“I've always considered transcribing to be an invaluable tool in the development of one's musical ear and, over the years, I have spent countless glorious hours transcribing different kinds of music, either guitar-oriented or not.” YearsKindDifferentHoursDevelopmentToolsEarsGuitarMusicalGloriousDifferent KindsInvaluableDifferent Kinds Of MusicTranscribing Author:Steve Vai
“When you have so many projects to nurture, one or two get real excited and raise their hands. The reaction from it tells when it's time and where to go. I usually have about a half a dozen titles in development; researchers researching and people doing cover. I'm exploring musical vocabularies I want to explore, different genres, and constantly reading things.” PeopleWantTwoDifferentRealHandsReadingHalfDevelopmentProjectsRaisesMusicalExcitedReactionsTitlesGenreDozenExploringNurtureVocabularyGet RealResearchersDifferent Genres Author:Frank Wildhorn
“In terms of brain development, musical performance is every bit as important educationally as reading or writing.” WritingImportantReadingBitsTermBrainDevelopmentPerformancesMusicalBrain DevelopmentReading Or WritingMusical Performance Author:Oliver Sacks
“Music, to me, was - is - representative of everything I like most in life. It's beautiful and fun, but very rigorous. If you wanted to be good you had to work like crazy. It was a real relationship between effort and reward. My musical life experiences were just as important to me, in terms of forming my development, as my political experiences or my academic life.” IfsImportantRealWantedBeautifulPoliticalFunTermEffortCrazyDevelopmentRewardsMusicalBe GoodAcademicLife ExperienceRepresentativesReal RelationshipMusical LifeAcademic Life Author:William J. Clinton
“The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived notoriety, extreme depression, a yielding to the suicidal impulse.” LittlesDevelopmentCapacityEssenceMusicalExtremesPopsImpulseShockSuicidalWretchedImmaturityPseudoStardomShort LivedNotoriety Author:Anthony Burgess
“My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died.” DevelopmentDiedMusicalFrank Author:Alex Trebek
“If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing the evolution of musical language, whose progressive development comes about through transgressions of a given era's perceptual habits."” IfsWritingAbleLanguageGivenTermMusicDangerDevelopmentEvolutionHabitMusicalErasProgressiveComposerListenersFlirtingTransgressionFreezing Book:Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music Source: Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music