Art resides in the quality of doing. Process is not magic.
Charles Eames, 100 Quotes By Charles Eames
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“All people are musicians” Wit countered. “The question is whether or not they share their songs.”
Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance
Supposedly, Jim Hall placed a sign inside his guitar case so he would see it every time he took out his guitar. The sign said, “Make musical sense.” This story made an important impression on me. If Jim Hall (whose playing always makes sense to me) had to remind himself to make sense, certainly the rest of us would benefit from this advice.
Mick Goodrick in Guitar Player magazine, January 1992
Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue.
The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.
Julian Bream on what you communicate through music.
“As I’ve got older, I found that music for me is not just a question of music and then living; it’s become more and more a question of living and then music, with the music expressing the living. What you do, what you feel, and the actions you take, is the essence of what you communicate through music.” Julian Bream… Read more →