“Whether it's an attorney or a bond trader or a journalist, or a musician or pastor, you want to do your best. You don't want to seek acclaim. You don't want to seek awards. You want to seek to do your best at what God's given you.” WantGivenMusicianJournalistAwardsPastorAttorneyTradersAcclaim Author:Louie Giglio
“the writer must resist this temptation [to quote] and do his best with his own tools. It would be most convenient for us musicians if, arrived at a given emotional crisis in our work, we could simply stick in a few bars of Brahms or Schubert. Indeed many composers have no hesitation in so doing. But I have never heard the practice defended; possibly because that hideous symbol of petty larceny, the inverted comma, cannot well be worked into a musical score.” IfsWellsWould BeGivenPracticeHeardEmotionalMusicianToolsCrisisSticksMusicalBarsTemptationSymbolsScoreComposerQuotationsPettyConvenientHideousHesitationInvertedBrahmsSchubertLarceny Book:Streaks of life Source: Streaks of life
“Alan Lomax is the person who I think should be given major credit for what has been called the "Folk Song Revival." My father participated with him because my father was a musicologist and urged trained musicians to learn about "the vernacular."” ThinkingShouldPersonsHas BeensSongFatherGivenMajorsMusicianFolksCreditRevivalVernacularFolk Songs Author:Pete Seeger
“There are only so many letters in the alphabet. When I talk to young musicians or authors and they ask for advice, I say, You gotta learn all the letters of your own personal alphabet. With music, you need to know all the different kinds of music and everything in and around your given instrument.” KnowsNeedsKindDifferentYoungAsksGivenAdviceMusicianLettersInstrumentsDifferent KindsAlphabetDifferent Kinds Of MusicLetters Of The Alphabet Author:David Lee Roth
“People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.” PeopleInspirationalHelpingGivenSoundMusicTalentProduceMusicianInstrumentsMusicalTunesMagnificentEmanateMusical Instruments Author:Franz Grillparzer
“genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man, the strongest known link between the material life we have and the spiritual life that we can only guess at. Every great poet, painter, or musician - every inventor or man of science, every fine actor or orator, comes to us as the exponent of something diviner than we know. We cannot understand it, but we feel it, and acknowledge it.” KnowsMenFeelsMaySpiritualFormActorsGivenKnownPoetMaterialsFineGeniusMusicianUniqueOriginalsPainterAcknowledgeStrongestLinksSpiritual LifeInventorGreatest GiftsGreat PoetOratorsExponents Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
“I would say that for the younger musicians, technical proficiency is necessary and a given these days. But the study and the way you function in society, your beliefs and the way you live, that is where you will find a real musician, a real artist.” WayRealArtistBeliefGivenStudyMusicianFunctionThese DaysProficiencyReal Artists Author:David Finckel
“The concern of the musician is to play the music. It is there demanding to be given sound to.” PlayGivenSoundMusicianConcern Author:Robert Fripp
“Audiences tend to dig the earlier stuff by any given musician, and the artists themselves always tend to prefer the thing that they're doing now.” ArtistGivenStuffAudienceMusician Author:Bradford Cox
“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.” LoveSpiritualityGivenLove IsMarriageRelationshipLove YouCouplePromiseMusicianRomanticAnd LoveTrue LoveForgottenDisappearLove LifeInspirational LoveValentineOur LoveValentine's DayI Love YouBoyfriendLoving SomeoneSinger SongwritersMarriage AdviceMatrimonyFamous LoveHeart LoveI Love HimThose We LoveWhen You Love SomeoneBeen In LovePerfect LoveCute LovePeace LoveSouvenirsValentines Day LoveLove For HerRomantic Valentines DayYour SoulmateHappy ValentinesHappy Valentines DayHappy LoveGiving LoveLove Is LifeValentines Day CardsBe My ValentineSoulmate LoveAmazing LoveBeatles LoveInspire LoveGreat BeatlesValentines GreetingsCelebrity RelationshipLove VowsCute BoyfriendPerfect MarriageBeatles PeaceThank You LoveLove And InspirationInspiration Love2 Word LoveGirl You LoveCute BoyLove Takes Time Author:John Lennon