Chuck Klosterman – KILLING YOURSELF TO LIVE : 85% a True Story

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted. – John Lennon

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Art is domination.  It’s making people think that for a precise moment in time, there is only one way, one voice.  Yours. – Maria Callas

You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure to sing like a hillbilly. – Hank Williams

Love sees sharply, hatred sees ever more sharp, but jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at the same time. – Sarah Brightman

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano. – Frederic Chopin

I’m working my way toward divinity. – Bette Midler

99% of the world’s lovers are not with their first choice.  That’s what makes the jukebox play. – Willie Nelson

I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs.  I love her songs COME ON, COME ON and I AM A TOWN, they’re two of my favorite songs. – Betty Buckley

Thank you for leaving us alone but for giving us enough attention to boost our egos. – Mick Jagger

I sang in the coffeehouses of the country in the early ‘60’s with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller.  I din’t even think of myself as a singer. – Judy Collins

Most gentlemen don’t like love, they just like to kick it around. – Cole Porter

Art is the signature of civilizations. – Beverly Sills

I often think of random melodies.  And I pretty much have in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I am writing on the piano. – Andrew Lloyd Webber

In nearly all ballads, the words set the music and meanings, while the music intensifies or enhances them. – Kate Smith

I think I’m a vocal genius, not a musical genius.  I like background vocals.  I consider myself a voice, not a singer.  A voice is a sound and a singer is what you do with that sound. – Brian Wilson

You know, the thing that struck me about the Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred.  There was incredible vitriol in it. – T Bone Burnett

Teenagers did not have, before rock in roll or rhythm and blues – they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 6 years old until they were well into their 20’s and considered adults. – Sam Phillips (Record producer, Sun Studio in Memphis)

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Inspiration is enough to give experience to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words. – Franz Liszt

Be kind to people on your way up – you’ll meet them again on your way down. – Jimmy Durante

I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity. – Bette Midler

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. – Owen Meredith

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. – Stevie Wonder

Talent is only the starting point. – Irving Berlin

You may know what you need, but to get what you want, better see to it that you keep what you’ve got. – Stephen Sondheim

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. – Beverly Sills

I think most of our songs come out of poverty and hard times. – Willie Nelson

Every three days on the average, I am alone on stage, facing the public. – Placido Domingo

Talent works, genius creates. – Robert Schumann

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships. – Gore Vidal

The moment a man starts to talk about technique, that’sproof that he’s fresh out of ideas. – Raymond Chandler

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. – Ludwig van Beethoven