metalmaniac Posted December 2, 2007 Share Posted December 2, 2007 Wondered if anyone knew any good quotes about bass or music. Like Play the music, not the instrument. ~Author Unknown Ash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul, the Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 Many **** quotes. I like to sleep. There is no set time of day for sleep. You sleep when you’re tired, that’s all there is to it. - Thelonious Monk I’ll play it first and tell you what it is later. - Miles Davis It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play. - Dizzie Gillespie Wrong is right. - Thelonious Monk The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen - Duke Ellington By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with - Duke Ellington Don’t threaten me with love, baby; let’s just go walking in the rain - Billie Holiday At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no right, under pretext of freeing yourself, to be illogical and incoherent by getting rid of structure and simply piling a lot of notes one on top of the other. There’s no beat anymore. You can’t keep time with your foot. I believe that what is happening to jazz with people like Ornette Coleman, for instance, is bad. There’s a new idea that consists in destroying everything and find what’s shocking and unexpected; whereas jazz must first of all tell a story that anyone can understand - Thelonious Monk Finally Beiderbecke took out a silver cornet. He put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out like a girl saying ‘yes’ - Eddie Condon What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualised on - Gerry Mulligan A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with his parents or spouse or neighbors. He’s above all a human being . . . the true artform is being a human being - Herbie Hancock Forgive me if I don’t have the words. Maybe I can sing it and you’ll understand - Ella Fitzgerald My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often — in fact, mostly — at the expense of everything else in my life. - Stan Getz At a time when individualism is becoming an endangered species, jazz represents a celebration of the individual - Ellis Marsalis Life is not about finding our limitations, it’s about finding our infinity - Herbie Hancock Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before. Being so inescapably a part of it, I’ll never know what the listener gets, what the listener feels, and thats too bad. - John Coltrane Sustained intensity equals ecstacy - Wynton Marsalis Overall, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things that he knows of and senses in the universe. . . That’s what I would like to do. I think that’s one of the greatest things you can do in life and we all try to do it in some way. The musician’s is through his music - John Coltrane We’re not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour. - Oscar Peterson All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws. - John Coltrane I don’t need words — it’s all in the phrasing - Louis Armstrong Don’t bullshit… just play - Wynton Marsalis Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions - Johnny Griffin If someone has been escaping reality, I don’t expect him to dig my music. - Charles Mingus I’d like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition - Dizzie Gillespie Master your instrument, master the music, and then forget all that bullshit and just play - Charlie Parker I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it - Keith Jarrett [url="http://www.jameslomax.com/words/877/jazz-quotes"]http://www.jameslomax.com/words/877/jazz-quotes[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodster Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 "It 'aint bragging if you can back it up...." Jaco Pastorius Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obbm Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 (edited) Cream was a jazz band but nobody told Eric - Jack Bruce When turning down the Beatles, Dick Rowe, Decca's A&R man, told Brian Epstein "Guitar groups are on the way out... You should really stick to selling records in Liverpool" Edited December 3, 2007 by obbm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faithless Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 Somethin' Wooten said - about traveling, loosing your "way", going through "other ways" and looking for the main, and, OF COURSE, finding it! ( It was about developing your music and technique things). Problem is, he forgot to mention, that sometimes you won't "find" the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_b Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 "There's only two kinds of music, the blues and zippedy doo dah" - Townes Van Zandt "We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline" - Donald "Duck" Dunn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 'Study music, not musicians' - Lincoln Goines Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikey D Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 I'm not here to raise hippie consciousness, I'm here to wet some panties. ~ Jaco Pastorius Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 'Writing about music is like dancing about architecture' - Elvis Costello paraphrasing someone else Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misrule Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read -- Frank Zappa. Cheers Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikey D Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 [quote name='bilbo230763' post='98069' date='Dec 3 2007, 12:48 PM']'Writing about music is like dancing about architecture' - Elvis Costello paraphrasing someone else[/quote] Thelonious Monk!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wateroftyne Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 [size=3][i]'If the sh*t fits... wear it.'[/i][/size] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Count Bassy Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 The old chestnut: "It's no good practising until you can play it right; Practise until you can't play it wrong." I heard it attributed to Yehudi Menuin (Yehudi who?), but I'm sure that it, or a version of it, has also been said by and/or attributed to many others as well. Clive Also: "Practise, practise, practise, and when you'e sick of practising practise some more." I heard it attributed to Dave Mallision ( a melodeon player) but again I'm sure it's been used by many people. Clive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bremen Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 [quote name='metalmaniac' post='97622' date='Dec 2 2007, 01:56 PM']Wondered if anyone knew any good quotes about bass or music. Like Play the music, not the instrument. ~Author Unknown Ash[/quote] I'm only interested in heavy metal when it's me playing it, I suppose it's a bit like smelling your own farts. J. Entwistle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bass_In_Yer_Face Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 Don't know who said it about bass "Never play anything above the 5th fret" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRev Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 [quote name='Bass_In_Yer_Face' post='98127' date='Dec 3 2007, 02:05 PM']Don't know who said it about bass "Never play anything above the 5th fret"[/quote] I think that was Aston 'family man' Barrett of the Wailers. 