Musical quote of the day

[moxham123]

Musical quote of the day. Post some of your favorites.

"I'm not playing all the wrong notes.....I'm playing all the right notes....but not necessarily in the right order."

[Banned]

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. ~Louis Armstrong

[kayla]

"I'm not playing all the wrong notes.....I'm playing all the right notes....but not necessarily in the right order."

haha i really like that one. story of my life

[whitedevilone]

"Your playing was great Stevie.Your tone however, sounded like an electric ham sandwich."

Frank Zappa on Vai's guitar tone on one of his first gigs in FZ's band.Classic Frank.

[StumbleFingers]

"Your playing was great Stevie.Your tone however, sounded like an electric ham sandwich".

Frank Zappa on Vai's guitar tone on one of his first gigs in FZ's band.Classic Frank.

Ha! Yeah, Steve's occasionally busted out a few shitty tones over the years. That's about the only aspect of his playing I can emulate!

[ToonaRockGuy]

"If you're going to add vibrato to a note, I think it's really important to make a face. Playing vibrato without making a face is like eating food without tasting it." - Paul Gilbert

[CMOR]

"You can't hold no groove if you ain't got no pocket." - Pete Wooten






And, yes, it pained me to type that quote.

[kayla]

"It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play." - Dizzy Gillespie

"Notes are expensive... spend them wisely" - BB King

- kayla.

[DickShackBass]

''Whether it's jazz or punk or anything else, you have to fight against the purists who

want to narrow the definition. That's what kills music because it stifles it to death.''~Joe Strummer

Andrea

[f.sciarrillo]

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. - Elvis Presley

[robinhood]

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians. -Frank Zappa

"I don't take compliments very easily, I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent." -James Taylor

"Between sets I'd sneak over to the black places to hear blues musicians. It got to the point where I was making my living at white clubs and having my fun at the other places." -SRV

And one for my political friends:
"Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot of work done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest." -Kinky Friedman

"Artist-musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version of the popular perception of contemporary life." -Billy Joel
(i like this one the best)

[moxham123]

"The first thing to do is don't stop. The second thing to do is keep going" -Frank Zappa

[moxham123]

"If you play it wrong, do it again and we'll call it Jazz"

[moxham123]

Just because you're not a drummer, doesn't mean you don't have to keep time - Thelonius Monk

[Capt. Grammar]

"You can't hold no groove if you ain't got no pocket." - Pete Wooten






And, yes, it pained me to type that quote.

You have my sympathies.

[riksylvania]

"You can't hold no groove if you ain't got no pocket." - Pete Wooten






And, yes, it pained me to type that quote.

You have my sympathies.

Cap'n Grammar, you are quite the Cunning Linguist.

[moxham123]

A novice practices until he gets it right. A professional practices until he never gets it wrong.

[f.sciarrillo]

"Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music." - Jimi Hendrix

[autumnsky]

"I just hope that after I die, they still play my music"....Jimi Hendrix

[moxham123]

"If you want to play fast, practice slow. If you want to play real fast, practice real slow."

[moxham123]

"You really shouldn't be trying to sound like Jimi Hendrix by now anyway." - Adrian Belew

[moxham123]

"Practice makes perfect, and no one is perfect, so why practice?" - Billy Joe Armstrong (Green Day)

[moxham123]

"The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course..." - Freddie Mercury

[moxham123]

One day, a son asked hi bassist father, "Dad, guitar players get to play chords. Do bass players ever use chords?" The father said, " Yes, but not all the time like guitarists, because when you hit a chord on a bass, a shock wave rolls out from the stage, causing drinks to be rattled off of tables, and people's hair gets blown back like a breeze, possibly causing some damage." In awe, the son asked, but doesn't that happen to guitarists too?" His father replied, "No son, they don't trust just anybody with that level of power."

[moxham123]

"Writing songs is like trying to squeeze a watermelon out of your ass. And you would think after having done it hundreds of times, the aperture would get wider and they'd just sort of start falling out of you. But it doesn't. In fact as you go on it rather... puckers." - Nick Cave