I remember one day being in a music history class and a white woman was the teacher. She was… saying that the reason black people played the blues was because they were poor and had to pick cotton. In response to that comment, I said, “I’m from East St. Louis, and my father is rich, […]
Music Quotes
When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.
I’ll play it first and tell you what it is afterwards.
Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
That’s it! That’s the noise I want to make! (statement when he saw Pete Seeger on TV playing banjo)
In experiments, the plants grew lush foliage and large roots when baroque music was played to them, and they leaned toward the music as if toward the sun.
Groups are out, four piece groups with guitars particularly are finished. The boys won’t go, Mr. Epstein. We know these things. You have a good business in Liverpool. Stick to that. (Decca Records, 1962)
When I was nine, I got “With The Beatles,” and my grandma bought me a honky old drum and an old cymbal. That’s it, isn’t it; what more is there? A drum, a cymbal and “With The Beatles.” Has the world really come on much further?
A decisive moment in the history of Western civilization. (About “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” in the London Times, 1977)