'It doesn't matter if it sounds particularly good on its own, as long as it sounds like a bass' - Poni Pallidino Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonestar Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 (edited) [quote name='Mikey D' post='98078' date='Dec 3 2007, 01:02 PM']Thelonious Monk!?[/quote] "Talking about music is fishing about architecture". the original quote is by Frank Zappa he also wrote: "Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read". What a hero! Edited December 3, 2007 by lonestar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bnt Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 I have a special place for [b]Wagner[/b] in my musical quotes file: I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time. -- Oscar Wilde Even the bad things are better than they used to be. Bad music, for instance, has gotten much briefer. Wagner's [i]Ring Cycle[/i] takes four days to perform while [i]Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm[/i] by the Crash Test Dummies lasts little more than three minutes. -- P.J O'Rourke (All the Trouble in the World) One cannot judge [i]Lohengrin[/i] from a first hearing, and I certainly do not intend to hear it a second time. ... Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour. -- Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. -- Igor Stravinsky Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swearwords. (If you don't count Wagner, which in my opinion is one long one and should be avoided at all costs.) -- Billy Connolly Richard Wagner was a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds. -- Mark Twain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Cooke Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 Elwood: What kind of music do you usually have here? Claire: Oh, we got both kinds. We got country *and* western. Mrs. Tarantino: Are you the police? Elwood: No, ma'am. We're musicians. Jake: Uh, Bob, about the money for tonight. Bob: Oh, yeah, $200, and you boys drank $300 worth of beer. Willie 'Too Big' Hall: I say we give the blues brothers one more chance Donald 'Duck' Dunn: Why not? If the s**t fits, wear it. Jake: The Cadillac we used to have. The Bluesmobile! Elwood: I traded it. Jake: You traded the Bluesmobile for this? Elwood: No, for a microphone. Jake: A microphone? [pause] Jake: Okay I can see that. What the hell is this? Elwood Blues: Duck, give me a mountain tempo in A minor. Elwood Blues: Is there anything in particular you would like to hear this evening your highness? Queen Mousette: Yes. Do something Caribbean. Elwood Blues: Uh, ma'am, we're the Blues Brothers. We do blues, rhythm & blues, jazz, funk, soul. We can handle rock, pop, country, heavy metal, fusion, hip hop, rap, Motown, operetta, show tunes. In fact, we've even been called upon, on occasion, to do a polka! However Caribbean is a type of music, I regret to say, which has not been, is simply not, nor will ever be a part of this band's repertoire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deep Thought Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 'Dad, do you know the piano's on my foot?' 'You hum it son, I'll play it.' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 [quote name='bilbo230763' post='98069' date='Dec 3 2007, 02:48 PM']'Writing about music is like dancing about architecture' - Elvis Costello paraphrasing someone else[/quote] That would be Zappa. "Talking about music is like fishing for architecture" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bremen Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 [quote name='Deep Thought' post='98356' date='Dec 3 2007, 07:33 PM']'Dad, do you know the piano's on my foot?' 'You hum it son, I'll play it.'[/quote] Rik: Do you know Summer Holiday by Cliff Richard? Suggs: You hum it, I'll smash your face in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E_MaN Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 [quote name='Paul Cooke' post='98344' date='Dec 3 2007, 07:18 PM']Elwood: What kind of music do you usually have here? Claire: Oh, we got both kinds. We got country *and* western. Mrs. Tarantino: Are you the police? Elwood: No, ma'am. We're musicians. Jake: Uh, Bob, about the money for tonight. Bob: Oh, yeah, $200, and you boys drank $300 worth of beer. Willie 'Too Big' Hall: I say we give the blues brothers one more chance Donald 'Duck' Dunn: Why not? If the s**t fits, wear it. Jake: The Cadillac we used to have. The Bluesmobile! Elwood: I traded it. Jake: You traded the Bluesmobile for this? Elwood: No, for a microphone. Jake: A microphone? [pause] Jake: Okay I can see that. What the hell is this? Elwood Blues: Duck, give me a mountain tempo in A minor. [size=4]Elwood Blues: Is there anything in particular you would like to hear this evening your highness? Queen Mousette: Yes. Do something Caribbean. Elwood Blues: Uh, ma'am, we're the Blues Brothers. We do blues, rhythm & blues, jazz, funk, soul. We can handle rock, pop, country, heavy metal, fusion, hip hop, rap, Motown, operetta, show tunes. In fact, we've even been called upon, on occasion, to do a polka! However Caribbean is a type of music, I regret to say, which has not been, is simply not, nor will ever be a part of this band's repertoire.[/size][/quote] I can't remember that part of the film!!!! Is it on a sequel or something?!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
queenofthedepths Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 [quote name='E_MaN' post='98507' date='Dec 3 2007, 11:16 PM']I can't remember that part of the film!!!! Is it on a sequel or something?!?[/quote] Yesss - it's the Blues Brothers 2000 - so's the one just above it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E_MaN Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 [quote name='queenofthedepths' post='98523' date='Dec 3 2007, 11:32 PM']Yesss - it's the Blues Brothers 2000 - so's the one just above it[/quote] is it good? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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