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Music Quotes — 2010-2016"A review of studies suggests music reduces acute and chronic pain related to cancer and other pain-promoting health conditions. The review of nearly 100 studies conducted over a 20-year period and involving more than 9,000 participants found that, depending on the study, music therapy reduced pain intensity, emotional distress, and even use of pain medication. In fact, according to several of the studies reviewed, exposure to music reduced self-reported pain intensity by a full point on a 0-10 pain scale compared to patients who received no music intervention." — "Pain Relief Is Music to Your Ears" from ToYourHealth.com
"I've always likened our show to a NASCAR race. I think people are coming out to see a crash." — Actor Kiefer Sutherland, on his sideline as a rock musician, from AARP Bulletin, September 2016
"For the concert of life, no one receives a program." — unknown
"Music, with its infinite beauty, has the ability to bind our hearts together as one." — Facebook meme
"I'm tremendously blessed to be able to go places and listen to people tell me their stories. Sometimes you think, Well, I'm going down to sing in Cleveland because I have to make a living. Then you get there and realize there's somebody there whose son committed suicide, and they come backstage to talk to you about that. And you realize, That's why I was there." — Judy Collins, "Sanity and Grace," AARP The Magazine, December 2015 January 2016
"To love someone is to learn the song in their heart and sing it to them when they have forgotten it." — Facebook meme
"I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning." — Plato, Facebook meme
"I don’t make music for eyes. I make music for ears." — Adele
"I feel sorry for little babies. When a little baby is born into this world, he's confused! He's frightened! He needs something to cheer him up. The way I see it, as soon as a baby is born, he should be issued a ukulele." — Linus in Peanuts by Charles Shulz
"Soul work is not a high road. It’s a deep fall into an unforgiving darkness that won’t let you go until you find the song that sings you home." — McCall Ericson
"The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest." — Erik Satie
"The only love affair I have ever had was with music." — Maurice Ravel
"The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be." — Pete Seeger
"If we were a medical school, and you were here as a med student practicing appendectomies, you’d take your work very seriously because you would imagine that some night a 2 AM someone is going to waltz into your emergency room and you’re going to have to save their life. Well, my friends, someday at 8 PM someone is going to walk into your concert hall and bring you a mind that is confused, a heart that is overwhelmed, a soul that is weary. Whether they go out whole again will depend partly on how well you do your craft…" — Karl Paulnack, Director of Music Division and member of the piano faculty, Boston University (Facebook post)
"What rap did that was impressive was so show there are so many tone-deaf people out there." — Keith Richards, New York Daily News
Music can cure things medication never will.— Sun-Gazing.com
"You have to do something to make them want to leave. You could play that country music you like." — Reba, the T.V. show
"...the first generation of guys who played rock 'n' roll—who were thrown down. Buddy Holly, LIttle Richard, Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins, Gene Vincent, Jerry Lee Lewis. They played this type of music that was black and white. Extremely incendiary. Your clothes could catch fire. When I first heard Chuck Berry, I didn't consider that he was black. I thought he was a white hillbilly. Little did I know he was a great poet, too. And there must have been some elitist power that had to get rid of all these guys, to strike down rock 'n' roll for what it was and what it represented—not the least of all it being a black-and-and white thing.
