“You don't see the European classical musicians allowing the music of Bach, Brahms, or Beethoven to become extinct. That music has gone on for centuries and centuries. We have the same obligation. Why do we have to become so 'hip' that we can say, 'Bebop is square,' or "New Orleans is square'? This, to me, is a shame.” GoneCenturyMusicianShameObligationHipsAllowingSquaresNew OrleansClassical MusicBrahmsClassical MusiciansBebop Author:Rahsaan Roland Kirk
“It's so crazy because kids that wrote to me when they were 14 years old are still in my life. A lot have gone on to become musicians and artists in their own right who inspire me now.” YearsStillsKidsArtistGoneCrazyInspireMusician Author:Kathleen Hanna
“Light threatens, is active, is gone, so it is with a song.” LightSongMusicGoneMusicianActive Book:Collected Poems 1912-1944 Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
“I've done an incredible amount of painters. It's an area, for me, where there's more mystery left. I've photographed so many musicians, I've been in studios so often, I know the whole process. The mystery's gone from it. I think it's important to keep mystery into our lives. There's a longing connected with it.” ThinkingKnowsImportantDoneWholeLeftProcessGoneOur LivesMysteryAmountMusicianAreasLongingIncrediblesStudiosConnectedPainter Author:Anton Corbijn
“Learning how to record has been super empowering for me, because I spent so many years going into the studio and watching other people do it. I guess a lot of musicians have gone through this because now recording is really available for everybody.” PeopleYearsHas BeensGoneRecordsMusicianStudiosAvailableEmpowering Author:Julia Kent
“The cliché of that sort of wasted, renegade, drugged-out musician of the '70s is kind of dead and gone now. And I suppose that a lot of people still keep relying on that, or some kind of image to perpetuate something that they think they're supposed to sound like. But that kind of takes you away from real inspiration and, you know, real artistic discovery of the individual.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindStillsRealInspirationIndividualSoundGoneMusicianDiscoveryArtisticRenegades Author:Chrissie Hynde
“Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago.” YearsFormSongThreeLeftGoneMinutesPeriodsMusicianYears AgoMovedStudiosConnectedBubblesRock N RollTime Travel Author:Tom Waits
“The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.” LongSaidImportantNightMemoriesMusicGoneMusicianSingingHotJazzFolksLong AgoYardsMoonlightJazz MusicJazz Musician Author:Louis Armstrong