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Musicians On Music
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"The future? I don't know. Through all of it, up and down, it's the song. It's always been the song."
- U. Utah Phillips
(a week before he died May 23, 2008)
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"Perhaps it is music that will save the world."
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"Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out
of your horn." - Charlie Parker
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"Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history." -Pete Seeger
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"Music should never be harmless."
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"I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others."
- James Taylor
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"Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable."
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“Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters
in the end.” - Kris Kristofferson
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"Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart." -Pablo Casals
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"Too many pieces of music finish too long
after the end." - Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
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"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it."
- John Lennon
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"... Just as Jesus created wine from water, we humans are capable on transmuting emotion into music..." - Carlos Santana
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"There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself." -Johann Sebastian Bach
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"It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page." - Joan Baez |
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"I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could." - James Taylor |
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"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life." - Ludwig van Beethoven |
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"We must begin to make what I call "conscious choices," and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs."
- John Denver |
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"My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply
take as much as you require."
-- Edward Elgar
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"Music is Love in search of a word." - Sidney Lanier
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"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line." - Oscar Lavant, Pianist
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Other Music Quotes
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"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is." - William P. Merrill |
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"Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives
that they have heard it."
- Henry David Thoreau |
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"You are the music while the music lasts."
- T. S. Eliot |
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“During my own lifetime, one of the most dismal social changes of our world has been the disappearance of singing as part of human life and the work that
has to be done. People used to sing, now you scarcely hear anyone even whistle. The world is poorer for the loss. There is nothing like music for giving one a
sense of solidarity, and it lightens both labor
and the heart.”
- Henry Beston in "Northern Farm"
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"Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!"
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it
were left to itself."
- Henry Ward Beecher
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"We don't like their sound, and guitar music
is on the way out."
- Decca Recording Company
rejecting the Beatles, 1962
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"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung."
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"Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best."
- Henry Van Dyke
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"Without music, life would be a mistake."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
- Victor Hugo
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"Such the price the gods exact for song, to become what we sing."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| Musicians On Life |
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"Too many good people are doing too many good things for me to afford the luxury of being pessimistic."
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"Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end." - Kris Kristofferson |
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“It's a great opportunity for all of us to raise the ante and the attention for something that needs focus. It's the cosmic food chain -- that we get so much and we give something back -- it's what we're supposed to do.”
-Bonnie Raitt
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"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do." - Bob Dylan
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"You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going
to live...Now." - Joan Baez
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"As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more." - Neil Young |
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"You have to choose whether to love yourself or not."
- James Taylor |
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"Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry."
- John Lennon |
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"Anything worth doing is worth overdoing." - Mick Jagger |
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"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose."
- Kris Kristofferson |
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"He not busy being born is busy dying." - Bob Dylan |
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"Commit yourself to do whatever it is you can contribute in order to create a healthy and sustainable future - the world needs you desperately. Find that in yourself and make a commitment - that is what
will change the world."
- John Denver |
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"No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it." - Grace Slick |
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“There has never been a time on Earth like we see today. What we need are more ways to experience our interconnectedness - it is a precursor to deep love. So in this quickening light, with the dawn of each new
day, let us look for love. Let us no longer struggle. Let us ever become who we most want to be. As we begin to be who we truly are, the world will be a better place.” - John Denver |
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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
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Nature, Art, and Other Quotes
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"The Earth is not dying - she is being killed. And those who are killing her have names and addresses."
- Utah Phillips
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"I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the 'affirmation of life.'" --Ansel Adams |
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“I realize again that one of the great functions of any art is the constantly renewed revelation of the possible greatness of the human spirit.”
- Henry Beston in "Northern Farm" |
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“A part of our obligation to our own being and to our descendants is to study life and our conditions, searching always for the authentic
underpinnings of hope. “
- Wendell Berry |
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“…citizen responsibility has always been the vital measure of difference. Virtually every tract of land worth saving that we now take for granted has been set aside because people cared –individuals who organized groups and campaigned through the political process, without regard for personal reward. “
- Michael Frome in Foreword of “Wild Nevada" |
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“Art washes away from the soul
the dust of everyday life.”
-- Pablo Picasso |
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“The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but
live right in it, under its roof.”
-- Barbara Kingsolver
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“To care is neither conservative nor radical,
it is a form of consciousness." - John Ralston Saul
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"You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing,there will be no results." – Gandhi
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“Home is where all justice begins.”
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“When we begin to consider Nature as something to be robbed greedily like an unguarded treasure, or used as an enemy, we put ourselves in thought outside of Nature of which we are inescapably a part. Be it storm and flood, hail and fire, or the yielding furrow and the fruitful plain, an alliance it is, and that alliance is a cornerstone of our true humanity.”
- Henry Beston in “Northern Farm”
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“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” -- Andy Warhol
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"For a nation to be, in the truest sense, patriotic, its citizens must love their land with a knowing, intelligent, sustaining, and protective love. They must not, for any price, destroy its health, its beauty, or its productivity.
And they must not allow their patriotism to be
degraded to a mere loyalty to symbols or any
present set of officials."
-- Wendell Berry
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“Must the act of birth be seen only as a replacement for
ourselves? Can we not also conceive of birth as an act of the imagination, giving body to a new way of seeing? Do children need to be our own to be
loved as our own?”
-- Terry Tempest Williams in “Red”
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“I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything; but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.”
- Helen Keller
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"How can artists and writers manage to join in the defense of the planet and wild nature? Writers and artists by their very work "bear witness." They don't wield financial, governmental, or military power. However, at the outset they were given, as in fairy tales, two "magic gifts": One is "the mirror of truth." Whatever they hold this mirror up to is shown in its actual form, and the truth must come out. May we use that mirror well!
The second is a "heart of compassion," which is to say the ability to feel and know the pains and delights of other people, and to weave that feeling into their art. For some this can extend to all creatures and to the earth itself...Poems, novels, plays, with their great deep minds of story, awaken the Heart of Compassion. And so they confound the economic markets, rattle the empires, and open us up to the actually existing human and non-human world. Performance is art in motion; in the moment; both enactment and embodiment. This is exactly what nature herself is."
-- Gary Snyder in "Writers and the War Against Nature"
sent to us by artist, Pat Musick
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