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05-28-2017, 11:58 AM
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Favorite sayings
I love quotes from musicians/composers past and present. Just found another one, this time from NYC jazz guitarist Jimmy Bruno:
"Everything's gradual..." Faves?
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Harmony Sovereign H-1203 "You're making the wrong mistakes." ...T. Monk Theory is the post mortem of Music. 
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05-28-2017, 12:11 PM
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Well, there are far too many great ones to mention; many of them can be found as quotes in signatures right on this Forum! (Yours would be one of those... Monk had a LOT of them!)
I think it was Miles Davis who compared the ending of a tune to landing an airplane: "Any ending you can walk away from..."
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"Home is where I hang my hat, but home is so much more than that. Home is where the ones and the things I hold dear are near... And I always find my way back home." "Home" (working title) J.S, Sherman
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05-29-2017, 04:29 AM
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Miles Davis had lots:
"Do not fear mistakes. There are none." "I'll play it first and tell you what it is later." "Play like you don't know how to play the guitar" (to John McLaughlin) "Don't play what's there. Play what's not there." "If you're not nervous then you're not paying attention" ... Dizzy Gillespie: "It's taken me a lifetime to learn what not to play." "Some people think of a note and put a rhythm to it. I think of a rhythm and put a note to it." ... Thelonius Monk: (after an unsatisfactory performance) "I played the wrong mistakes" "Make the drummer sound good" "Just because you're not a drummer doesn't mean you don't have to keep time" "Stop playing all those weird notes, play the melody!" "A genius is the one most like himself." "They tried to get me to hate white people, but someone would always come along and spoil it." ... Picasso: "When you come down to it, all you have is yourself. Your self is a sun with 1,000 rays in your belly. The rest is nothing."
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"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." - Leonard Cohen. Last edited by Kerbie; 05-29-2017 at 10:21 AM. Reason: Removed masked profanity
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05-29-2017, 04:32 AM
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"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." - Leonard Cohen.
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05-29-2017, 05:47 AM
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"Hey, it's just music . . . it's not a cure for cancer."
Attrituted to many, but helps to establish perspective.
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05-29-2017, 05:47 AM
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"They didn't know, they had to be told" fav line from my old buddy Ray Manzareck.
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05-29-2017, 07:30 AM
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[QUOTE=A-Mac;5356372]"Hey, it's just music . . . it's not a cure for cancer."
Plenty more Spinal Tap classics, of course: "D minor is the saddest of all keys. People weep instantly when they hear it." "These go to 11." "None more black."
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"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." - Leonard Cohen. Last edited by Kerbie; 05-29-2017 at 10:19 AM. Reason: Removed quoted masked profanity
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05-29-2017, 10:40 AM
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"Music is the space between the notes" - Claude Debussy
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05-29-2017, 10:59 AM
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Non famous quote that I think sums up what we all do on the guitar. I said to Bob Minner in a text, after sending him a video of some of my current moves I was working on with the guitar,, that I was still practicing, and he said,,
"We're all Practicing".
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Dump The Bucket On It!
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05-29-2017, 11:12 AM
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Harmony Sovereign H-1203 "You're making the wrong mistakes." ...T. Monk Theory is the post mortem of Music.
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05-29-2017, 06:51 PM
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Two from David Sudnow:
1. Always learn anything new in the context of the song. To him, talking about music theory apart from what is needed to play a tune would be a waste of time. So he was saying that if you can't use it to play tunes (i.e. it has no practical application), you don't need it. 2. Always play on time, perfectly. He felt that if you didn't make mistakes, you wouldn't be teaching your body the mistakes. To avoid this, practice as slowly and carefully as necessary to avoid making (and teaching your body) mistakes. Mistakes can be playing a wrong note or missing the time because your body knows WHERE something is by WHEN it is - a very important and too little understood concept. Tony
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