"Art is how we docorate space; music is how we decorate time." — Facebook meme
"Things musicals taught me: All your problems will go away if you sing about it." — Facebook meme
"To sing is to bring to life." — Edith Piaf
"The devaluation of music and what it's now deemed to be worth is laughable to me. My single costs 99 cents. That's what a single cost in 1960. On my phone, I can get an app for 99 cents that makes fart noises — the same price as the thing I create and speak to the world with. Some would say the fart app is more important. It's an awkward time. Creative brains are being sorely mistreated." — Vince Gill
"Every illness is a musical problem and every cure has a musical solution." — Novalis
"Some people have lives. Some people have music." — John Green and David Levithan
"I love music. For me, music is morning coffee. It's mood medicine. It's pure magic. A good song is like a good meal—I just want to inhale it and then share a bite with someone else." — Hoda Kotb
"What we play is life." — Louis Armstrong
"Music is spiritual. The music business is not." — Van Morrison
"I'm much more comfortable singing than talking." — Kenny Rogers
"Music is the best solution to any problem." — Facebook meme
"Music: A mind-altering noise with the potential to induce joy, happiness, memories, bliss, merriment, and mirth. Ask your doctor if music is right for you. Common side effects may include uncontrolled toe-tapping, swaying side-to-side, smiling, off-key singing, a lack of volume control, finger snapping, and dancing." — Facebook meme
"Music is Life. That's why our hearts have beats." — Facebook meme
" 'My neighbor Alice Pierce is fond of singing folk music to her garden plants. Thinks it makes them grow or something.' The Major had often wondered how a wailing rendition of 'Greensleeves' would encourage greater raspberry production but Alice insisted that it worked far better than chemical fertilizers, and she did produce several kinds of fruit in pie-worthy quantitites. 'No sense of pitch, but plenty of enthusiasm,' he added." — Helen Simonson, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
"Music is well said to be the speech of angels." — Thomas Carlyle
"There's always joy, there's always hope, there's always a song." — Salli Ratts of Runaway Express
"Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable." — Leonard Bernstein
"The ancient Caral people on the coast of Peru had no weapons, only musical instruments. They understood that sharing elevated vibrations benefits all." — J.J.
Fraser
"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness." — Maya Angelou, contributed by Chris North
"The grass is always bluer on the other side of the banjo." — contributed by Stuart Tarbuck
"The women went berserk, to the accompaniment of 'When a Man Loves a Woman.' It was all bass and drums; the musical equivalent, Anna decided, of cheap aftershave." — Sue Margolis, Neurotica
"You know, I think music isn't something you do -- it's something you are." — Nancy Thorwardson
"From now on all of my guitar solos will be in morse code." — Jason Hicks
'Music is the emotional life of most people." — Leonard Cohen
"...as a bassist he could never really be a sideman. He was always the anchor. He drove the beat. even if it was behind Miles Davis'a horn." — Michael Connelly, Dragons
"Whatever instrument I play, I always try to keep it unreal." — Rob Schwimmer
"...she said ... in a previous life I'd been a native Montanan."
"It is when music is added that a film can come to life for a director. A live orchestra, playing the score as a conductor watches the film on a huge screen, often gives a fimmaker the first real glimpse of his soon-to-be-completed work. That's where the magic is." — Robert Wolff
"Music is the framework around the silence." — Miles Davis, contributed by Garian Vigil
"Is the circle of fifths a drinking game?" — Mike Burns
"Sitting together and listening to music can be bonding. Taking care of someone who can't communicate can make a caregiver feel lonely and unable to relate, but music can provide a way to connect that is profoundly meaningful.
"Musicians are some of the most driven, courageous people on the face of the earth. They deal with more day-to-day rejection in one year than most people do in a lifetime. Every day, they face the financial challenge of living a freelance lifestyle, the disrespect of people who think they should get real jobs, and their own fear that they'll never work again. Every day, they have to ignore the possibility that the vision they have dedicated their lives to is a pipe dream. With every note, they stretch themselves, emotionally and physically, risking criticism and judgment. With every passing year, many of them watch as the other people their age achieve the predictable milestones of normal life - the car, the family, the house, the nest egg.
