Musician Quotes

I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.
I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.
Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.
Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out.
My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me.
Nature was my kindergarten.
Saving was slow and painful.
Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed.
The blues - the sound of a sinner on revival day.
The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household.
Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony.
With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.
You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down.
Any old place I can hang my hat is home sweet home to me.
If I think something is beautiful, there must be somebody out there who will agree with me.
What I've learned is that it's okay to take from heroes, such as Debussy, but it has to be filtered through my own personality so that ultimately it's me.
When you go to the theater, if you're really involved in the play, you don't think about it - you're in it.
You never write down to the people - you write the best you can with the hope that someone else will feel the same way.
Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.
The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.
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