Music Jazz Experience Life Quotes & Sayings

I've been an advocate against the view of the writer as a partitioned genius hanging in conceptual space, or up on a mountain, a bringer of Promethean fire, some unique transmission that comes out of nowhere. I prefer the opposite view - that writers come from somewhere. They read things, and they think about them, and they incorporate other people's thoughts. — Jonathan Lethem

Outside. Of course, he didn't know any other vets either. — J.L. Langley

Your life and my life have turned out, and once you get that, life goes on from a position of having turned out. That's called playing the game from win — Werner Erhard

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

As he walked past shops and teahouses he could still — Greg Egan

I'll respect your request for this evening. But remember, you are my possession, Olivia. You're my habit, and I'm not going down without a fight. — Jodi Ellen Malpas

It said a lot of things [...] because I was very upset about how Americans couldn't imagine what it was like to be something else, to be something else and proud of it. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Where do you even draw the line between genres? — Guy Pearce

always thought bringing a gun to a fistfight was just a good way to end up shot, instead of punched. — E.J. Wesley

In order for a musician to grow, he's got to pay his dues. Some musicians ask me, 'well, what do you mean? You're saying I have to 'starve' and pay all these dues just to play jazz?' And my answer to them is, well, to some degree, yes! Because in order to play jazz you have to live it. Those notes mean something. They don't just come from your brain, they come from your heart and soul too. And in order to have that heart and soul you have to experience life. So I relate my music to my life and my life style. You can't separate the two. — Woody Shaw

Never give up, and never give in. — Hal Newhouser

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. — Charlie Parker