"Don’t feel bad that you don’t have it, just download it. It looks kind of like an album because we had an artist make us this cool album cover because we were shopping it to record labels."

'Once upon a time, there were 2 trees that grew next to each other. One was straight and the other was crooked. Every day the straight tree would look at his neighbor and say "you're crooked! You have always been crooked and you will continue to be crooked!"

Then one day the lumberjacks came into the forest, and the manager in charge said, "Cut down all the straight trees!" That crooked tree is still there to this day, growing strong and growing strange.'


--Tom Waits

"The one and only thing that got me through all those times and many others I can't even list…is music and love. It sounds cheesy, but when you're that down, it's amazing how the small things in life you take for granted become so much more important"--Alex Band

These are a few quotes from my students that have come and gone, may they rest in enternal peace and music.

In heaven there will be angels to play the music of the Lord. On Earth, we have musicians. And it sings to me like the voice of the Lord himself. Any who can make music, is holy. Adam O'Neil, Graduated: 2000, Passed Away: 9/11/2001

Music is NOT comprised of only notes and rythemes and dynamic markings and time signatures and key marks. Music is comprised of all that, and Hu, the human elemant. When somebody puts their heart and soul into and through their instrument and into the air, music touches the heart of all who hear it. What're you hearing? Sarah Tucker, Graduated: 2000, Passed away: 2008

Ha! You think you're a trumpet player?! Just because you play the notes doesn't mean you play the music. Brandon Mills, Graduated: 2007, Passed away: 2007

My cello is like another limb to me. The music flows through me into the bow, into my cello and out into the world. Music is like my crack. I just can't get enough of it. Kevin Kiley, Graduated: 1998, Passed Away: 9/11/2001

In a novel, you have to have a climax to make it interesting. Sometimes in music, the lack of a climax is the climax and makes it all the more interesting. Shannon Grant, Graduated: 1997, Passed away: 2009

But this one is my absolute favorite:

When you play, your music will always give away your heart, when words cannot. Ron Rinders, Graduated: 1999, Passed away: 2001

This is a conversation between a friend and I as we were waiting in a music store:
(Friend walks over to cassette tapes) "So why do they even have these things?"
Me: "What?"
Friend: "Why do they have these things in the music store? I don't even know what these things are!"
Me: "Umm...they're cassette tapes, bro."
Friend: "What?! They still have these?!"

I LOL-ED.

"Music is a safe kind of high"- Jimi Hendrix

“Without music, life would be an error.”- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Music Is a Language"
"There is more to music than just playing the right notes"
"So there are 7 right notes and only 5 'so called' wrong notes, which means even if I guess I'm gonna be right more than half the time"

I have to give Victor Wooten credit his latest DVD was rather insightful.

In fact screw it, here's the man himself



If your a musician of any sort it's seriously worth a buy and it applies to all musicians not just bassists.

"Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating."

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. ~ Elvis Presley

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. ~ Charlie Parker

"When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone, in the air, you can never capture it again." - Eric Dolphy

Favorite musician quotes of all time
 

Here a few of my favorites:

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." - Jimi Hendrix

"Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside.” - Elvis Presley

"I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head." - Kurt Cobain