"If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams." — Yann Martel, Author's Note, Life of Pi
"'If any of you on your journeys see her—shout to me, whistle . . .' he sang, and it became a habit for audiences to shout and whistle in response to those lines. There was nowhere he could hide in such a song that had all of its doors and windows open, so that he could walk out of it artlessly, the antiphonal responses blending with him as if he were no longer on stage." — Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero
"'I don't work, I appear'—he remembered the words of Django Reinhardt's and imagined the great man slipping out from the shadows and disappearing efficiently into his craft. The alternative was to arrive, as most musicians did, like an eighteenth-century king entering a city...." — Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero
"[Laleh] Mehran and a sound designer put together a soundscape that melds sacred songs, ambient noise from a bazaar and an American shopping mall, the sounds of helicopters, bees and more into a sonic “soup” that is equally soothing and hypnotic. Inside the cube, a deeper rumbling aids further reflection." — Greg Glasgow, "Mass media," University of Denver Magazine, Fall 2102
"A song will outlive all sermons in the memory." — Henry Giles, contributed by Rick Jones
"So my neighbor came knocking on my door at 2:00 am! Fortunately for him I was still up playing my bagpipes." — Bill Donaldson
"I think of myself as a serious artist. Sometimes you can get in your head too much about that and forget that you have to have fun. I’ve been guilty in my career about that at times. But the more I thought about it, the more I thought I didn’t want anybody else to have a hit with it!" — Tim McGraw talking about "I Like It, I Love It," quoted by By Craig Shelburne in "Tim McGraw Earns His Freedom," American Songwriter May / June 2012
"If I practice Cherokee along with backing tracks would it be Chereoke?" — Rob Schwimmer
"Caution. Exposure to music may cause sudden outbursts of joy, happiness, energy, creativity, awareness and spontaneous healing. Handle at your own risk." — unknown
"I've forgotten more about music than I ever knew..." — Rob Schwimmer
"The music has to come from bluegrass first. We always said back in the '70s that if you want to play newgrass you have to go through the school of bluegrass. You know, maybe Jack Black can make a movie now called School of Bluegrass . That would be cool." — Sam Bush
"Life is a lot like jazz, it's best when you improvise." — George Gershwin
"Art does not explain." — Chuck Cannon
"There's something about comedy, funny things, that people want to pass them along. Serious things and personal things are much more privately enjoyed. That's why there are not a lot of sad viral videos." — Jonanthan Coulton, quoted by Nick A. Zaino III in "Jonathan Coulton: Weird Science," American Songwriter March / April 2012
"I like Kris Kristofferson the same way I like Bob Dylan or the same way I like Johnny Mercer. To me all the stuff we're doing — with the exception of a few of the kind of snarkier numbers — are just part of the American songbook. It's no different than covering a standard by George Gershwin to me. You're just expressing the same sentiment, with some harmony and melody." — Richard Julian, quoted by Evan Schlansky in "Role Models: The Little Willies," American Songwriter March / April 2012
"You certainly don't hear any country music on pop radio today. But for a while you did, and it was a lovely thing to have all the different genres of music cohabitating the Top 40 — the folk sound, The Beatles, the British sound, the Motown sounds, that kind of light country — it was a welcome relief after a few hard rock records. Everyone was sharing the airwaves, and I think it was a beautiful time for American music." — Jimmy Webb, quoted by Allen Morrison in "Glen Cambell: Memory Maker," American Songwriter January / February 2012
"Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny." — Frank Zappa, contributed by Rick Jones
"Music can happen anywhere...magical... " — Scott Dahms
"I write very sporadically. I write sometimes three things in a week and then nothing for a year. I make a space for it but I don't push it. They just come and they come." — David Crosby, interviewed by Plum at the Aspen Writer's Foundation "Lyrically Speaking" seminar, 2008
"Sometimes the entire thing comes out in one burst. Sometimes you hack away at a thing for years before you get something that satisfies you." — David Crosby, interviewed by Plum at the Aspen Writer's Foundation "Lyrically Speaking" seminar, 2008
"You tend to write as you get older about family love more than you write about romantic love or ooh baby. … The stuff that you want to celebrate about humanity has always been there and probably always will be." — David Crosby, interviewed by Plum at the Aspen Writer's Foundation "Lyrically Speaking" seminar, 2008
“A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” — Maya Angelou, contributed by Betty Spreen
"Practice, practice, practice ... but not near the neighbors." — Barbara Stewart, How to Kazoo
"Albert Einstein was know to have played the violin, the musical spoons, and the kazoo, not necessarily simultaneously." — Barbara Stewart, How to Kazoo
