Michael Bloomfields' musical understanding was broad and deep, and he knew how to turn that understanding into communication .. his influence was phe….
All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble music, not solois….
St. John of the Cross points out that the divine music can best be heard in solitude and silence. The sonorous music is not a physical sound that vib….
There is something in the spirit of song...that fires the soul in a way that it can't otherwise be touched or fired..
In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness that doesn't have that much to do with everyday thinking. It's as if y….
Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words..
Man, there's no boundary line to art!.
I can play all I know in eight bars..
I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it..
They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art..
I do more writing by myself than with anybody else. My best thing is sitting...around somewhere with a guitar, and having an idea. You never know whe….
Everyone has their own sound, and if you're heard enough, folks will come to recognize it. Style however, is a different thing. Try to express your o….
Lenny Breau is one of the true geniuses of the guitar. I suppose he is a musician's musician. His knowledge of the instrument and the music is so vas….
When I was a little boy, I told my dad, 'When I grow up, I want to be a musician.' My dad said: 'You can't do both, Son'..
Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my g….
I no longer wanted to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to people..
Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things - a….
Work is a four-letter word..
music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven..
The maplewood flat-finished Martin had represented the most outrageous luxury in her life when she bought it in 1971 for four hundred dollars. But Lo….
Thank God for books and music and things I can think about." --Charlie Gordan.