Musician's Wisdom

[bassace]

[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1358449546' post='1939487']
'You're only as good as your drummer' - Me
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'You're only as good as the musicians you are playing with' - Me

'I told you to bring it, not play it' - put-down to a sitter-in.

[BILL POSTERS]

When in doubt, trust your paranoia. Ray Davies.

[seashell]

[quote name='BILL POSTERS' timestamp='1358725515' post='1944250']
I think it was Bill Withers who said that " if piracy continues, a lot of musicians would have to find a different way of making a living, and you wouldnt want Ozzy Ozborne to call rouns and fix your plumbing, now would you"?
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Arthur Brown (as in Crazy World of..) and Jimmy Carl Black (as in Frank Zappa drummer) once had a painting an decorating business together.
Imagine opening the door to that !

[Shockwave]

“Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.” - Frank Zappa

[dincz]

"A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it" - Sir Thomas Beecham

[Bilbo]

Music is just an interesting way to join up silences -Mick Goodrick

[casapete]

"Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including,and particularly,
the co-ordination between man and time" - Igor Stravinsky.

"All music's folk music - leastways, I never heard of no horse making it" - Louis Armstrong (& Big Bill Broonzy)

[Norris]

If in doubt, pull it out - Me
...tuning a trumpet by deliberately going flat and bringing it back up into tune, but could work in so many other contexts

[danthevan]

keep it simple

[BILL POSTERS]

If god meant for us to play piano, he'd have given us 88 fingers.

Spotted on another forum a while ago.