"...the kazoo is to music what the full body cast is to ballet." — Ben Fanton, "Can You Kazoo?," Sky 1986
"Kazoophony(R) [is] the world's largest kazoo quartet, an honor it holds mainly due to the fact that it has five members." — Ben Fanton, "Can You Kazoo?," Sky 1986
" The tours that have been undertaken by Kazoophony(R have tended to be little adventures in themselves, including an appearance in Colorado where they accidentally set the bushes on fire during their version of the 1812 Overture (which they call the '1813 Overture'), and a TV appearance when a sparkler ignited [Barbara] Stewart's sleeve during the 'Stars and Stripes Forever And Ever ... And So Forth.'" — Ben Fanton, "Can You Kazoo?," Sky 1986
"...they've...provoked audience reactions somewhat similar to those seen at Tom Jones concerts. In the case of the barefoot members of Kazoophony(R, audiences have taken to throwing socks,'" — Ben Fanton, "Can You Kazoo?," Sky 1986
"I think the kazoo and chocolate-chip cookies have a lot in common. All you need is a mouth to appreciate either one." — Wally Amos (of Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookies), quoted by Ben Fanton in "Can You Kazoo?," Sky 1986
"You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear." — Oscar Wilde, contributed by Jodi Boyce
"If ya ain't got it in ya, you can't blow it out" — Louis Armstrong, contributed by Rick Jones
"Desplat says music and film 'are completely merged in my brain.' When a score informs the filmmaking process and vice versa, as it did in The King's Speech, the result is a truly collaborative creative effort." — Lisa Zhito, "Alexandre Desplat Brings Music to 'The King's Speech'," BMI MusicWorld, Summer 2011
"Omar credits the interconnectivity fostered by the digital age for his mega stardom and the fact that his songs now become, in his words, 'iconic songs,' accessible and widely popular all over the world. It doesn't hurt that the songs in question are also expertly crafted smashes, whose grooves transcend language and locale." — Joy Ramirez, "Don Omar: King and Kingmaker," BMI MusicWorld, Summer 2011
"Wonder if anyone will be scared, i'm going to be a banjo player for Halloween..!" — Sylvia
Murray
"Without a song, each day would be a century." — Mahalia Jackson, contributed by Rick Jones
"Music in the soul can be heard by the universe." — Lao Tzu, contributed by Rick Jones
"Stolen from my friend Omar (and Voltaire, of course): 'Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.'" — Deb Switzer
"The worst nightmare about music is still way better than the best dream I've had about work." — Jim Fischer
"People make up a lot of reasons not to play music." — Martin Gilmore
"I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to play on it, which are bound to wake up an demand attention someday. Therefore you who rail at such that disturb your slumbers with unsuccessful and demoralizing attempts to subjugate a guitar, beware! For sooner or later your own time will come." — Mark Twain, contributed by Lonnie Lewis "I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others." — James Taylor, contributed by Steve Clarke "If anyone could outwhine an Oklahoma windstorm, it was Merle Haggard singing about low-down women and low-life men." — Billie Letts, "The Honk and Holler Opening Soon" "Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme." —John Szarkowski, "Celebrating the American Earth / A Tribute to Ansel Adams" "It used to be that artists lost copyright protection of their work after a number of years, and the work would enter the public domain, where anyone could purchase reproduction rights for a one-time nominal fee. Public domain allowed arts groups of all sizes to perform, display or reproduce that artwork as often as they wanted. ... in 1989, many pieces of music, paintings, books and films that had een in the public domain regained copyright protection, meaning that anyone wanting to perform, display or publish a work must pay fees and receive permission from the original artist or his or her descendants to present that work." — Amber D'Angelo Na, "Music professor takes copyright case to the Supreme Court," University of Denver Magazine, Fall 2011 "Composers live to have their music heard. You could interiew any of a thousand living composers as ask them, 'One-hundred years from now, if you had a choice between your music being under copyright and not being played versus in the public domain and being played all over the world,' I guarantee all composers would say they want their music heard." —DU Music Professor Lawrence Golan, "Music professor takes copyright case to the Supreme Court," University of Denver Magazine, Fall 2011 "If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it
by one's conversation." — Oscar Wilde, contributed by Ed Skibbe "I love Beethoven. especially the poems." — Ringo Starr, contributed by Ed Skibbe 
"He has never been known to use a word that might
send a reader to the dictionary." — William Faulkner
(about Ernest Hemingway) "The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates." — Oscar Wilde, contributed by Ed Skibbe
"Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and
