“Look, you come in here tomorrow, and anything you do with your right hand I'll do with my left.” Quote by Art Tatum
“The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayDoneMusicSongwritingRepetitionGood WayKnow It AllYou Think You Know Author:A. R. Rahman
“Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.” PeopleHardYoungResultsEffortMusicExampleSongwriting Author:Joseph Haydn
“Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows.” KnowsWritingGodBodyMusicKnowingSongwritingComposerGod KnowsComposingOnly God Knows Author:George Frideric Handel
“The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.” PeopleIfsFirstsPlayAbleTogetherOrderMusicBreakFieldsBarriersSongwritingBreaking DownInhibitions Author:Oscar Peterson
“Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I don't know why I am more interested in women, because I don't go to any psychiatrists, and I don't want to know why.” KnowsWantReasonProblemFacesStrongerSpectacularPsychiatrist Author:Pedro Almodovar
“Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play. If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.” PeopleIfsNeedsTryingPlayMusicPhilosophicalJazzSongwritingCerebralProloguePlaying Jazz Author:Oscar Peterson
“For me, songwriting is something that I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.” WritingTryingLittlesInspirationBitsWaitingMusicLittle BitSongwriting Author:Sean Lennon
“Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenge are events in life, not life itself.” ChallengesSadnessEventsMental HealthIllnessDisappointmentMental IllnessSevereEvents In Life Author:Richard G. Scott
“It all made sense - terrible sense. The panic she had experienced in the warehouse district because of not knowing what had happened had been superseded at the newsstand by the even greater panic of partial knowledge. And now the torment of partly knowing had yielded to the infinitely greater terror of knowing precisely” MadeKnowingGreaterHappenedTerribleMental HealthIllnessTerrorMental IllnessPanicNot KnowingTormentWarehouse Book:Sybil Source: Sybil
