“SPEAK OF TROUBLE highlights the abilities of Lowell Sostomi as singer/songwriter and brings together a talented band of musicians with amazing dexterity, loads of energy, and very original arrangements. Im impressed.” TogetherEnergySpeakAbilityTroubleBandMusicianOriginalsSingersLoadImpressedSongwritersArrangementsSinger SongwritersHighlightsDexterity Author:Gordon Lightfoot
“Making information free is survivable so long as only limited numbers of people are disenfranchised. As much as it pains me to say so, we can survive if we only destroy the middle classes of musicians, journalists, and photographers. What is not survivable is the additional destruction of the middle classes in transportation, manufacturing, energy, office work, education, and health care. And all that destruction will come surely enough if the dominant idea of an information economy isn't improved.” PeopleIfsLongIdeasEnoughCarePainEnergyNumbersClassEconomyMiddleInformationOfficeMusicianDestructionPhotographerHealth CareJournalistMiddle ClassDominantManufacturingTransportationDisenfranchisedOffice Work Book:Who Owns the Future? Source: Who Owns the Future?
“My preference is live performance. Because you get the feedback. There's an energy. It's live theater. That's why I think actors like that. You know, musicians need it, comedians definitely need it. It doesn't matter what size and what club, whether it's 30 people in the club or 2,000 in a hall or a theater. It's live, it's symbiotic, you need it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsMatterActorsEnergyMusicianPerformancesTheaterSizeClubsComedianHallsPreferenceFeedbackLive PerformanceLive Theater Author:Robin Williams
“I learned [playing Chuck Berry] that there's something to be said for the courage of conviction, that sense of belief, being bold enough to believe in your vision. And there's a quote that really fits his particular energy. It says - they say don't go where the path may lead, but go where there's no path and leave a trail. I think that's exactly what Chuck did, you know. It's an inspiration to a lot of folks, not just musicians, but people everywhere.” PeopleThinkingKnowsBelieveMaySaidEnoughInspirationBeliefEnergyVisionPathParticularFitMusicianFolksConvictionBelieve In YouTrailsChuckBerriesDid You Know Author:Mos Def
“That certain feeling happened to me in a big way quite often with the first King Crimson. Amazing things would happen-I mean, telepathy, qualities of energy, things that I had never experienced before with music. You can't tell whether the music is playing the musician or the musician is playing the music.” WayFirstsMeanFeelingsBigsHappensCertainEnergyQualityHappenedKingsMusicianMusic IsAmazing ThingsCrimsonTelepathyKing Crimson Author:Robert Fripp
“I'm a very typical yoga-practicing musician; I do it when I can. I'm not hardcore about it. A lot of my lyrics talk about celebrating life and working through pain. I think that's what yoga's about, getting rid of, moving energy and letting it flow through you.” ThinkingI CanPainMovingEnergyMusicianYogaFlowCelebrateTypicalHardcoreCelebrate Life Author:Brett Dennen
“Parenting changes your life, it changes how you hear yourself in relationship to others - which is part of the reason that a bunch of people in the rock community are sick of the goodwill and positive energy and love between these 45-year-old musicians who they preferred when they were 25 and taking stabs at each other.” PeopleYearsReasonEnergyCommunityLove IsRocksMusicianAnd LoveSickBunchChanging Your LifeGoodwillPositive Energy Author:Lars Ulrich
“Anybody who'd expend energy preventing people from hearing music seems not to understand the basic principal of making music in the first place. It's so antithetical to being a musician.” PeopleFirstsSeemsEnergyMusicianHearingPrincipalPreventingHearing Music Author:Jeff Tweedy
“What's totally terrifying is that, unlike a musician who has a musical instrument, or a painter that's got a canvas and a brush, acting is us. Our energy, our soul, our spirits. And it's so hard because it's so vulnerable. You're exposing everything.” SoulHardSpiritEnergyActingMusicianInstrumentsMusicalPainterCanvasBrushesExposingMusical Instruments Author:Jane Fonda
“Essentially, the popular musician in America must learn that his basic job is to entertain people, to make them forget their sorrows for a moment or two; in the same sense that any popular art form must aim at the same distraction value. Any such job as that is basically a young man's business. It takes a young man's energy to go traveling around the country, night after night in a different place, prancing and cavorting around in front of mobs of people all out to try to forget their problems for an evening. And for a young man it can be a good enough way of life, if he happens to like it.” PeopleIfsMenWayTryingArtTwoDifferentCountryEnoughMomentsProblemHappensJobsAmericaFormYoungNightValuesEnergyForgetFrontsSorrowMusicianAimEveningYoung ManGood EnoughDistractionDifferent PlacePopular MusicPrancing Author:Artie Shaw
“We always have a basic structure for a piece of music, but we encourage the musicians to elaborate on whatever they feel at that particular moment. There's a definite conversation happening on stage. I think it is very important for us as creative musicians, to instantaneously describe any energy that is visible at that time.” ThinkingFeelsImportantMomentsEnergyCreativePiecesStageParticularConversationMusicianHappeningsStructureVisibleDefinite Author:Lisa Gerrard
“I think every musician is different, every artist is different, and in a perfect world people would be able to pursue their own path and have the inspiration and the drive to, and the energy and dedication to take their path to its fruition. I don't really believe in formulas.” PeopleThinkingWorldBelieveDifferentInspirationWould BeAbleArtistEnergyPerfectPathMusicianPursueFormulasDedicationA Perfect WorldFruition Author:Emily Haines
“I know not everyone is a musician, but it's important to find that craft and put all of your energy into that. It's about leaving the bad vibes and going to where the good vibes are.” KnowsImportantEnergyMusicianLeavingCraftsVibesGood VibesBad Vibes Author:Charlie Puth
“I came to writing kind of late. I was an engineer, and the one thing I've learned is that you have to steer a project in the direction of the maximum fun for you. You could say lively energy, or you have to try to be intrigued. Basically, if you were a musician and you were playing joylessly, nobody would want to hear you.” WritingTryingKindEnergyFunMusicianLivelyIntrigued Author:George Saunders
“The anti-nuke movement has important and far-reaching implications for grassroots organizing. It can unite kids and musicians, everybody, whether they're leftist or rightist, or radical, or Republican, because energy is energy. But in fact, it is a real political struggle - it shows people that it's big business against the people.” PeopleImportantRealFactsShowsBigsKidsPoliticalEnergyStruggleMovementRepublicanMusicianRadicalReachingImplicationsBig BusinessLeftistsGrassrootsNukesPolitical Struggle Author:Bonnie Raitt
“Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.” IfsEnergyFailingLateMusicianToo LateDentistAccountants Author:Peter Tork