16251 Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 I read this quote today on FB from the Bill Evans Legacy Organization. I think this quote is brilliant and there must many more from the great musicians that can help think differently and expansive. "There are no wrong notes, only wrong resolutions, I think of all harmony as an expansion and a return to the tonic." - Bill Evans Quote AvantGrand N2 | ES520 | Gallien-Krueger MK & MP | https://soundcloud.com/pete36251 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivan May Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 “You see its all clear…you were meant to be here” —Greg Lake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliffk Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 I’ve got this on my WhatsApp profile: ’To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable’ (Beethoven). Quote YouTube music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Docbop Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn. - Herbie Hancock "It bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not, it's feeling." -Bill Evans "The note is only 20%. The attitude of the mf playing it is 80%." -Miles Davis "If you mean a note enough, it will sound different. You got to pick the notes you really mean." -Thelonious Monk "Jazz is about closeness to the material, a personal dance with the material." -Keith Jarrett If you’re going to practice, you might as well practice correctly. In most cases correctly means slower. Almost everybody practices too fast. Playing slowly helps you to develop your sound, it helps your rhythm, it gives you time to train your muscles to execute difficult physical maneuvers, and it allows you to become more intimate with your instrument and with the music you are attempting to play. — Wynton Marsalis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finale Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 "The first piano was built long after they didn't have any at all." - Victor Borge "Do it." - Vangelis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamPro Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 Frank Zappa: "The mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open." Also FZ: "Modern Americans behave as if intelligence is some kind of hideous deformity." How prescient. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyberGene Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 “It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.” Bach Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timwat Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 “The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.” "If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?" "Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them." Quote .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zephonic Posted January 5, 2023 Share Posted January 5, 2023 “if it doesn’t swing, why bother?” - Herbie Hancock Quote local: Korg Nautilus 73 | Yamaha MODX8 away: GigPerformer home: Kawai RX-2 | Korg D1 | Roland Fantom X7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfergirl Posted January 5, 2023 Share Posted January 5, 2023 I don't ever worry about whether I'm being true to my county roots. My country roots were adopted. I never worry about what I can do and what I should do. I just do what I want to do. Emmylou Harris Quote Jennifer S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old No7 Posted January 5, 2023 Share Posted January 5, 2023 OK, I'll play... The best thing about this band is I'm the leader! Keith Emerson I don't care who I play to, as long as they enjoy listening to what I play. Keith Emerson Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul. And I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion. Greg Lake I think good music comes from the heart. That's my belief. Greg Lake There are others, but I found none for Carl Palmer. Old No7 1 Quote Yamaha MODX6 * Hammond SK Pro 73 * Roland Fantom-08 * Crumar Mojo Pedals * Mackie Thump 12As * Tascam DP-24SD * JBL 305 MkIIs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D. Gauss Posted January 5, 2023 Share Posted January 5, 2023 "My guitar. All you need to play it is five strings, three chords, two fingers and one asshole." -Keith Richards 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David R Posted January 5, 2023 Share Posted January 5, 2023 “If you are thinking, you are not playing.” Airto Moreira 2 2 Quote My Site Nord Electro 5D, Novation Launchkey 61, Logic Pro X, Mainstage 3, lots of plugins, fingers, pencil, paper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
o0Ampy0o Posted January 5, 2023 Share Posted January 5, 2023 “If we had known we were going to be The Beatles we would have tried harder.” “As far as I’m concerned there won’t be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.” ”To the best of my knowledge none of The Beatles can read music.” ”The biggest break in my career was getting in The Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.” ”I wasn’t Lennon, or I wasn’t McCartney. I was me. And the only reason I started to write songs was because I thought, “Well, if they can write them I can write them.” ~George Harrison 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marino Posted January 5, 2023 Share Posted January 5, 2023 "History is like a rear-view mirror; you have to check it often, to avoid serious accidents". Vittorio Nocenzi, virtuoso keyboard player and composer "Watching a pianist play is a distraction from music; you're watching the struggle of the player, but you should only listen to the results". Sviatoslav Richter "Imitation is limitation". Joe Zawinul "Playing is a simple matter: All you have to do is to play the right notes at the right time, and the instrument plays itself". J.S.Bach! EDIT: Oops, already included by someone else. But just too good to delete. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteinwayB Posted January 5, 2023 Share Posted January 5, 2023 Every note I play is the most beautiful sound I have ever heard. --Kenny Werner ...I wish it were true --me 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KuruPrionz Posted January 5, 2023 Share Posted January 5, 2023 The Singer IS the solo, shut up! ~ me Quote It took a chunk of my life to get here and I am still not sure where "here" is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfergirl Posted January 5, 2023 Share Posted January 5, 2023 Fanny: They were extraordinary: they wrote everything, they played like motherf@#&ers, ther were just colossal and wonderful, and nobody's ever mentioned them. They're as important as anybody else who's ever been; it just wasn't their time. David bowie Quote Jennifer S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElmerJFudd Posted January 6, 2023 Share Posted January 6, 2023 On 1/5/2023 at 1:10 PM, surfergirl said: Fanny: They were extraordinary: they wrote everything, they played like motherf@#&ers, ther were just colossal and wonderful, and nobody's ever mentioned them. They're as important as anybody else who's ever been; it just wasn't their time. David bowie That quote reminds me of this classic - “They were the worst musicians in the world… They were no-playing motherfuckers.” - Quincy Jones on The Beatles. Quote Yamaha CP88, Casio PX-560 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSS Posted January 7, 2023 Share Posted January 7, 2023 At the risk of angering jazzers whom I respect as consummate musicians, Zappa humorously observed: "Jazz isn't dead. It just smells really bad." Qualifier: Although I really dig Zappa, he is / was not my favorite musician, but he was probably the cleverest and funniest. Quote Gigs: Nord 5D 73, Kurz PC4-7 & SP4-7, Hammond SK1, Yamaha MX88 & P121, Numa Compact 2x, Casio CGP700, QSC K12, Yamaha DBR10, JBL515xt(2). Alto TS310(2) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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