memory." — Oscar Wilde, contributed by Ed Skibbe "One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain." — Bob Marley, contributed by Rick Jones "...I realized that being totally self-taught allowed me to do things that a teacher would not have allowed me to do." — Francois Moutin, quoted by Washtub Jerry in "The Low Down on the Down Low "The highest point of music for me is to become in a place where there is no desire, no craving, wanting to do anything else. It is the best place you have ever been, and yet there is nothing there." — Terry Riley, quoted by Washtub Jerry in "The Low Down on the Down Low "...I tried very hard to forget all the stuff I'd been instructed to do at univresity. I found myself playing more often with so-called 'untrained' musicians, who I felt had more to offer." — David Leahy, quoted by Washtub Jerry in "The Low Down on the Down Low "In the phusical sense, 'playing a fret less instrument in tune' is an impossibility. Hence what we call 'playing in tune' is no more than an extremely rapid skilfully carried out improvement of the originally inexactly located pitch." — Carl Flesch, quoted by Washtub Jerry in "The Low Down on the Down Low "The virtuoso element in jazz playing, all those very fast runs in the upper extremes, simply doesn't appeal to me. That's why I don't want to make my concerto "virtuosic" in the sense of a technical show-off. I want a beautiful sound and a melodic and lyrical line. I am more interested in the way someone can play musically." — Gavin Bryars, quoted by Washtub Jerry in "The Low Down on the Down Low "The bass is the link between harmony and rhythm. It is the foundation of a band. It is what all the other instruments stand upon, but it is rarely recognized as that." — Victor Wooten, quoted by Washtub Jerry in "The Low Down on the Down Low "Being the foundation is what I live for, some people call it being in the pocket, some people call it a groove. I think it's the heartbeat. There's nothing that feels better than that." —Tommy Shannon, electric bass player, quoted by Washtub Jerry in "The Low Down on the Down Low "Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music." —Jimi Hendrix, quoted by Washtub Jerry in "The Low Down on the Down Low "...when I sing, I feel like I become a different person." — Choi, Sung-bong
"I'm just trying to unite the western crowd and the bluegrass crowd a little more. … I get to do that again on my new album, Tall Grass and Cool Water.... This is the first time I've had every song on an album be a Bluegrass and Cowboy Song at the same time." — Michael Martin Murphy, quoted by Don Cusic in " Martin Murphy … Rangeland Rebel," The Western Way Summer 2011
"Part of it is, I think, just to let people know you've got a record out there and that you're still alive requires more work than it used to, because the traditional radio, bug chains of record stores, all of that, that doesn't exist anymore." — Steve Earle, quoted by Jewly Hight in "Steve Earle Sees the Light," American Songwriter, July / August 2011
"If you surveyed a hundred typical middle—aged Americans, I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from the 'Beverly Hillbillies.'" — Dave Barry contributed by Rick Jones
"I'm not sure I ever pleased Ian [Buchanan] with my progress, but he continued to tolerate me. I had to work at everything that I did. Well, it wasn't work; it was fun actually." — Jorma Kaukonen on learning to play guitar, quoted by John Kruth in "Jorma Kaukonen: The Embrionic Journey Continues," Sing Out! Spring 2011
"With the bass it's another thing. I don't need to use alternate thumb—picking as much. Even though Jack says he loves it. My thought is that it might irritate him somewhat." — Jorma Kaukonen, quoted by John Kruth in "Jorma Kaukonen: The Embrionic Journey Continues," Sing Out! Spring 2011
"Another thing about a duet is that you've got the freedom to not to have to stick to a particular layer of harmony." — Kate Brislin, quoted by Alan Senauke in "Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin: Turning the Old Songs ... and Returning," Sing Out! Spring 2011
"Where words fail, music speaks." — Hans
Christian Andersen contributed by Suzie Solomon of
"When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren't." — Paul McCartney to Steve Martin, related by Steve Martin on the David Letterman Show
"I listen to the summer symphony outside my window. Truthfully, it's not a symphony at all. There's no tune, no melody, only the same notes over and over. Chirps and tweets and trills and burples. It's as if the insect orchestra is forever tuning its instruments, forever waiting for the maestro to tap his baton and bring them to order. I, for one, hope the maestro never comes. I love the music mess of it." — Jerry Spinelli, Love, Stargirl
"She was twenty and had come to realize that, though she had a voice, she wasn't a singer; that to endure and embrace the life of a singer demands a whole lot more than a voice." — James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk
"So, a guy calls the musician's guild to get a quote on a six piece band for a wedding.The rep says 'Off the top of my head, about two thousand dollars'. He says 'WHAT? FOR MUSIC?.' The rep responds 'I'll tell you what. Call the plumbers' union & ask for six plumbers to work from 6 to 12 o'clock on a Saturday night. Whatever they charge you...we'll work for half.' 'I get your point' he said'." — contributed by Michi Regier
"Nice try but you forgot to say Simon
says!" — Steve J.
