Carey Bowden - General Music
Page Navigation
-
Why Learn to Play Music? Click on the link below for current facts on how music education can enhance your life.
http://www.supportmusic.com/SMBrochure_eng.pdf
Advocacy Essentials from the Kennedy Center:
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/connect/aes.cfm
Quotes:
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
-Victor Hugo
Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.
-Anonymous
Don't play what's there; play what's not there.
-Miles Davis
Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.
-Leonard Bernstein
Music washes away from the soul the dust of every day life.
-Berthold Auerbach
Music is only love looking for words.
-Lawrence Durrell
Where words fail, music speaks.
-Hans Christian Andersen
A nation creates music-the composer only arranges it.
-Bela Bartok
If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.
-Jose Bergamin
Study Bach, there you will find everything.
-Johannes Brahms
Composing is like driving down a foggy road...
-Benjamin Britten
A child sings before it speaks, dances almost before it walks, music is with us from the beginning.
-Pamela Brown
Music to me is like breathing-I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music.
-Ray Charles
Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly, two.
-Frederic Chopin
Do not fear mistakes, there are none.
-Miles Davis
Playing "bop" is like playing scrabble with all the vowels missing.
-Duke Ellington
A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
-Benny Green
People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.
-Paul Hindemith
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
-B.B. King
If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.
-Carl Perkins
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
-Plutarch
A painter paints pictures on canvas, but musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Stokowski