Musician Quotes

When you can hear a violinist, that is better than you, then you learn from him, because if you play with somebody who is worse than you, then you go down.
You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself.
A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.
But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.
I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage.
I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.
I was trying to do Billie Holiday, because she was the voice to be heard at that time.
If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing one of my songs that I recorded 50 years ago.
There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through.
There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we were dealing with, but nowadays, anybody who has a need, and can find the need, they can sing the blues.
Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; but I wish it was possible there were other ways to have them understand this music was here before they came, and the reason that it was here.
We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.
When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.
When I saw all of the people I have known all these years, when we got together, it was scary because B.B King and I lived in the same place in Nevada.
And I used to assemble the family to hear because I thought that they were so good that even from the point of view of enjoyment people shouldn't miss them, and I got every word of his that I could, and I could see by hard argument there was only the one way for it.
Are you really going to see Lewis? One of the few people it's worth getting excited over, I think. I know he is a good poet. I daresay he never heard of me, but I wish you would tell him that his work is the joy of my life.
I am much interested and honoured by what you tell me of C. S. Lewis.
I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn't just fall into it in adolescent emotion, and I was satisfied at every point that it was the one way and the hard way to do things.
I would do any honest thing under the sun to know C. S. Lewis, and so am very grateful to you.
It seems to me that in our lifetime we have passed from the wreck of liberal humanism to the beginning of a new recognition of dogma: isn't it rather tremendous?
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