"There is no cover charge for the show,
but if by chance any of you have any "spare change"
that is making your pockets feel uncomfortable, feel
free to donate it to the band's tip jar / container —
as — of — yet — undetermined —type." — Peter
Schwimmer
"Jonathan Byrd's new album "Cackalack" is on, and it's perfect. I don't just mean it suits the country — it's a beautiful album with all the right elements. Roots, fiddles, chickens, no overdubs." — Michi Regier
"The term 'The Big Apple' was coined
"It was Vivaldi's Mandolin Concerto, Francesca Abraham realized as the radio alarm went off. Lively, unrelentingly upbeat, it was the perfect tempo in which to start the day. Covering her head with a pillow, she reached out blindly and urgently, desperate to shut the damn thing off." — Naomi Ragen, The Ghost of Hanna Mendes
"He liked to think that Heaven was what each person wanted it to be. He could see no future in lying around on a fluffy white cloud and listening to somebody playing on a harp, a picture of Heaven he had seen numerous times in one form or another. Even if it was that way, his personal preference would have run more to the fiddle." — Elmer Kelton, The Good Old Boys
"... good music, regardless of the type and style will always be good music. The true test of good music is, does it stir your soul? ... When you listen, or play it (music) does it make your heart race, does it make the hair stand up on your body, does it make you want to dance, does it make you want to cry, and does it put a smile on your face. That's good music." — John Lawrence Talbert
"The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music." —— Lewis Thomas from Pronoia by Rob Brezsney Free Will Astrology
"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 Lonnie Slocum assured her the Martin was a good investment, even if she never learned to play it better than an acid head who was into heavy metal." — Dan Jenkins, Baja Oklahoma
"When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love, we become singers of grief and weavers of elegant description." — Martín Prechtel, "The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun"
"...Walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heartbreak. Trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless. The entertainment business. What voyeurs we have all become." — Magaret Atwood, "The Blind Assassin"
"...ever since [The Graduate], movies have
used source material—especially older rock and pop
songs—to help convey the emotional tenor of individual
scenes. ...
"The year I turned 50, I took drum lessons and later became the drummer in a band. I have been rocking ever since. Yes, a white—haired lady playing the drums makes folks do a double take, but I am still energetic, happy, productive, and, dare I say it, even cute! In many ways this is the most fun I've had in my life. Thanks for confirming that just because we're over 50 doesn't mean we're dead!" — Marla Stahl, The Mail, AARP The Magazine March&April 2010
"Life is too short for bad tone." — seen on a fiddle case at MidWinter Bluegrass Festival, Northglenn CO, February 2010
"Your music can be played easily and well by any half—stringed harper or fumble—fingered idiot. Not that I'm maligning your songs. It's just that they're an entirely different kettle of fish—to use a seamanly metaphor—to Domick's. Don't you judge your songs against his standard! More people have already listened to your melodies and liked them than will ever hear Domick's, much less like them." — Dragonsinger, Anne McCaffrey |
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