I joined Count Basie’s band to make a little money and see the world. For almost two years I didn’t see anything but the inside of a Blue Goose bus, and I never got to send home a quarter.
Music Quotes
Modern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word.
Daddy Frank played the guitar and the French harp Sister played the ringin’ tambourine mama couldn’t hear our pretty music; She read our lips and helped the family sing. That little band was all a part of livin’ And our only means of livin’ at the time. It wasn’t like no normal family combo ’cause […]
If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you’re out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung. If you think you need stuff to play music or sing, you’re crazy. It can fix you so you […]
Kind words are the music of the world.
A song makes it possible to feel a thought.
Without Elvis, none of us could have made it. (Charles Hardin Holley)
Yet there is one thing the world with all its rottenness cannot take from us, and that is the deep and abiding joy and consolation perpetuate in great music. Here the spirit may find home and relief when all else fails.
I see man as someone into whose hands God has placed a hammer and a violin. Such a person lives a very happy life, he sees that with the hammer he can satisfy his material needs, and he feels that the violin opens up a world beyond language, beyond logic, a world that he cannot […]
Go to the great concerts where you know that the music is good, and that you ought to like it whether you do or not. Take a music-bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body. I […]
